Melbourne's most risky property investor dominated suburbs

There is no surprise investor activity is heavily concentrated within the capital city inner city unit market. But the latest charts from Cameron Kusher at CoreLogic RP Data provides insights into the elevated level of investor purchasing. 

There are many suburbs were investors represent 50% plus of apartment buyers. Melbourne has the highest levels of investor activity for units, followed by Brisbane, Adelaide and Sydney.

The spread of house investors are not an issue, other than one location in Brisbane. 

Source: CoreLogic RP Data

As Kusher suggests, if many investors were to exit the market at a similar time in search of superior returns, that could have some serious repercussions for the inner city unit market and potentially the wider housing market too.

Investors own a staggering 89% of units in Travancore, the Melbourne suburb.

Their report noted the suburbs with the highest levels of investor apartment ownership are often those with significant and large developments so Travancore, ranked above Kingsville, Carlton, Elwood, Notting Hill, Hawthorn and Melbourne.

Each of these areas has more than seven in 10 units owned by an investor.