Source: Courier Mail In a market where rents are rising 25 per cent, soft er prices and rising rates do not explain the exodus of private investors. In every city across Australia the rent crisis is hitting hard. Anyone who needs to rent finds out very quickly there is very little on offer and prices are rising rapidly.  For property owners, however, it’s a red-hot market. The single biggest risk for private investors in property investment – the risk of missing rental inco...

Source:  Australian Property Journal AUSTRALIAN home values recorded the greatest decline on record in the first month of the new year. CoreLogic’s Daily Home Value Index (HVI) took an 8.40% tumble on 7 January 2023,from its peak on 7 May 2022.  This latest index result eclipsed the previous record in peak-to-trough declines, when home values dropped 8.38% between October 2017 and June 2019. CoreLogic noted that the previous housing downturn between 2017 and 2019 held for 2...

Source: API Property Journal AUSTRALIAN house prices are falling at their fastest rate since the early 1980s recession, and rising interest rates could see 30% wiped off values. Values fell by 1.3% in July, marking the third consecutive drop for CoreLogic’s national Home Value Index. After prices surged 28.6% through the pandemic growth phase, they are now 2.0% below the April peak. Five of the eight capital cities recorded a month-on-month decline, led by Sydney and Melbourne w...

Source:  REIQ The rental supply squeeze has kept a tight grip on Queensland, despite some slight increases in vacancies on the coasts, according to the Real Estate Institute of Queensland’s (REIQ) latest report. The REIQ’s Residential Vacancy Report for the June Quarter 2022, released today, showed the vast majority of Queensland continues to endure incredibly tight and relatively flat vacancy rates, well below one percent, a far cry from a healthy 2.6 – 3.5 percent r...

Source: The Chronicle Essential workers such hospital workers and teaching staff, even students, are struggling to find a rental as Queensland’s vacancy rates plummet to punishing new lows across parts of the state. The REIQ’s Residential Vacancy Report for the June Quarter 2022 shows that vacancy rates have fallen again across 21 of the 50 Queensland housing markets, with two regions – Goondwindi and Southern Downs –practically putting up the “no vacancy sign&...

Source:  CoreLogic Australia’s rental market continues to tighten as low supply levels cause national vacancy rates to dive and rents to rise across all capital cities and property types over the past three months. CoreLogic’s Quarterly Rental Review for Q2 2022, released today, shows the national rental index increased 0.9% in the month to June and 2.9% over the June quarter, a 30 basis point increase on the three months to March. Dwelling rents are 9.1% higher across the...

Source: CoreLogic Owing to the popularity of the state’s largest coastal markets (Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast), Queensland was the only state to have a similar number of million-dollar markets in both its capital city (122) and its rest of state area (107). Thanks to its relative affordability and a steady stream of interstate migration, values have surged across Queensland, with the number of million-dollar markets more than doubling across Brisbane (up 139.2%) and regional QLD (u...

Source:  Australian Property Journal The national residential vacancy rate has been crunched to just 1% – its lowest level in 16 years – and is set to tighten further, as rents skyrocket and the national rental crisis worsens. New data from SQM Research showed there were 36,478 vacant properties across the country in May, down from 39,616 in April. Vacancy rates in Sydney and Melbourne came down over the month to 1.5% and 1.7% respectively, and were steady in their CBDs at...

Source: CoreLogic Housing markets lost more steam in May as a combination of higher interest rates, rising inventory levels and lower sentiment dampened conditions. CoreLogic’s Home Value Index (HVI) showed Sydney (-1.0%) and Melbourne (-0.7%) dwelling values continued to record the most significant month-on-month falls, while Canberra (-0.1%) recorded its first monthly decline since July 2019. Although housing values continued to rise across the remaining capitals, the growth wa...

Source: CoreLogic While housing value growth has slowed, rents continue to rise swiftly.  Nationally, CoreLogic’s Hedonic Rental Index increased 1.0% in May, taking the quarterly rate of growth to 3.0%, up 60 basis points on a year ago. The annual change in rents is now tracking at 8.8% across the combined capital cities and 10.8% across the combined regions. Unit rents are rising at a faster annual pace than house rents across the combined capital cities (where house ...