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Housing market on track for its steepest downturn in 40 years (opens the original)
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The country’s housing market is on track for its steepest downturn in four decades, with the median property value in Sydney falling more than $112,000 since a February peak and declines in other major capital cities accelerating as interest rates rise and buyers steer clear of auctions. Residential real estate values slid 1.1 per cent across the country in September, and were down 1.5 per cent and 1.4 per cent in Brisbane and Sydney respectively, figures published by data analysis firm Cotality
Offsets. Budgeting. Refinancing. This couple followed all the rules – and they’re still battling (opens the original)
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For Elliott and Lauren Busch, the Reserve Bank’s fourth interest rate rise this year means another round of belt-tightening just to tread water on their mortgage. “It’s looking at things like kids’ birthday parties, whether that’s having it at home and doing the old traditional fairy bread and cake,” said Elliott. “Or minimising the amount that we go out to movies, or obviously probably not taking the kids out to dinner.” Gift articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.
Auctions slump to 10-week low as Tamarama units take $9m haircut (opens the original)
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The auction clearance rate has slumped to a 10-week low nationally as the AFL grand final, combined with expectations of a fourth interest rate rise and further price falls, kept buyers on the sidelines. The preliminary clearance rate fell to 50.3 per cent after hitting a 19-week high of 58.5 per cent two weeks ago, sinking the rolling spring rate average below the winter average, according to data house Cotality. Gift articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.
How ‘desperate’ property agents are giving buyers wins this spring (opens the original)
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When Marie-Charlotte Maslo and Simon Benoist noticed house prices declining in their area south of Wollongong, NSW, while they were being hit with a $50-a-week rent increase, they decided to start looking for a place to buy. The couple, along with their three-year-old daughter, Charlie, took their time touring multiple properties around Shellharbour and ended up with a four-bedroom house they liked best for $1.124 million in Mount Warrigal, about $35,000 under market value. Gift 5 articles to an
‘Always disappointing’: AI-enhanced property ads frustrate buyers (opens the original)
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Melbourne buyers’ agent Dion Marsden is tired of looking at properties online, only to arrive at entirely different homes in person due to the growing use of AI enhancements in real estate listings. “I had been to a couple of properties that had, I guess, AI [furniture] staging in it. They’re always disappointing. You see the photos, you get excited, and then by the time you head onto the property, you’re very disappointed at what you’re actually physically seeing,” Marsden says. Gift 5 articles
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