Melbourne’s auction clearance rate rockets to 90%!

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So says the spruikers at the REIV:

Not so says CoreLogic, whose final auction clearance report recorded a clearance rate of 63.7% for Melbourne and 58.4% nationally:

SQM Research’s final clearance rate was even weaker at just 45.5% for Melbourne, well down on the pre-COVID high of nearly 70%:

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Accordingly, Louis Christopher ridiculed the result:

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Reader responses are also hilarious:

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Nice try REIV.

About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.