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Louis Christopher is flabbergasted at the surge he has seen in the property market. “It’s surreal,” he says. “Who would have thought the housing market would be up for the year?”
Many factors had worked against the nation’s $7.3 trillion housing market over the past 12 months, says Christopher, managing director of the property data house SQM Research. The coronavirus pandemic, a spike in unemployment in the middle of 2020 and a sudden spike in empty rental homes in the hearts of Sydney and Melbourne, some of the world’s most expensive cities for real estate, were all signs that prices were about to go south.
Australian retail turnover fell 4.2 per cent in December 2020, seasonally adjusted, according to preliminary retail trade figures released today by the.
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