CoreLogic: Australia’s auction market has never been this hot

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CoreLogic has released its Quarterly Auction Market Review, which reveals that Australia’s combined capital city auction clearance rate was the strongest on record in the March quarter of 2021:

CoreLogic’s weekly auction clearance rate across the combined capitals has been at or above 80% just five times since 2008, and four of those were in March 2021. The week ending 28th March 2021 recorded the highest auction clearance rate on record (83.1 per cent), while also being the busiest week for auctions since late March 2018.

Eliza Owen, CoreLogic’s Head of Research Australia, says “The strength in auction clearance rates through the March quarter corroborate the rise in demand seen across the market more broadly, as dwelling values in the combined capital cities shot up 5.6% in the quarter. This was illustrated through the month of March, when the combined capital cities saw a record high clearance rate of 83.1%, against 3,840 scheduled auctions (the highest volume since March 2018).”

Australian auction clearance rate

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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.