Source:  Realestate.com.au Brisbane has hit its tightest residential vacancy rate in 16 years, sitting at 1.1 per cent with just 3,878 homes available for rent, which experts warn will see rent spike. Brisbane’s fall from December’s 1.3 per cent vacancy rate meant there were about 1,000 fewer rentals available in January, with the figure also a 0.6 percentage point drop from the same time last year – amounting to 2,000 fewer vacancies. SQM Research managing director ...

Source:  Toowoomba Chronicle Toowoomba's rental crisis could push the cost of rent up by more than $5000 this year as the Garden City records the second lowest volume of vacant properties in 17 years. With a population of 171,000 housed in 66,000 dwellings, an estimated 22,000 of those make up Toowoomba’s total rental pool, according to property research firm Propertyology. Analysis of the city’s rental market has found just 81 dwellings are currently being advertised ...

Source:  Realestate.com.au Buyers have hit the 2022 property market with a running start according to new data from REA Group. In January, purchaser activity reached an highest and more house hunters searched in the $1 million plus price bracket than ever before. But despite the year beginning with a bang, this year’s housing market isn’t expected to match the unparalleled year that was. REA Group’s PropTrack Housing Market Indicators Report for February s...

Source:  Australian Property Journal AUSTRALIANS spent more than $688 billion on property over 2021, jumping a huge 57% from the first year of the global pandemic. According to PEXA’s Property and Mortgage Insights (PMI), the national aggregate value of property sale settlements was up by over half of the previous year’s total, with a 32% bump to annual growth for property sale settlement volumes. “In what has been a challenging time for many Australians amidst lockd...

Source: CoreLogic Capital cities, regional areas, houses and units all saw an increase in rents last quarter, culminating in the highest calendar year growth rate since 2007. 

CoreLogic’s quarterly Rental Review shows the national rental index increased 1.9% during the December quarter, a repeat of the figures recorded in the September quarter. 

Despite quarterly growth rates easing since peaking in March at 3.2%, the national index recorded its highest annual growth r...

Source: CoreLogic CoreLogic’s national measure of housing values rose by 1.1% in January, up 10 basis points from the December result, when the national index was up 1.0%. Five of the eight capital cities recorded a modest uptick in the monthly rate of growth, including Melbourne, which had posted a slight decline in values in the previous month. However, the quarterly change continued to soften, reflecting the longer-term trend of slowing growth across most regions of Australia.

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Source:  Domain Brisbane house prices have hit a record median high of $792,065, following one of the biggest quarterly price hikes in two decades. Figures from Domain's latest House Price Report reveal house prices in the Sunshine State capital jumped 10.7 per cent over the three months to December – the steepest hike clocked across the city in almost 18 years. It was also the second largest price leap across the country for the quarter, with only Canberra surpassing Brisba...

Source: REIQ Queensland is experiencing record low vacancy rates with most regions remaining much tighter than what the Real Estate Institute of Queensland (REIQ) classifies as “healthy” (2.6 to 3.5%) during 2021. The REIQ’s Residential Vacancy Report released today, revealed that vacancy rates got as tight as a mere 0.1 per cent in Maryborough in 2021, hovering just above zero in a record low across the history of the report. In the neighbouring region of Hervey Bay, vac...

Source: Domain House and unit prices are at new record highs House prices reached a new record high at $792,065, after leaping 10.7 per cent over the quarter and 25.7 per cent annually, the steepest increase in almost 18 years. For the first time since mid-2016 unit prices are at a new record high of $416,033, after rising 2 per cent over the quarter and 3.5 per cent annually. House prices have risen seven times faster than units over the past year. This is the largest divergence on rec...

Source:  CoreLogic Australian housing values grew 22.1% last year and the market is showing signs this extraordinary rate of growth – not seen since the 1980s – is slowing across most of the capital cities. Yet as the rate of dwelling value appreciation slows, capital city and broad ‘rest of state’ markets are yet to peak, causing plenty of speculation about whether this will occur in 2022 and mark the start of a downturn.  CoreLogic’s Research Direc...