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When is an auction not an auction?

{ Posted on Nov 17 2011 by Tim Lawless }
With auction clearance rates consistently tracking between 45% and 50% since April this year it begs the question, why take a property to auction when you have less than a 50% chance of selling via this process? Melbourne, Australia’s largest auction ...Read More »

Auction sales becoming less popular

{ Posted on Aug 18 2011 by Tim Lawless }
Auction clearance rates across the major capital cities have held fairly steady around the fifty percent mark since late last year.  During the height of the market back in 2009, as many as 80% of auctions were clearing.  That was ...Read More »

Melbourne’s Super Saturday

{ Posted on Oct 21 2010 by Tim Lawless }
On a national basis, the number of auctions taking place has remained very buoyant during spring and is above average in all capital cities.  Meanwhile, auction clearance rates have been trending lower since May of this year, it’s no coincidence ...Read More »

Auction market update

{ Posted on Sep 23 2010 by RP Data Research }
RP Data tracks auction results across all capital cities of the country, typically collecting results for between 85% and 90% of all auctions each week. Through our Agent’s Advice team we contact our vast network of agents to compile the ...Read More »

Are interest rates too high?

{ Posted on Aug 12 2010 by RP Data Research }
A whole raft of data has been released this week by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and most of it has not been particularly positive.  These figures pose the question, are interest rates too high? Unemployment data released this week ...Read More »