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  • Core Logic Home Value Index August 2017

    Using the upgraded hedonic index methodology, the CoreLogic August home value index results for the month confirm a slowdown in housing market conditions in Sydney, while Hobart emerged as the country’s best performing capital city based on growth in dwelling values over the past twelve months. National dwelling values remained flat during August, with capital city values edging 0.1% higher.…

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    CoreLogic Property Pulse 24 August: Housing turnover remains low

    Housing turnover remains low despite strong selling conditions in Sydney and Melbourne, according to latest CoreLogic data. CoreLogic data confirms  over the 12 months to May 2017 only 4.8 per cent of all houses nationally actually sold, highlighting just how little stock sells in a given 12-month period. Across house sales over the past 12 months, Tasmania recorded the highest…

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    Darwin agent Adam McCann named top Raine & Horne salesperson

    Darwin sales agent Adam McCann was named Raine & Horne group’s top salesperson for this financial year. The leading Darwin firm commands 12 per cent market share of the property rental market and a 22 per cent share of the sales market. Mr McCann received his award at the 40th annual Raine & Horne Awards held at the Darwin Convention Centre…

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    CoreLogic home value index shows house prices jumped 1.5 per cent across capital cities in July

    Melbourne house prices jumped 3.1 per cent in July and have been the key driver in the 1.5 per cent increase in combined capital city dwelling values for the month. CoreLogic’s latest home value index shows house prices rose in Sydney by 1.4 per cent, while Canberra prices jumped by 2.4 per cent but fell in Brisbane (-0.6%), Perth (-1.3%)…

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    HIA: New home sales hit lowest level since 2013, while housing affordability continues to decline

    New home sales in Australia’s largest states hit their lowest level since October 2013, with sales sliding in both the detached house and multi-unit sides of the market, according to the latest HIA New Home Sales Report. New homes sales declined by 6.9 per cent in June compared with the previous month and were 11.9 per cent lower than the…

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    New listings higher than year ago while total listings lower: CoreLogic

    The number of new listings is higher than a year ago but the total number of listings is lower, according to CoreLogic data. The number of properties advertised for sale is now showing substantial differences between regional and capital city markets, as well as between individual capital cities. Research analyst Cameron Kusher noted that comparing the capital city and national…

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    CoreLogic Property Pulse: How did the housing market perform over the financial year?

    Research by CoreLogic has confirmed that over the past 20 financial years combined capital city dwelling values fell just twice. Over the last twelve months, CoreLogic found that combined capital city dwelling values increased by 9.6 per cent, which was actually greater than the 8.3 per cent rise over the 2015-16 financial year. According to research analyst Cameron Kusher, combined…

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  • Elite Agent

    Steve Carroll: Robots, Driverless Cars and the Need for Speed

    Ladies and gentlemen, in the future, when you get home from work, who would you rather have cook your dinner… your partner, or a robot programmed by Jamie Oliver? This was one of the opening questions from Steve Carroll in his keynote at this year’s Momentum events across Australia. Elite Agent’s Samantha McLean took notes and has unpacked some of…

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    Core Logic Home Value Index June 2017

    Capital city dwelling values rise 0.8% over June quarter, the slowest quarterly growth rate since dwelling values fell over December 2015 quarter. Despite a seasonally strong result over the month of June, the CoreLogic Hedonic Home Value series shows that momentum of capital gains over the second quarter of 2017 is losing steam. Highlights over the three months to June…

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    Census overview 2016: home ownership declining and renting on the rise

    Census data released yesterday revealed Sydneysiders spend the most on rent and mortgages in the country and, unsurprisingly, Sydney is the most expensive city to live in. The data shows that homeownership rates continue to decline, with a big shift in the proportion of people renting: 31 per cent of Australians owned their own home outright in 2016, compared to…

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  • Real Estate News

    Pain and Gain: The Best and Worst in the March Quarter

    According to the CoreLogic Pain & Gain March 2017 quarter report, nine out of 10 people (90.4%) who re-sold a property during the March 2017 quarter earned themselves a profit. Report Highlights 9.6% of dwellings sold for less than their previous purchase price over the first quarter of 2017. Proportion of dwellings selling for less than the previous purchase price…

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    ABS: Residential property prices rise 2.2 pc in March 2017 quarter

    Residential property prices rose 2.2 per cent in the March quarter 2017 according to figures released on Tuesday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). This was the fourth consecutive quarter of growth. Even though residential property prices increased in most capital cities, Sydney and Melbourne were the main drivers of the result. The price rises in Sydney (3 per…

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  • Elite Agent

    Purple Pain: Simon Whale

    COULD REAL ESTATE AGENTS actually owe a debt of gratitude to online disrupters? Property technology specialist Simon Whale from Reapit in the UK explains why he’s in a love-hate relationship with Purplebricks. I’m thinking of going on Shark Tank and asking for $50m for a unique time management tool that would save real estate agents many hours of their lives,…

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  • Real Estate News

    Multiple Indicators Point to a Softer Housing Market: CoreLogic

    The CoreLogic May Home Value Index results out today confirmed that the capital gains trend has slowed over recent months with dwelling values edging 0.4% higher over the three months ending May 2017. Highlights over the three months to May 2017: Best performing capital city: Adelaide +2.0% Weakest performing capital city: Canberra -1.5% Highest rental yields: Hobart houses with gross…

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    First National awards its high achievers in Fiji

    First National Real Estate’s highest achievers were presented with their General Excellence and Marketing Awards at the Intercontinental Fiji Golf Resort & Spa last Friday night. The awards dinner brought recognition to Australia’s top 2016 salespeople, property managers and administrators, and attracted more than 385 delegates from Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific. First National Real Estate’s chairman, David…

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  • Elite Agent

    The Market – Generous one day, brutal the next: Haesley Cush

    Last week, I was again reminded that the ‘affordability crisis’ is not a nationwide issue when I spent time with agents in Perth. Our Western Australian friends have faced a massive downturn in the market and there is no talk of frivolous breakfasts laden with avo and lattes with our comrades in the West. In speaking with the agents over…

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  • INDUSTRY NEWS

    Stock Levels Rise as Demand Slows

    Following years of frenetic activity in Australia’s hottest real estate markets, more signs are emerging that buyers might be ready to take a breather after CoreLogic reported stock levels are now outstripping demand in some cities. Months of Supply figures are used to predict how long it should take to clear volumes of stock currently on the market and found…

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    Capital gains ease and month-on-month growth conditions slow: CoreLogic

    Highlights over the three months to April 2017 Best performing capital city: Hobart +5.1 per cent Weakest performing capital city: Perth -2.4 per cent Highest rental yields: Hobart and Darwin houses with gross rental yield of 4.9 per cent and Hobart units at 5.4 per cent Lowest rental yields: Sydney and Melbourne houses with gross rental yield of 2.7 per…

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    The Answer Housing Affordability Challenge Is To Increase Housing Supply:HIA

    Australia needs supply not demand focused solutions to address our national affordability challenges, the Housing Industry Association said. HIA’s Deputy Managing Director, Graham Wolfe in a statement said any attempts to remove the demand for new housing would reduce supply, affordability and jobs. “While several measures announced today by Labor to address Australia’s housing affordability challenges provide a sensible approach…

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    Superannuation won’t help first time buyers get into the Sydney & Melbourne: CoreLogic

    First-time home buyers expecting to use superannuation savings as a deposit for a property in either Sydney or Melbourne may find both cities way too pricey and would be still locked out from the housing market, CoreLogic research analyst Cameron Kusher has said. Broadcaster ABC recently crunched the numbers and showed that based on the average earnings for a 25…

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    Housing Affordability Records Improvement: HIA

    The latest Housing Industry Association (HIA) report indicates that there has been a steady improvement in housing affordability during the opening months of 2017. HIA senior economist, Shane Garrett in a statement said that during the March 2017 quarter, the HIA Affordability index improved by 1.9 percent – and is 1.2 percent better than this time last year. “The improvement…

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    Home Values Rise To Unprecedented Levels says CoreLogic March Report

    Best performing capital city: Hobart +5.6 percent Weakest performing capital city: Darwin -3.1 percent Highest rental yields: Hobart & Darwin with gross rental yield of 5 percent and Hobart units at 5.6 percent Lowest rental yields: Sydney & Melbourne houses with gross rental yield of 2.7 percent and Sydney units at 3.7 percent Most expensive city: Sydney with a median…

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    Demand for Darwin rentals returning to all-time highs

    Demand for Darwin rental properties appears to be booming, with Raine & Horne Darwin saying they have leased more than 60 properties in February this year. “This result follows the 60 properties we leased to tenants in January,” Glenn Grantham, General Manager, Raine & Horne Darwin said. “Consequently, rental yields for Darwin houses have improved and are currently 5.1 percent, which…

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    REIA: Property prices reflect state economies

    The median house price across Australian capital cities has risen by 4.1 percent for houses and 2.1 percent for other dwellings, the latest research by the Real Estate Institute of Australia (REIA) has found. The REIA Real Estate Market Facts for the December quarter last year saw the average median house price for the eight capital cities at $743,496. REIA president…

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    Every Agent Has a Story: Kasey McDonald

    Our next story comes from Kasey McDonald, BDM of Vystal Living and BDM Academy, who shares the two key lessons she learned after been thrown in the deep end early in her career when dealing with a landlord who planned to sell their property. Make sure you have every conversation, exchange and decision in writing. “Communicate, communicate, communicate.” “Don’t let your [new]…

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    Darwin property values records high sales activity says Raine & Horne

    After two consecutive quarters of strong sales activity, prices in Darwin’s northern suburbs are set for an upswing, said Raine & Horne Darwin, general manager Glenn Grantham. Houses located in Jingili, Karama and Anula, are attracting 30-40 groups to open homes, with many selling it within three weeks of reaching the market, said Grantham. “There was a bounce in buyer…

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    Capital city dwelling values rises by 1.4 percent in February: Core Logic

    CoreLogic’s monthly Hedonic Home Value Index has reported a 1.4 percent rise in the value of capital city dwellings in February. The strong capital gain over February was led by Canberra (+3.2 percent) and Sydney (+2.6 percent), with Melbourne (+1.5 percent) and Hobart (+1 percent) also returning significant increases. In contrast, dwelling values were down over the month across Darwin…

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    Where do properties sell fastest in Australia, CoreLogic Property Pulse

    Melbourne properties sell the fastest of any capital city according to CoreLogic’s latest Property Pulse Market Update report. Melbourne dwellings took an average of 35 days to sell in December 2015 with the figure falling to an historic low of 29 days at the end of 2016 while the typical Sydney dwelling sold after an average of 33 days in…

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    Core Logic: Strong Start To The Year As Dwellings Value Rise In Most Aussie states

    The latest CoreLogic January index results have confirmed that all capital cities recorded a rise in home values, with Hobart in the lead, recording a 5.8 percent rise in dwelling values over the three months to the end of January – with Sydney and Melbourne also posting strong increases over the rolling quarter. Highlights over the three months to January…

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    Window closing for buyers as Darwin’s real estate market rebounds: Raine & Horne

    After two challenging years for the real estate market in Darwin, the number of buyers has increased threefold in the first month of 2017, according to Raine & Horne Darwin. “We hosted an average of 4.5 groups at every open home in January. We were lucky to attract an average of 1.5 groups over the last two years,” said Glenn…

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    CoreLogic Pain & Gain Report: September 2016 Quarter

    The average profit on resale increases to $262,672 while average loss was $71,529 over the September 2016 Quarter, according to the latest CoreLogic Pain & Gain Report. The latest September 2016 quarter Pain & Gain Report produced by CoreLogic delivers a timely market analysis for residential property resales over the quarter by comparing the most recent sale price to its…

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    Domain House Price Report: December Quarter 2016

    National prices have increased over the quarter, although the annual growth rate is the lowest since 2012 – according to the latest quarterly Domain House Price Report. Over the quarter, median house prices increased in all capital cities, except Perth and Darwin. The national median house price increased by 3.4 per cent to $780,887, the strongest quarterly result since the…

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    Domain Rental Price Report: December Quarter 2016

    House rents have increased in most capitals, with the rental market outlook looking positive for investors – according to the December quarter Domain Rent Report. Median house rents increased in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra and Hobart. The resource capital of Perth continued to remain the clear exception to the trend, with high vacancy rates and rents continuing to fall.…

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    CoreLogic: Capital city dwelling values experience highest growth rate in seven years

    Highlights over the three months to December 2016 Best performing capital city: Darwin +5.9 percent Weakest performing capital city: Adelaide -1.6 percent Highest rental yields: Hobart houses with gross rental yield of 5.1 percent and Hobart Units at 5.7 percent Lowest rental yields: Melbourne houses with gross rental yield of 2.7 percent and Darwin units at 3.6 percent Most expensive…

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    Raine & Horne reacquires its South Australian operation from long-time franchisees

    In a bid to strengthen its presence in South Australia, Raine & Horne had reacquired its real estate business from long-term franchise holders, Chris and Sue Weston for an undisclosed sum late last year. The husband and wife team who has been operating the group’s franchise since 1996 is the latest business to be reacquired by Raine & Horne after…

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