RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY
DESPITE negative sentiments and rough conditions in Melbourne’s off-the-plan apartment market, value rates may increase over the next 12 months.ment fuelling the downturn.
According to Charter Keck Cramer’s report author Richard Temlett, despite many significant factors making apartment sales slow and...
Analysis of apartment projects across 10 Melbourne suburbs reveals that many that have been released over 2023 have increased their off the...
Though this market acceptance is coming through slowly, the ability to increase value rates is based on the developer...
With some projects having increased value rates by just 2% to 5% while others have increased by amounts exceeding than 25%...
In Melbourne, the pre-COVID off the plan value rate of $10,000/sqm has risen to almost $12,000/sqm, whilst the pre-COVID...
Charter Keck Cramer suggests that higher interest rates and diminished consumer sentiment will open up a new buyer and renter pool over the coming year...
Many who bought at a lower rate having to trade into medium and higher density dwellings as dictated by their revised finances...
While those who can’t afford to buy in this high interest rate market will be forced into the private rental market, making...
Though for some renters, rising rents may see some choose to purchase and pay off a mortgage instead, with BTS apartments the most...
Further, the gap between unit and house prices is currently very wide, with house prices down 9% since March 2022 but still up 15% on pre-COVID...
As a result of this and rapid rate rises, buyers will continue to be driven towards more affordable dwellings, such as...
Despite construction costs beginning to moderate, it’s unlikely they will decrease or return to pre-COVID levels...
This combined with stubborn land prices and Victoria’s restrictive planning system, will also result in increased apartment pricing...
Charter Keck Cramer forecasts that the maturity of the BTS apartment market in Melbourne is in the process of jumping by a full property market cycle...