Canberra rental listings graphed over time. 25 November 2013

Good news for housing affordability.

And Canberra’s recession has barely begun.

An interesting note is that some listings are for multiple units, like currently for Axis in Lyneham, this urban Ghetto was built super quick and put 300+ units onto the market at one time in one location, 24months later there are still vacancies. But Real estate agents don’t want to put 120+ listings out so they put a generic ad or cross advertise from equerries. It is however very interesting to see such fluctuations over a relatively short time.

I know there is real value in the market at the moment and I recommend people can negotiate down on advertised rental prices. Get a good deal while you can, god knows you wont be given any favours if the market changes.

What’s the go with the sharp drop offs? That has to be advertising renewal or the like. It’s not like 80 properties are rented one week and then another 80 come on the market the next day.

I’m certain I never said there was more work in it for you (significantly less than you’re doing now, really).
Allhomes ought to be able to provide it to you incredibly easily.

(If they can’t, they have major enterprise data problems. If they won’t, then they’re just arseholes who don’t recognise opportunities to partner their free advertising into a curated content steam)

why the US-style date format?

Interesting indeed, I like it.

For those interested, SQM Research provide really excellent and free charts showing both the vacancy rate and number of vacancies by region, which go back to 2005.

There’s been a clear and consistent ramping up in the number of available rentals since early 2012 (increasing from around 300 vacancies to around 1200 now, doubling the rental vacancy rate from just shy of 1% to more than 2% now).

It really shows how appallingly bad the years prior to 2008 were, when vacancies were sub 100 and the vacancy rate was maybe 0.2%.

A vacancy rate of 3%+ is what is generally considered to be a healthy rental market, which shows the level of policy failure by the ACT government over the last decade.

Simple daily geographic aggregates, assembled from indirect manual data entry, being performed by a publishing editor, who copies from an outward facing website, provided by a client who owns the OLTP source directly?
Lawks. This isn’t 1975.

Arrange a daily output direct from the supplier.
(hint: In your current scenario only the first and last bits are relevant if you have an established relationship)

PS: Allhomes is merely one source in a competitive market allowing rental ads , so the quality of your facts are subject to any change in their market share.

There are some real bargains out there for both rent and purchase right now. It’s not a bad time to be looking.

We have a couple of properties on the market for rent at the moment and there is definitley an over supply at present – we are asking for rent lower than we were receiving three years ago and still not getting much interest!