October 2010 Sydney property prices – behind auction clearance rates lies a two speed housing market between $1 million and $2 million
October 30th, 2010
While auction clearance rates have definitely fallen this month relative to the levels experienced at the same time last year, the devil is in the detail underlying the published statistics. In an attempt to reconcile mainstream media reports wh
Read MoreFitch’s gives Australian house market a tick
October 15th, 2010In a study much anticipated by some housing bubble doomsayers but which reinforces the views expressed in CurtiseCall August 2010, preliminary calculations just released by credit agency Fitch Ratings suggest that local banks would be able to withsta
Read MoreIs Sydney’s property market in bubble territory? Lessons from September 2007 and the unimportance of interest rates
October 8th, 2010
Driven by sustained auction clearance rates in September 2013 over 80%, property chatter this month has largely and again been about the existence or otherwise of a bubble forming in Sydney's property market.We thought we would approach the t
Read MoreSydney’s Spring 2010 residential property market – a bubble ready to burst?
August 31st, 2010
Driven by cold weather, a never ending Federal election and lingering uncertainty about the global economy, much of the Sydney residential property market has been in a holding pattern for the last six weeks. Media reports of rising auction clear
Read MoreWill ASIC one day regulate the Australian residential property market?
July 20th, 2010Regular visitors may recall CurtiseCall - April 2010.As The Age reported today, in a paper reflecting his personal views rather than those of his boss, ASIC’s Chief Economist also thinks there is a case to be made for ASIC’s regulation of the
Read MoreWhat is really happening in Sydney’s residential property market over $1 million?
July 16th, 2010
As noted in the May 2010 edition of CurtiseCall, an autumn chill hit the Sydney residential property market which brought the pre Easter (2-5 April 2010) frenzy to a screeching halt.Has that chill turned to tundra or was it just the Sydney pr
Read MoreThe autumn 2010 Sydney property market – a cold wind is blowing
May 21st, 2010
While prices in the 2010 Sydney residential property market have been defying gravity for months, there blows a cold autumn wind strongly suggesting this is about to change. CurtiseCall’s Sydney property market forecast for 2010 is that althoug
Read MoreSydney’s property market and the curse of the confidential price
April 14th, 2010
The recurring themes over the last month or so concerning the Sydney property market have been high auction clearance rates especially during the “Super Saturday” preceding Easter Saturday, rising median prices, reserves being smashed, the co
Read MoreThe 2010 Sydney residential property market – it’s off and racing
February 26th, 2010
If one likens Sydney’s 2010 residential property market to the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, then the accompanying image best illustrates what has been happening in many brackets since the last edition of CurtiseCall on 21 December 2009.Buoyed
Read MoreSydney Property Market 2009 Wrap and Forecast for 2010
December 21st, 2009
Welcome to our last CurtiseCall for 2009. Although hard to believe, another 12 months in Sydney’s property market is drawing to a close and compared to this time last year, what a year it has been!2009 – the year that wasAs the glob
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