MacroBusiness Access Subscriber Only Content at 10:00 am on December 10, 2020 | 35 comments Prosper Australia has released its 10th Speculative Vacancies report, which estimates that there are 69,000 homes sitting vacant across Victoria in 2019: Key Findings Vacancies recorded in 2019 could house 185,000 people at current household averages. Vacancies increased 13.3% between 2017 and 2019. Properties using zero litres per day on average over 12 months totalled 24,042, a ratio of 1.4%. When added to the short term rental rate, some 4.7% of properties were likely vacant. Up to 16.1% of investor owned residential properties were potentially vacant. Just 12.3% more properties were sold as were likely vacant. These findings do not include 370,000 vacant land lots, largely within master planned communities.