The gap between the two bars is the Deception Gap — how much the headline rate overstates how much of the scheduled market actually cleared.
Green <15% normal · Amber 15–25% elevated · Red >35% crisis. Withdrawals ÷ scheduled auctions.
Week Ending Saturday 12 September 2026 — Spring Split Screen
The Australian auction market is now running on two tracks, and the divergence is the sharpest we have seen all year. At the top of the market — Sydney and Melbourne — the headline clearance rates look respectable but the underlying truth is thinning. At the small end — Brisbane and Canberra — the headline rates have snapped back violently off near-terminal lows. Four cities moved up week-on-week; one moved down.
The single most important number this week is not a clearance rate. It is Sydney's postponement count of 158 listings — the highest we have recorded in the spring campaign. Vendors are not ripping stock off the market anymore; they are parking it. That is a bet on spring. It is also a bet that can expire.
Headline Numbers — Week Ending 12 September 2026 (Domain preliminary)
| City | Official CR | TRUE CR | Scheduled | Reported | Sold | Withdrawn | Passed In | Median | Deception Gap | WD % | Unreported % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sydney | 54% | 32.0% | 706 | 422 | 226 | 133 | 63 | $1,590,000 | 22.0pp | 18.8% | 40.2% |
| Melbourne | 62% | 43.5% | 768 | 536 | 334 | 68 | 134 | $970,000 | 18.5pp | 8.9% | 30.2% |
| Brisbane | 31% | 23.3% | 159 | 120 | 37 | 16 | 67 | $1,095,250 | 7.7pp | 10.1% | 24.5% |
| Adelaide | 48% | 30.9% | 94 | 60 | 29 | 8 | 23 | $891,000 | 17.1pp | 8.5% | 36.2% |
| Canberra | 52% | 42.4% | 59 | 48 | 25 | 8 | 15 | $1,186,500 | 9.6pp | 13.6% | 18.6% |
TRUE CR = Sold ÷ Scheduled (all postponed and no-shows included). Deception Gap = Official − TRUE. Unreported % = share of scheduled auctions Domain has no result for.
Market Pulse — What the Data Is Really Saying
RBA Context. The cash rate has been held at 4.35% since 12 August 2026. The next Monetary Policy Board meeting is 28–29 September 2026, with the decision announced at 2:30pm AEST on 29 September. That is the next live catalyst for this market — and it lands squarely inside the spring selling campaign. Until then, the market must carry itself on buyer demand alone, and buyer demand is thinner than the headline rates suggest.
Key Call-Outs
Sydney entered spring with a story: clearance was recovering, the worst was behind us. This week that story took a hit. Official clearance eased to 54% (from 56%) and TRUE clearance fell to 32.0% — down from 35.3% a week earlier. After five weeks of steady improvement from 29.6% at the start of August, the trend has reversed.
The deception gap widened to 22.0 percentage points. For every 100 auctions scheduled in Sydney this week, just 32 sold. The other 68 were withdrawn (133), passed in (63), parked as postponed (158), or simply never reported (284 — 40.2% of the schedule).
That 40.2% unreported rate is the number to sit with. Four in ten of the auctions Sydney vendors took to market this week have no published result. In a transparent market you would expect 10–15%. This is "dark inventory" — and it is why every Sydney headline should be discounted.
TRUE clearance vs Official CR — last six weeks
| Week | Official | TRUE | Deception Gap | WD% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Aug | 53% | 29.6% | 23.4pp | 16.5% |
| 8 Aug | ~52% | ~30% | ~22pp | ~15% |
| 15 Aug | ~55% | ~32% | ~23pp | ~17% |
| 22 Aug | 52% | 31.2% | 20.8pp | 8.5% |
| 5 Sep | 56% | 35.3% | 20.7pp | 17.6% |
| 12 Sep | 54% | 32.0% | 22.0pp | 18.8% |
Withdrawal analysis. At 18.8%, Sydney's withdrawal rate is firmly in elevated territory and is now the highest of the five capitals. Combined with the 158 postponed auctions, the picture is of a vendor cohort that has decided it will not meet a soft market — it will wait. Whether that wait is rewarded depends entirely on what buyer demand does over the next four weeks.
Postponement-to-withdrawal ratio: 1.30:1. This sits at the lower edge of the "Postponement Wave" phase (ratio >1.5:1 signals the pure spring-will-save-me psychology). Sydney has drifted back toward the transition zone. Read this carefully: if spring delivers buyers, the 158 postponed lots sell and the market clears. If the 29 September RBA decision arrives hawkish — or the Q3 CPI in October runs hot — that postponed stock becomes distressed stock, and Sydney faces a second leg down in November.
Melbourne is telling a cleaner story than Sydney, and it deserves credit for it. Official clearance firmed to 62% (from 59%) — the strongest headline reading of any capital this week. TRUE clearance came in at 43.5%, essentially flat on last week's 44.2%, and the highest sustained TRUE reading in months.
The critical number is the withdrawal rate: 8.9%. That is normal territory, and it is barely half Sydney's rate. Melbourne vendors went through their correction in May and June. They priced to the market, they transacted, and the residual vendor base is now realistic. You do not get an 8.9% withdrawal rate from a market in denial.
On the median. Melbourne's auction median rose to $970,000 from $935,000 — a 3.7% lift. Be careful here. Melbourne's median swings $50K–$80K week-to-week on composition alone. This week's lift reflects more inner-ring prestige stock transacting (Essendon at $4.3M, Brighton at $4.25M, Hawthorn East at $3.95M) than a broad repricing. The honest read: mid-market values are broadly flat, the top end cleared selectively, and the median is arithmetic, not sentiment.
Total Melbourne sales volume was $235.8M — larger than Sydney's $212.5M despite Sydney's higher median. That tells you Melbourne is transacting a deeper, broader spread of price points. Depth beats headline.
Brisbane's numbers improved sharply: official clearance 31% (from 16%), TRUE 23.3% (from 11.7%), median $1,095,250. We want to be precise about what this is and is not.
It is a real improvement. It is not a recovery. The market had 159 auctions scheduled and only 37 sold. 67 of the 120 reported auctions passed in — a 55.8% pass-in rate. That is the signature of a market where vendors' price expectations and buyers' willingness to pay remain fundamentally misaligned. The clearance "improvement" is largely a function of the vendor base finally capitulating on price, not of demand surging.
Brisbane's withdrawal rate of 10.1% looks benign, but it hides the true dynamic: vendors in Brisbane are not withdrawing, they are going to auction and failing at the hammer. Passed-in is the pressure valve, and it is wide open.
Regional split matters enormously in Brisbane. The listings that sold this week were heavily coastal and prestige: Burleigh Waters $2.5M, Kings Beach $2.425M, Mermaid Waters $2.24M, The Gap $2.225M, Lutwyche $2.1M, Mansfield $2M, Runaway Bay $1.87M, Ashmore $1.815M. Meanwhile the city-fringe and apartment-heavy Gold Coast corridor stalled: Southport, with three scheduled auctions, withdrew all three. Morningside withdrew both of its listings. Everton Hills withdrew both.
The Brisbane take: the top end and the coastal lifestyle market are clearing; the suburban mid-market and apartment stock are not. Do not read 31% as good news. Read it as "less bad, at the top end only."
Adelaide's official clearance rose to 48% (from 41%) and TRUE to 30.9% — a genuine step forward. The median fell 7.7% to $891,000, which we attribute to composition: the week's listings skewed toward the $500–900K mid-market rather than the prestige bracket.
What distinguishes Adelaide is reporting discipline. Historically the most transparent auction market in the country, Adelaide's result set is the most trustworthy of the five. That reliability is itself an intelligence edge for buyers: Adelaide's numbers tell you what is actually happening, without the Sydney-style dark inventory discount.
Adelaide's withdrawal rate of 8.5% and postponement-to-withdrawal ratio of 0.63:1 place it in the "withdrawal-leaning" zone — the only capital this week where withdrawals comfortably exceed postponements. Adelaide vendors are decisive: they either sell or they pull. That decisiveness is a sign of a market that has found something close to equilibrium.
Canberra produced the week's most dramatic turn. Official clearance jumped to 52% (from 34%) and TRUE clearance lifted 13.8 points to 42.4% — the second-highest TRUE rate of the five capitals.
Most importantly, the withdrawal epidemic broke. Canberra's withdrawal rate fell to 13.6% from last week's crisis-level 28.6%. The postponed stock from the spring standoff is converting to sales. This is precisely the sequence we flagged two weeks ago: a postponement wave is only dangerous if spring disappoints. In Canberra's case, spring delivered.
Canberra remains a thin market (59 scheduled), so week-to-week volatility is high and single transactions move the median. But the direction is unambiguous and it is positive. Notable: Curtin cleared all three of its scheduled auctions, Yarralumla cleared both (one at $1.9M), Farrer's $1.935M and Hughes' $1.183M sales confirm the premium inner-south market is active.
Method: listing-level extraction from the Domain Sydney auction page — 584 individual listings classified by status (sold / withdrawn / rescheduled / passed in) and aggregated into seven sub-regions plus an outer/regional NSW bucket. Region totals may differ slightly from Domain's headline table because they are computed from the listing text rather than the summary widget.
The prestige belt cleared what it took to market — a 44% sold rate is the second-best of Sydney's regions — but the 24 postponed listings tell you vendors on the upper end are not in a hurry to accept spring's opening bids. Bondi produced two sales ($2.3M and $1.76M) and Maroubra's $2.6M was the region's headline. Passed-in volume was almost nil (2), meaning the Eastern Suburbs market is binary: it either sells above reserve or it is parked.
Buyer's Agent Take: The 1.85:1 postponement ratio in the East is a window. Vendors who postponed in August and September will be under real pressure to transact by mid-October if they want to settle before Christmas. Circle postponed stock in Bondi, Bronte, Coogee and Rose Bay — approach agents directly in the last week of September, when the RBA decision lands and vendor resolve is at its weakest. You will negotiate from a position of strength.
The Inner West shows the market's real stress. It has Sydney's highest sold rate (55%) and its highest withdrawal rate (25%) — a genuinely bifurcated region. Marrickville's $3.5M sale was the standout, and Stanmore produced three sales above $2.1M. But one in four Inner West vendors withdrew. The postponement-to-withdrawal ratio of 0.4:1 is the most capitulation-leaning of any Sydney region — these vendors are pulling, not parking.
Buyer's Agent Take: This is where you find motivated sellers. A 25% withdrawal rate combined with 0.4:1 postponement means Inner West vendors are making real decisions, not deferring. Balmain, Rozelle, Lilyfield and Annandale remain the drawcard streets; the correction zone is Ashfield, Marrickville and Dulwich Hill, where asking prices have not yet caught up to what buyers will pay. Target the withdrawn-then-relisted stock — vendors who withdrew in August are now quietly negotiable. BresicWhitney Inner West cleared 6 of 7 listings at an 86% push-through rate — that agency is pricing honestly and is a useful bellwether for where value sits.
The Lower North Shore is the weakest region in Sydney on sold rate — only 37% of its 75 listings sold. With 23 postponed and 17 withdrawn against just 28 sales, the region has the market's largest volume of sidelined stock. The top end cleared (Beecroft $4.0M, Roseville $3.755M), but the sub-$1M and mid-market segments stalled.
Buyer's Agent Take: Mortgage-belt Upper North Shore suburbs — Chatswood, Artarmon, Lane Cove, St Ives, Turramurra — are where the stress is concentrated. The Ray White Upper North Shore book (24 listings, 38% push-through, 25% withdrawal) is the region's biggest and its withdrawal rate is a tell. Watch for post-RBA-decision discounting here. If you are buying in the $800K–$1.5M bracket, the Lower North Shore gives you more leverage than any other Sydney region right now.
A small, quiet week. Zero passed-in listings across the region — every auction either sold or was pulled. But a 29% withdrawal rate is elevated, and the 0.83:1 postponement ratio shows vendors here are choosing to pull rather than wait. Manly's $2.8M sale anchored the market.
Buyer's Agent Take: Holiday-home and lifestyle stock on the Northern Beaches (Avalon, Newport, Palm Beach, Bilgola) is where discretionary sellers sit. These vendors are not forced sellers — but a 29% withdrawal rate suggests several are testing the market without conviction. Approach withdrawn lifestyle listings in October: these owners will engage on price if the spring window closes without a sale.
A marked improvement on two weeks ago, when the Hills District recorded a 40% withdrawal rate and zero sales — a crisis signal. This week, only 2 of 21 listings withdrew, and sales spread across Carlingford ($2.168M), Cherrybrook ($2.137M, $2.01M) and Baulkham Hills ($1.875M). The caveat: 7 passed in, and a 2.5:1 postponement ratio shows vendor optimism is running ahead of buyer appetite.
Buyer's Agent Take: The Hills investor-retreat story has stabilised but not reversed. New-estate suburbs (North Kellyville, Riverstone, Kellyville) remain the most exposed to rate risk — these are heavily leveraged family buyers. Cherrybrook and West Pennant Hills are the quality pockets, and the fact that Ray White Castle Hill had 6 pass-ins from 9 listings tells you the entry-level market is still price-sensitive. Negotiate hard; there are no competing buyers in your way.
A bifurcated region. Terrace/character stock cleared reasonably (Surry Hills $2.355M, Redfern $2.15M), but the Paddington listing at $2.5M passed in, and 14 listings were postponed. Inner-city unit stock remains the pressure point.
Buyer's Agent Take: Investor-grade apartments in Zetland, Waterloo, Rosebery and Alexandria remain the weakest segment in Sydney. With the cash rate at 4.35% and one more hike not fully priced out, investor demand for low-yield, high-strata unit stock is structurally suppressed. If you are an owner-occupier with finance approved, unit stock in the City Fringe is the most negotiable asset class in the Sydney market right now — expect to transact 5–8% below the vendor's original guide.
The region's headline was Sans Souci's $5.1M sale — the highest price in the entire Sydney dataset this week. Woolooware ($3.8M) and Woronora ($3.275M) confirm the Sutherland Shire's waterfront premium is intact. But the region's overall sold rate was a modest 35%, and 9 postponed listings show the family market is patient rather than eager.
Buyer's Agent Take: The Shire's premium waterfront and acreage pockets (Sans Souci, Woolooware, Woronora, Sylvania Waters) are trading at full value — do not expect discounts there. The opportunity is in the mid-ring family suburbs (Miranda, Caringbah, Gymea, Jannali, Oatley), where a 1.8:1 postponement ratio means spring supply is queued but not yet selling. Expect modest softening in October if the RBA moves.
Nearly half of all Sydney-page listings are now outer-metropolitan and regional NSW — Newcastle, the Central Coast, the Illawarra, the Hunter and beyond. This bucket sold at 42%, marginally better than the Sydney metro average, and absorbed the week's largest volume. Regional markets are carrying more of the national transaction load than at any point in this cycle — a structural signal about where value and affordability now sit.
Buyer's Agent Take: If you are chasing yield, forget Sydney metro. Regional NSW centres with employment anchors — Newcastle, Maitland, the Illawarra — are clearing at rates that metro Sydney cannot match, at yields that actually service debt. The passive-investor playbook has migrated north of Hornsby.
Method: listings aggregated by agency from the Sydney and Melbourne auction pages; only agencies with ≥5 recorded listings are shown. Push-through = sold ÷ total listings. Withdrawal % = withdrawn ÷ total listings. A withdrawal rate above 25% is flagged as a red flag — it typically indicates a vendor book priced above market.
| Agency | Listings | Sold | Push-Through | Withdrawal % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BresicWhitney Inner West | 7 | 6 | 86% | 0% |
| Pace Property Agents | 5 | 4 | 80% | 20% |
| Adrian William | 13 | 9 | 69% | 8% |
| Stone Real Estate Beecroft / Castle Hill / Epping | 6 | 4 | 67% | 0% |
| Ray White Eastern Beaches | 8 | 5 | 63% | 13% |
| Pulse Property Agents | 5 | 3 | 60% | 0% |
| Agency | Listings | Sold | Push-Through | Withdrawal % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NGFarah | 6 | 1 | 17% | 83% |
| Highland Sutherland Shire & St George | 5 | 1 | 20% | 60% |
| Richard Matthews Real Estate | 6 | 2 | 33% | 50% |
| Ray White Erskineville / Alexandria / Glebe / Surry Hills | 9 | 2 | 22% | 44% |
| Ray White Epping | 9 | 3 | 33% | 44% |
| BresicWhitney East | 11 | 5 | 45% | 36% |
| The Agency | 10 | 1 | 10% | 30% |
| The Marshall Group | 11 | 5 | 45% | 27% |
| Agency | Listings | Sold | Push-Through | Withdrawal % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gary Peer | 8 | 7 | 88% | 0% |
| Heavyside | 7 | 6 | 86% | 0% |
| Nelson Alexander | Carlton | 6 | 5 | 83% | 0% |
| Jellis Craig Northcote | 7 | 5 | 71% | 14% |
| Jellis Craig Whitehorse | 9 | 6 | 67% | 0% |
| Ray White The Bayside Group | 9 | 6 | 67% | 11% |
| Ray White Glenroy | 9 | 5 | 56% | 0% |
| Agency | Listings | Sold | Push-Through | Withdrawal % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VICPROP Brunswick & Coburg | 6 | 1 | 17% | 33% |
| JELLIS CRAIG FITZROY | 8 | 2 | 25% | 25% |
| Buxton Real Estate Sandringham | 7 | 4 | 57% | 29% |
Buyer's Agent Interpretation. Two agencies stand out for the wrong reasons. NGFarah (Sydney) withdrew 5 of 6 listings — an 83% withdrawal rate. That is not market conditions; that is a vendor book priced materially above what buyers will pay, and it is a signal to any vendor currently listed with them. Ray White Erskineville / Alexandria / Glebe / Surry Hills withdrew 44% of a nine-listing book — consistent with the City Fringe unit-market weakness we identified in the spatial analysis.
On the positive side, BresicWhitney Inner West (86% push-through, zero withdrawals), Gary Peer (Melbourne, 88% push-through) and Heavyside (86%) are pricing to reality and clearing. If you are a vendor choosing an agent this spring, push-through rate — not clearance rate — is the metric that matters, because it captures pre-auction and post-auction sales as well as hammer sales.
Melbourne's agency picture is materially healthier than Sydney's overall: only three Melbourne agencies cleared the red-flag threshold versus eight in Sydney. That is the difference between a market that corrected early (Melbourne) and one that is still correcting (Sydney).
Source: SQM Research Weekly Rents Index, week ending 12 September 2026. Vacancy: SQM national residential vacancy rate (monthly, ~4-week lag) — most recent available is July 2026.
| City | Houses ($/wk) | Units ($/wk) | Combined ($/wk) | 12-Month Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sydney | $1,131.17 | $756.88 | $908.77 | +5.0% |
| Melbourne | $826.79 | $600.86 | — | +7.7% (houses) |
| Brisbane | $840.34 | $650.34 | $754.69 | +7.8% |
| Adelaide | $698.59 | $557.67 | — | +4.9% (houses) |
| Canberra | $792.06 | $601.73 | $686.89 | +3.6% |
| Perth | $891.77 | $664.44 | $798.13 | +6.5% |
| Darwin | $823.67 | $670.31 | — | +5.7% (houses) |
| Hobart | $615.91 | $587.49 | $604.61 | +10.3% |
| National | $776.00 | $618.00 | — | +7.0% (houses) |
| Capital City Average | $925.00 | $679.00 | — | +6.6% (houses) |
| Market | Vacancy Rate | Classification |
|---|---|---|
| National | 1.3% | Tight |
| Perth | ~0.6% | Crisis-tight |
| Adelaide | ~0.7% | Crisis-tight |
| Hobart | ~0.7% | Crisis-tight |
| Sydney | ~1.2% | Tight |
| Melbourne | ~1.4% | Tight |
| Brisbane | ~1.3% | Tight |
| Canberra | ~1.6% | Easing |
The investor math. The national vacancy rate has held at 1.3% through July 2026, with asking rents up 7.2% year-on-year. On a gross basis, a Melbourne house at $826.79/week against a $970,000 median auction price yields roughly 4.4% gross — before costs. Even allowing for the fact that auction medians overstate the quality-adjusted entry price, and that the relevant purchase price for a rental-grade dwelling sits below the metro median, the arithmetic is discouraging for a leveraged buyer at a 4.35% cash rate. An investor borrowing at ~6.2% is running a negative monthly carry on a typical Sydney or Melbourne residential purchase, relying entirely on capital growth to make the numbers work — and capital growth has been flat-to-negative for five months.
Yield vs investor rate — the shortfall. A typical investor loan today prices around 6.2%. To generate a neutral cash return on a Sydney purchase at a 3.2% gross yield, the investor needs capital growth of roughly 3% per annum just to break even on carry. That is precisely the market condition we do not have. This is why investor lending remains subdued and why low-yield apartment stock in Sydney's City Fringe is the most negotiable asset class in the country.
The counterpoint. Rental demand is not the problem — it never was. Structural undersupply in Perth, Adelaide and Hobart (all sub-0.8% vacancy) is a housing-shortage problem, not a cyclical one. Those markets will not soften through a rental correction because there is no rental supply to soften. For a yield-focused investor, Perth and Adelaide remain the only capitals where the rental fundamentals and the entry price are aligned.
Sydney and Melbourne will both report full spring campaigns. Watch Sydney's unreported rate above all: if it stays north of 40%, the headline clearance rate remains unreliable and the TRUE rate will stay in the low 30s. Melbourne should hold above 60% official with a stable 8–9% withdrawal rate — the most dependable reading in the country.
Brisbane's snap-back is fragile; expect a reversion toward the low-20s official as the top-end coastal sales do not repeat. Canberra's recovery should hold if its postponed stock continues to convert.
The next RBA decision (29 September) and the Q3 CPI (late October) are the two swing events. Our base case is a hold at 4.35% in September, with the market then drifting into a seasonally thin December.
| Scenario | Probability | Trigger | Market Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base — On hold | 55% | RBA holds 29 Sep; CPI in line | Sydney −1/−2%, Melbourne flat, Brisbane −3%, national soft landing |
| Downside — Hawkish RBA | 25% | RBA hikes or hawkish guidance; Q3 CPI >3.8% | Sydney −4/−6%, Melbourne −2/−3%, postponed stock becomes distressed |
| Upside — Spring revival | 20% | RBA signals cuts into 2027; buyer confidence returns | Sydney flat, Melbourne +2%, Brisbane −1%, clearance rates normalise |
First Home Buyers. The market has handed you a rare window, and it is closing. Sydney's City Fringe and Lower North Shore mid-market, and Brisbane's suburban mid-market, are the most negotiable segments in the country. Target unit stock in Zetland, Waterloo, Rosebery and Alexandria (Sydney) — the withdrawal rate is elevated and vendors are realistic. Use the 29 September RBA decision as your negotiation anchor: bid this week, settle after the decision, and hold firm on a 5–8% discount to the original guide. If you qualify for a state first-home concession, bank it — and remember that every week you wait, spring supply is absorbed and your leverage narrows.
Investors. Do not chase Sydney or Melbourne residential for yield — the arithmetic does not work at a 4.35% cash rate. If you are buying, buy where vacancy is structurally tight and entry prices are lower: Perth (0.6% vacancy, $891/week houses) and Adelaide (0.7% vacancy, $698/week houses) remain the only capitals where rental fundamentals and entry price are aligned. In Sydney, the only defensible investor play is the regional NSW bucket (Newcastle, Maitland, the Illawarra), which cleared at 42% this week at yields that actually service debt. Avoid inner-city Sydney units.
Upsizers. This is your market, and it is the first one in three years. The trade-up spread has widened: the sub-$1.5M segment (where you are selling) is showing 20–25% withdrawal rates and softer pricing, while the premium segment (where you are buying) is trading at fair value with less competition. Sell into the spring liquidity window in October, buy the postponed prestige stock in the Eastern Suburbs and Lower North Shore that vendors will be forced to release before Christmas. Target Bronte, Coogee, Rose Bay and Cammeray — those postponed lots are your opportunity.
Downsizers. Timing is on your side. Premium downsizer stock (Inner East, Inner South, Lower North Shore, the Shire waterfront) is clearing at full value — Sans Souci at $5.1M, Woolooware at $3.8M — so your sale proceeds are secure. Do not overpay for your next purchase: the unit and townhouse market you are buying into (City Fringe, Inner West) is the most negotiable asset class in Sydney. Negotiate a long settlement to bridge your sale and purchase, and if you are over 65, confirm your state stamp-duty concession before you commit — it can be worth tens of thousands.
| Source | Data Used | Vintage |
|---|---|---|
| Domain Auction Results | Official clearance, scheduled/reported/sold/withdrawn/passed-in, medians, listing-level status | Week ending 12 Sep 2026 (preliminary) |
| Domain listing-level extraction | Suburb and region aggregation, agency push-through/withdrawal rates | Week ending 12 Sep 2026 |
| SQM Research Weekly Rents Index | Weekly asking rents by city and dwelling type | Week ending 12 Sep 2026 |
| SQM Research National Vacancy | National and capital-city vacancy rates | July 2026 (monthly, ~4-week lag) |
| Reserve Bank of Australia | Cash rate target, decision dates | 12 Aug 2026 hold; next meeting 28–29 Sep 2026 |
| PropTrack Home Price Index | National dwelling value trend | August 2026 (−0.2% MoM) |
| Cotality / CoreLogic | Market context, historical clearance comparison | Monthly / rolling |
| ABS | Housing finance and building approvals context | ~6-week lag |
Listing-level auction data was extracted from Domain's capital-city auction results pages (Sydney and Melbourne via direct browser extraction; Brisbane, Adelaide and Canberra via parallel sessions) using a text-based status parser that classifies each listing as sold, withdrawn, rescheduled (postponement) or passed in. Domain's page DOM changed in September 2026, removing the class attribute previously used to locate listing containers; the extraction was adapted accordingly. Region aggregates for Sydney and Melbourne are computed from 584 and 617 individual listings respectively. Region totals may differ marginally from Domain's headline summary table because they are derived from listing-level text rather than the summary widget.
Note on data vintage. Domain auction figures are preliminary and are revised during the following week. Sydney's median and clearance figures in particular are subject to revision as late-reported results are added. Comparisons to "this time last year" reflect Domain's own year-earlier figures for the equivalent week.
Note on conflicts. Domain, Cotality and independent auction reporters use different methodologies and produce different clearance rates for the same week (Domain typically excludes postponed listings from its denominator; Cotality treats them differently). Readers should treat the TRUE clearance rate in this report as the like-for-like measure and the official rate as the headline convention.
This report is prepared for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice.