The smaller capital cities and some of our regional areas are now the strongest markets in Australia - as revealed by the new quarterly edition of The Price Predictor Index (one of our two most popular reports).

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Bendigo is one of numerous locations in Regional Victoria with strongly rising property markets, driven by a strong local economy, good transport links to Melbourne and an attractive level of housing affordability.

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Regional centres throughout Victoria & NSW are some of the strongest growth areas around Australia at the moment.

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Right now the strongest markets across Australia are in the regional areas, and as Sydney and Melbourne wind down, regional centres in NSW and Victoria are rising.

Across Australia, the two strongest market jurisdictions in the national real estate scene are Regional NSW and Regional Victoria. Both have multiple areas with strongly-rising sales activity and price growth.

The two strongest markets in the nation for price growth in the past 12 months have been Geelong in Victoria and Newcastle in NSW.

  The City of Hume in Melbourne's north has shown exceptional growth in the past couple of years and has a big future.

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The strongest property jurisdiction in Australia real estate is now regional NSW, where many cities and towns have rising markets.

Regional Victoria also has strongly-rising markets, particularly in regional centres close to Melbourne.

Hobart is now the strongest of the capital city property markets and many regional towns in Tasmania are starting to rise

In this episode of Hotspotting, Terry Ryder answers live questions from viewers on this monthly Q & A session on Facebook. 

Links mentioned in the episode 

New Strategy Session with Terry Ryder

New Location Hotspotting Reports

In this episode, Terry Ryder discusses the core problem impacting on housing affordability, the high level of taxation inflicted on the real estate industry by all levels of government, especially the crippling burden of stamp duty.

In this week’s episode, Terry talks about forecasts on the real estate markets from banks and international rating agencies and how mainstream media reports affect it.

He discusses

• Mainstream media’s bad habit of turning economist’s forecasts into fact
• The importance of researching past predictions and comparing it with actual outcomes
• Why reporting of forecasts for real estate should be tempered
• The reason why big forecasts from different sources often result in confusion for consumers
• The story of what happened to ANZ Bank’s property value forecasts for Sydney and Melbourne
• National Australia Bank’s Residential Property Survey findings and predictions
• Moody’s views and predictions for the property markets in Australia
• What we can expect with the major markets according to NAB, Moody’s and BIS Oxford Economics

Further Reading
Rent Markets Tighten in Most Cities

In this week's episode of the Hotspotting podcast, Terry discusses the current national trend towards lower rental vacancy rates.

He discusses

• The latest data from SQIM Research that shows that the average vacancy rate across the eight capital cities is currently 2.1%, compared to 2.3% a year ago.
• The individual vacancy rates across the capital cities which shows six of the eight cities have vacancies below 3%, of which four are under 1.5%.
• Why Brisbane is the big improver in lower vacancy rates due to a rise in interstate migration as well as a peak in unit completions.
• How Hobart and Canberra are leading rental growth nationally as well as vacancy rates under 1%

Further Reading
Rent Markets Tighten in Most Cities