CoreLogic has released its final auction clearance rates for last week, with the final clearance rate remaining at a near six-year high of 79.3%, just a whisker below the prior week’s 79.6%. Clearances were also well up from the 73.9% final clearance rate recorded in the same time last year when the property market was also running hot.
As usual, clearance rates were driven by Sydney (85.3%) and Melbourne (76.4%), which are the nation’s dominant auction market; although results were near universally strong: