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The nation’s auction market dived over the weekend on the back of a huge fall in Melbourne’s clearance rate.
CoreLogic recorded a final national clearance rate of 64.3%, down from the prior weekend’s 70.0%.
Sydney’s final clearance rate remained strong at 78.5% versus 81.3% the prior weekend, whereas Melbourne’s collapsed to just 49.1% from 59.9% the prior weekend.
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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.
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