Melbourne leads the 20 year price growth, but Darwin wins over past decade: Onthehouse

Melbourne leads the 20 year price growth, but Darwin wins over past decade: Onthehouse
Jonathan ChancellorJuly 25, 2015

Melbourne leads the 20 year house price growth with annualised 8.16% price growth, but Darwin wins over past decade, the latest data from Onthehouse suggests.

It is the same outcome for units too.

The latest statistics reveal that recent annual growth in the Melbourne house market shot up 8.18% in the year to May 2015, which is a dollar increase of about $55,000.

While this is a far cry from the $160,000 value growth in its Sydney counterpart, it represents a rapid increase in values.

Table 1 presents the results for our major markets, for May 2015.

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Growth in Melbourne seems to have peaked at the beginning of 2014, with growth gradually trending down from this peak, Eliza Owen at Onthehouse reports.

"It is still unclear if growth in Sydney has peaked," she said.

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Jonathan Chancellor

Jonathan Chancellor is one of Australia's most respected property journalists, having been at the top of the game since the early 1980s. Jonathan co-founded the property industry website Property Observer and has written for national and international publications.

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