to 8 per cent this year from 6 per cent and narrowed the price decline they expect next year to 3.5 per cent from 6 per cent, due to stronger-than-expected momentum.CoreLogic’s preliminary clearance rate fell from a week earlier in every city except Melbourne.“It’s very patchy,” Melbourne buyers’ agent Emma Bloom said. “There’s a bit of a recalibration happening.
But the renovated Victorian home on 1120 square metres still sold at a price the vendors were happy with, he said. A slowdown from the recent booming clearance rates may only signal a move towards a more normal market.“We’re not going to see price growth we’ve seen in the last couple of years, which makes it great for buyers,” Ray White chief NSW auctioneer Alex Pattaro said.
In Sydney’s northern suburb of Putney, Mr Pattaro auctioned on Saturday a five-bedroom house with a 19-metre street frontage. It sold $280,000 over the $2.9 million reserve at $3.18 million.
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