SYDNEY'S "ballistic" property market is becoming intensely secret, as buyers splurge thousands to see exclusive listings and sellers stamp out public viewings.
Vendors can no longer cope with massive crowds - sometimes up to 200 people - inspecting homes.
Now, up to half of Sydney's property market is being sold silently, industry sources said.
Real estate agents said vendors no longer needed to advertise, with record buyer numbers wanting to capitalise on equity before interest rates go up. Agents said they no longer called buyers back because there were simply too many people ready to purchase.
Instead of paying for advertising in newspapers or the internet, agents send exclusive listings to buyers via text message or email.
At one address that was not advertised last week, VIP Portfolio buyers agent Michael Fenech
privately showed an apartment in Sydney's inner suburbs to his client on Friday - before the usual weekend stampede.
The Daily Telegraph signed a statement promising not to identify the building in any way - but to buy one will cost you an extra $9000 for Mr Fenech's service.
"Thousands of properties never go on the market, they sell and no one knows about it," he said.
Vendors were tired of managing crowds of buyers storming through their properties every weekend, he said. "Up to 60 per cent of properties are never advertised," Mr Fenech said.
"People would rather go to an agent and do it on the quiet. It lets them get an offer before they have 60 people walking through the house every Saturday.
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Apr 27, 2010
Rising interest rates to hit renters hard
INTEREST rate rises during the next two years is going to hit tenants hard as the cost of escalating mortgage payments is passed on to tennants. TENANTS can expect to pay out an extra $5 billion or more in the next two years as landlords push up rents to cover spiralling mortgage costs.
Property analyst Residex and the country's biggest real estate chain Ray White say the Reserve Bank's lifting of interest rates is flowing straight through to the rental market.
A shortage of available properties and increased population are adding to the rate pressure, with weekly rents expected to rise between $40 and $100 in the next two years.
"Every force in the marketplace will be driving rents higher,'' Ray White director Ben White says.
"The mortgages of rental property owners are becoming more expensive, so it's inevitable that this will result in rents going up,'' White says.
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Property analyst Residex and the country's biggest real estate chain Ray White say the Reserve Bank's lifting of interest rates is flowing straight through to the rental market.
A shortage of available properties and increased population are adding to the rate pressure, with weekly rents expected to rise between $40 and $100 in the next two years.
"Every force in the marketplace will be driving rents higher,'' Ray White director Ben White says.
"The mortgages of rental property owners are becoming more expensive, so it's inevitable that this will result in rents going up,'' White says.
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Apr 13, 2010
Home loan demand falls for fifth month
DEMAND for home loans continued to wane in February, even before the two latest interest rate increases, data released today shows. Just 50,287 mortgages were granted to owner-occupiers in February, down by a seasonally-adjusted 1.8 per cent compared to January, the fifth consecutive month of decline, Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows.
Economists' forecasts had centred on 1 per cent fall in February home loan commitments.
In trend terms - which the ABS says is a more reliable indicator of underlying movement in the data - the total value of dwelling finance commitments excluding alterations and additions decreased 2.1 per cent in February.
ICAP economist Adam Carr said the lending data would concern the RBA, causing the Bank to reassess the pace of future interest rate rises.
"It's pointing to a sharp, broad-based decline in lending activity," Mr Carr said.
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Economists' forecasts had centred on 1 per cent fall in February home loan commitments.
In trend terms - which the ABS says is a more reliable indicator of underlying movement in the data - the total value of dwelling finance commitments excluding alterations and additions decreased 2.1 per cent in February.
ICAP economist Adam Carr said the lending data would concern the RBA, causing the Bank to reassess the pace of future interest rate rises.
"It's pointing to a sharp, broad-based decline in lending activity," Mr Carr said.
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Apr 6, 2010
Melbourne house price jump leads nation
MELBOURNE'S house prices have outperformed every city in Australia, new benchmark real estate figures show.
According to RP Data-Rismark's Australian housing report, released yesterday, in the three months to the end of February, Melbourne's property prices grew 5.4 per cent.In the same quarter property in Darwin increased 4.2 per cent, the Sydney market was up 3.8 per cent and Adelaide rose 2.5 per cent.
Over the year to February, Melbourne's prices were up an impressive 19.9 per cent.
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