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Buyers and vendors jumping into the property market ahead of spring have driven clearance rates to unseasonable highs. But consistent levels of turnover have agents speculating the spring “rush” may be smaller than usual.
“I just don’t think that avalanche we usually see is going to come,” Morrell and Koren buyers agent David Morrell said. “Buyers are tired, while vendors know things can’t keep going the way they are without going backwards or getting slower.”
Buyers are showing signs of resistance to higher prices at the end of an 18-month upturn, even as the rate of buying and selling shows little sign of slowing.
Prices in almost every capital city wound backwards during the week, on a weekend when almost 70 per cent of the 1500 homes up for auction changed hands, according to RP Data.
While the prospect of interest rates lifting in the second half of the year might have bought forward the buying plans for some groups, some agents argue the sense of urgency to transact has been dampened by a belief that price growth is set to slow or stabilise.
“What I’m finding is that buyers are getting pickier and they’re also prepared to drive a harder bargain,” Mr Morrell said.
“Buyers have seen prices moving along like this for the past couple of months, but they’ve got to the point where it doesn’t hurt to wait a bit longer.”
Sydney house prices fell back 0.1 per cent, in the same week it lead buying and selling activity. In Sydney, 356 homes changed hands out of more than 583 homes going to auction.
Notable sales included a two-storey garden apartment with two bedrooms in Wylde Avenue, Potts Point which netted $3.6 million at auction on Saturday. One of three in a prestigious development overlooking Garden Island Naval Base, the Finger Wharf and the Botanic Gardens, the apartment has ornate Italianate features including parquet floors, corinthian columns and vaulted ceilings. Across the city, a modern, architectural home in Hornsby in the city’s north with five bedrooms netted $1.7 million at auction.
Pharmacy students Joey Elfaar, 23, and Lina Sarsam, 21, finally became homeowners after paying more than $332,500 for a house and land package at Mirvac’s Elizabeth Hills development near Liverpool in south west Sydney.
The young couple had tried a number of times before to buy into previous releases at the 56-hectare project before striking it lucky during the last release. The 892-block estate is now fully sold out.
“When we launched in 2011 it was a very price-sensitive market but we were also aware of significant pent-up demand,” Mirvac residential head John Carfi said.
In Melbourne almost three quarters of the 637 homes that went to auction changed hands, including ‘Talana’, the Queen Anne-style Hawthorn home of King & Wood Mallesons partner Tony Troiani which sold for more than $10 million after a marathon two-year stretch on the market.
“The market looks like it’s recalibrating,” Abercromby’s agent Jock Langley – the agent who sold Talana – told The Australian Financial Review.
“There’s been a lot of stock sitting around for a while, and now it looks like good buying . The reality is that buyers are still outweighing supply.”
But across the city, values fell back 0.3 per cent. Adelaide home values also slid 0.2 per cent, while Brisbane moved ahead 0.3 per cent and prices in Perth held stable.
Clearance rates in other capital cities also showed some signs of weakening. In Brisbane a clearance rate of 32.3 per cent was recorded compared to 44.7 per cent last week. Adelaide recorded a clearance rate of 60.3 per cent compared to 60.3 per cent one week ago, while Canberra recorded a clearance rate of 59.1 per cent and Perth hit 46.2 per cent.
A 1960s style red and yellow brick home in Hackett, Canberra with four bedrooms sold for $670,000 through McGrath agent Justin Taylor and Bret Loughton.
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