PHOTO: Alistair Helm – Properazzi
The Auckland market is now firmly a buyers-market and the near term outlook is for a continued weakness well into 2019 based on the latest clearance rate and stagnant sales volume. However looking beyond the City of Sails reveals a property market for the rest of the country still experiencing healthy activity, with prices edging upwards, although that rate of increase is slowing.
SALES VOLUME
The latest 12 month total of property sales outside of Auckland up to and including September of this year was 52,998. This represents a small fall of less than 100 as compared to this time last year. The market volumes are certainly plateauing and have fallen by 15% from the peak of sales in August of 2016.
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