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Real estate trends in Melbourne show high auction clearance, quick private sales and growth in building approvals. The Melbourne housing market has recovered strongly from a poor 2012. House prices grew by 6.6 per cent and sales volumes have also gone up ...
Despite the fact that we are mere days away from Christmas, the REIV expects about 510 auctions to take place in Melbourne this weekend. According to REIV CEO Enzo Raimondo, having 500 auctions this close to Christmas is considered "relatively high". However, from next week until mid-February, the market will settle into a quiet period ...
Figures released by SQM Research reveal that the level of residential rental vacancies rose during the month of November. SQM recorded a vacancy rate of 2.2 per cent, coming to a total of 62,885 vacancies nationwide. This increase breaks an ongoing trend. It is the first rise after four consecutive monthly declines ...
Melbourne’s property prices have trended upwards over the last thirty years, showing media talk of housing pains is overzealous. Just over two years ago, the talk of the media was all about how Melbourne’s property market would remain in the doldrums for the next decade. However, on a national level ...
According to the latest IMF findings, the biggest threat to the Australian economy in the near future is the strong Aussie dollar. The level of exchange rate is difficult to control because it is determined by both local factors and influences outside the Australian economy. Theoretically, direct intervention from the RBA could weaken ...
The big news this week was Holden's decision to stop manufacturing cars in 2017, which will result in a loss of about 2,900 jobs in both Adelaide and Melbourne. In the wake of this bad news, it was revealed that unemployment rose to 5.8 per cent in November, though this was in line with economists' expectations ...