Domain put Sydney clearance rate at just 48 percent, i.e. a buyer's market

Domain put Sydney clearance rate at just 48 percent, i.e. a buyer's market
Jonathan ChancellorMay 6, 2018

Domain's revised results for the weekend of April 28 and 29 put the Sydney clearance rate at 48.1 per cent.

It was a significant occurrence, the first time below 50 percent on an ordinary auction weekend for many years.

Last week revised tallySaturday 28 April 2018
CitySydney
Clearance rate48.1%
Number listed673
Number reported auctions502
Number sold301
Number w/drawn124
Total value sold (million)$261.7
Auction median houses$1,307,000
Auction median units$905,000

Cooley Auctions' auctioneer Damien Cooley recently suggested a generally accepted auction clearance rate for a healthy market, where both sellers and buyers have equal bargaining positions, was between 50 per cent and 60 per cent.

The original Saturday night had the clearance rate at 58.1 percent.

CitySydney
Clearance rate58.1%
Number listed670
Number reported auctions378
Number sold264
Number w/drawn76
Total value sold (million)$224.1
Auction median houses$1.3 milion
Auction median units$905,000

"Buyers certainly feel like the tides have changed ... but we won't call them buyers' markets unless clearance rates are less than 50 per cent.""Things are changing and the market is not as good as it was, but it's a very fair market," Cooley Auctions' auctioneer Damien Cooley told Fairfax Media recently.

Jonathan Chancellor

Jonathan Chancellor is one of Australia's most respected property journalists, having been at the top of the game since the early 1980s. Jonathan co-founded the property industry website Property Observer and has written for national and international publications.

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