After recording stronger growth and milder declines through the recent cycles, a new analysis of Australia’s regional housing markets shows many areas have lagged their capital city counterparts over the past year. CoreLogic’s refreshed Quarterly Regional Market Update, which now analyses value and rent changes across the country’s largest 50 non-capital Significant Urban Areas (SUAs),…
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Kaytlin is a skilled research analyst and key member within CoreLogic’s research team. She specialises in collating large and customised data sets, data visualisation and residential data reports. www.Corelogic.com.au
Despite worsening affordability easing the pace of rental growth in Australia, rental availability tightened in September, with vacancy rates falling to new record lows across the country. CoreLogic’s Quarterly Rental Review for Q3 2023 shows rental values rose 1.6% over the quarter, down from the 2.2% rise seen in the June quarter and a full…
The medium to high-density sector has increasingly become an important part of Australia’s residential real estate market, with units steadily making up a larger portion of Australia’s housing stock. In August, CoreLogic estimated that units made up 25.9% of national housing stock and around 30.4% of Australia’s capital city housing stock, up from 19.6% and…
Rent values increase in more than 90% of Australian markets in the past year New suburb-level analysis of CoreLogic’s Mapping the Market interactive tool reveals more than nine in 10 house and unit markets across the country have seen an increase in rents over the 2022-23 financial year. Of the markets analysed, almost two thirds…
After outperforming house values since May 2022, national unit values recorded a milder monthly increase compared to houses in May. Unit values increased 0.9% compared to houses, which rose 1.2% while the quarterly trend also switched in favour of houses, up 2.4% over the three months to May, compared to a 2.2% quarterly rise for…
Almost 1,700 Australian house and unit suburbs have recorded a rental increase of 10% or more in the past year, despite the pace of rental growth showing signs of easing. CoreLogic’s national rental index shows the rate of rental growth has softened slightly, with rents up 0.8% in May compared to the 0.9% and 1%…
This time last year, CoreLogic’s Million Dollar Market report featured a record number of house and unit markets at the suburb level with a median value of $1 million or more. One year and 12 interest rate rise later, membership to the million-dollar club has become more exclusive, with many of last year’s new entrants…
Strong tenant demand for capital city unit rentals and a shortage of available listings has drastically closed the gap between median house and unit rents, with the gap dropping from $64/week to $39/week in the space of a year. CoreLogic’s monthly Australian Unit Market Update shows growth across capital city unit rents continues to outpace…
Australia’s property downturn continues to take its toll on premium regional markets that benefited most from the mass exodus away from capital cities during the height of the pandemic, with softer values, longer days on the market and bigger vendor discounts. CoreLogic’s quarterly Regional Market Update, which examines Australia’s 25 largest non-capital city regions, shows…
Demand pressures have compounded the pace of rental growth in Australia, as rents reaccelerated and vacancy rates tightened to a near-record low of 1.1% in the first three months of 2023. CoreLogic’s Quarterly Rental Review for Q1 2023 shows after easing through the second half of 2022, the country’s quarterly rental growth trend reaccelerated through…