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02/06/2025

House prices have continued rising across the country amid interest rate cuts and expectations are that as more buyers return to the market, property values will keep rising.

National house prices have continued rising amid interest rate cuts and expectations are that as more buyers return to the market, property values could rise by up to 10 per cent by early 2026.

20/02/2025

Sydney & Melbourne Housing Set to Rebound? 🏡📈

With the interest rate cutting cycle underway, Sydney & Melbourne’s housing markets could see a turnaround! Auction clearance rates may rise to 50-60% over the next month, and home prices are expected to lift by 3-7% in Sydney and 2-6% in Melbourne by year-end.

Tight rental markets + lower rates = more first-home buyers entering!

Perth & Brisbane remain the strongest markets, with Adelaide close behind.

❗Another rate cut in April could fuel more confidence—and maybe even some FOMO.

What do you think? Is the market about to heat up? 🔥👇

13/02/2025

Sheesh.
Stay away from these creatures if you want to live.

Visitors to a popular North Shore beach have been warned to watch out for blue-ringed octopuses after the Mosman Council reported multiple bites at Balmoral over the last week.

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10/02/2025

✨SQM Research is excited to announce our move to a stunning new location!✨

We’re now based in a modern, state-of-the-art building featuring breathtaking views and a sleek, stylish layout.

If you’re visiting us, we’d love to welcome you to our new office at:
📍 Level 15, 99 Walker Street, North Sydney, 2060
We look forward to seeing you soon!

23/12/2024

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone from the team at SQM Research

16/12/2024

2025 Forecast Series - Brisbane

15/12/2024

2025 Forecast Series - Melbourne

14/12/2024

2025 Forecast Series - Perth

13/12/2024

2025 Forecast Series - Sydney

12/12/2024

🔹As predicted, this year’s spring selling season recorded higher listings activity than 2023 with total listings up by 4.6% compared to Spring 2023.

🔹However, this was mainly driven by a rise in older listings. New listings were just up by 1.8% to 242,218 new listings for the period.

🔹This will be slightly disappointing news to many real estate agents who were counting on a stronger selling season than what has actually happened.

🔹Clearly, the housing market has slowed down, particularly in Sydney and Melbourne where we are recording lower vendor confidence as measured by our asking prices index which fell a further 0.9% for Sydney and 0.7% for Melbourne.

🔹Going forward, new listings are very likely to fall away in the lead up to Christmas with the typical hiatus period occurring between the 23rd of December through to Australia Day. The first major auction weekend will likely be the 1st of February.

🔹However, we should note that summer holiday locations such as the Gold Coast tend to have their busiest period of the year in January and this coming January will be no exception to that tradition.

11/12/2024

⚠️This is the most sour result out of Sydney.

The weakest result for the year and indeed for the 2023, ex the Xmas/January periods.
Housing prices are certainly falling with these results.

Now a more dovish RBA might just move sentiment, going forward. Then again, there were a lot of expectations for a rate cut at the start of this year that came to nought.

This coming week will be the last proper auction week before the market moves into hiatus.

Melbourne holds steady again at 49%. And the result actually comes in slightly higher than this time, last year. It's been a long time since that happened.

Has Melbourne found some type of floor?
Way too early to say. But the housing bulls will be relieved the Melbourne auction market has held... for now.

10/12/2024

Check the Auction Listings for this week!