Australia Property Prices Accelerate as Supply Shortfall Bites
- Swelling population is absorbing housing that comes to market
- That’s despite 12 interest-rate hikes from RBA to cool demand
Listings at a real estate agency in Sydney,
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Australia’s housing-market momentum accelerated in August as demand from a growing population vacuumed up new supply and outweighed the impact of the central bank’s aggressive policy tightening campaign.
Sydney prices, the national bellwether, advanced 1.1% and are up 8.8% from a January trough, property consultancy CoreLogic Inc. said in a report Friday. Brisbane led August’s gains — climbing 1.5% — with every major city recording an expansion outside Hobart on the island state of Tasmania.