{"id":34598,"date":"2021-09-17T08:04:46","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T20:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertynoise.co.nz\/au\/?p=34598"},"modified":"2021-09-17T08:04:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T20:04:46","slug":"housing-turnover-reaches-its-highest-level-in-nearly-12-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertynoise.co.nz\/au\/housing-turnover-reaches-its-highest-level-in-nearly-12-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Housing turnover reaches its highest level in nearly 12 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOTO: Sydneysiders are less prepared to pay for the cost of living inner city, instead gravitating towards the outer suburbs.\u00a0Photo:\u00a0iStock<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Home sales this year have hit the highest number since 2004 with a buying frenzy fuelled by rock-bottom mortgage rates, a loosening of credit policies, government incentives and record COVID-19 savings.<\/p>\n

Nearly 598,000 houses and apartments sold across the country over the year to August 2021, the latest report from CoreLogic<\/a> has revealed. This is 42 per cent up on the previous 12 months, and 31 per cent above the decade average.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a real story of extremes, with record-low levels of listings this year and record levels of demand leading to a huge number of sales and the biggest price growth since 1989,\u201d said CoreLogic research director\u00a0Tim Lawless.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut hopefully next year will be more balanced with more listings to satisfy demand, affordability problems, credit tightening and the exhaustion of buyer demand. Many people who wanted to buy will have already bought and we might see the tide finally turning, and the market that\u2019s been so skewed to the seller seeing buyers getting a bit more of the power.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new research shows housing turnover \u2013 home sales as a percentage of the total number of homes \u2013 has now hit 5.6 per cent, the highest rate since December 2009. Just two years ago, it dropped to a record low of 3.7 per cent as a result of tighter credit conditions, difficulties with housing affordability and high transaction costs, such as stamp duty.<\/p>\n

In NSW, the year-on-year increase in home sales was 38.9 per cent, in Victoria 34 per cent and Queensland 54 per cent. The biggest jumps were in Western Australia at 62 per cent and the Northern Territory at 58.5 per cent, both areas where the previously weaker markets have been playing catch up.<\/p>\n

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