National auction clearance rate at 76 percent: CoreLogic
Preliminary clearance rate along with auction volumes shows an increase across the combined capital cities, according to CoreLogic’s latest report.
The property data firm says that the capital city clearance rate increased this week, with preliminary results showing that 76.2 percent of reported auctions across the combined capital cities were successful.
This is compared to 75.1 percent last week and 68.8 percent one year ago.
Auction activity increased over the week with 2,844 homes taken to auction, up from 1,473 last week; however this time last year, volumes were higher with 3,540 properties taken to auction.
Each individual capital city market has seen a rise in auction volumes over the week, while clearance rates have been somewhat varied.
The highest preliminary clearance rate was in Sydney where 83.9 per cent of auctions cleared over the week, followed by Canberra at 76.6 per cent.
