Chapter 1: What is the main topic of the episode about apartment losses?
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The 10th day for October for 2022. It seems like it was a fairly busy auction weekend around the country and in particular in certain cities. Never let it be said that a small bid can't knock out your competition at an auction. We've talked about it before and on Saturday in Brisbane's Outer North, two bidders going back and forth fighting for a five bedroom home.
In total, nearly 40 ping pong exchanges going up and down, up and down with their paddles. But in the end, it came down to a $500 knockout bid. So there you go. If your budget can afford it, you never know when you're going to knock out your competitor. Coming up, we're going to be talking to Angie Zigamanis about the oversupply of apartments and some losses being felt by owners.
What are these areas where owners are losing money? What is happening? Because we see these shiny new modern looking tall apartment complexes. Some, as you know, have had some cracking issues. Some investors and apartment buyers are starting to look elsewhere. Where are they looking? We'll talk about that in just a moment.
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Chapter 2: What areas are experiencing significant apartment selling losses?
That's a few. Definitely. And if you look at the areas that particularly since the COVID pandemic have been challenged from a rental perspective, a lot of those areas close to universities or attract a higher level of international migrants to supply tenants to the apartments in those markets.
And with the borders closed through the COVID pandemic, it's meant that vacancy rates in those areas have shot up. Rents have dropped fairly dramatically in some locations as well. And it's just made, from an investor perspective, it's made those less attractive at the moment. And that's one of the reasons why I've seen those price declines.
And the CoreLogic pain and gain report shows that there were fewer loss-making sales in the Brisbane council area. Brisbane seems to still be pushing through on the positive slate. It does. And Brisbane was affected by low overseas migration, but it's had a huge number of COVID migrants coming north from Sydney and Melbourne over there.
And so it hasn't had the same challenges from a vacancy perspective that some of those pockets of Melbourne and Sydney have. And I guess it's always, we should point out that it's always good to have perspective because loss-making sales are rare overall. Sellers made a profit on 93.8% of resales in the June quarter across Australia. So it isn't all negative in the bigger picture. No, no.
Obviously, some locations do better than others. But also, it also just highlights that the longer you hold the property, the more likely you have a capital gain. And a lot of those locations are likely to have people who've held on to it. A lot of those resales are likely to represent people who've held on to those properties for two, three, four, five years and longer.
So the longer you hold on to it, the more likely you are to experience a capital gain. And when people are buying, say, within a 5k radius of the Sydney CBD, that market is still pretty tight. But then once you get beyond that, is it fair to say that some people are selling those units, I think, at a loss? Yeah, I think so.
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Chapter 3: Why are investors moving towards boutique apartment developments?
And I think when you look at some of the areas, as you mentioned before, the Macquarie Park corridor, Parramatta, where there's been huge leaks of new supply that have been added to the markets, there are short-term challenges, particularly in terms of finding tenants and maintaining rents in there. And that's where losses on resale have come mostly.
Cool logic last week showed overall Sydney home values are down 9% since peaking, while Melbourne has fallen 5.6%. Brisbane is down to 4.3% and Perth has fallen 0.6%. Crystal ball gazing now. Next three to four months taking us the other side of January. I mean, that's pretty scary, isn't it? Three to four months, the other side of January 2023. What do you think is likely?
You'd expect prices to keep falling over the next few months. Interest rates continue to rise. Last week, there was a rise by the Reserve Bank, and they've been rising for the last few months now.
And so those rises still haven't worked their way through, but we expect them to continue to work their way through over the next few months with further downside coming through for Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, and probably all the Australian capital cities.
Yes, and just finally, the rental market in the apartment unit space, we know that overseas migration tended to fuel that along pretty well in key areas like Sydney. During the lockdown, not so much as that sort of died away.
What are you looking to see in the next six months, for example, in the growth of numbers of international migration moving in and what that is going to do to the rental market? Yeah, well, net overseas migration is coming back very strongly. The March quarter this year actually was a record month for net overseas migration. And some of that probably reflects a bit of a post-COVID catch up.
But nevertheless, it's still coming roaring back. And you're starting to see evidence of that in some of those central city locations, locations close to universities. If you take Melbourne, for example, apartment rents in Melbourne dropped by about 30% through the COVID pandemic. And there are reports now we've already seen it going up by 10% to 20% this year.
So we're seeing strong recovery in rents in a lot of those locations. They're still below where they were pre-COVID, but they're rising pretty quickly now. All right. Good on you, Angie. Thanks for coming on to The Real Estate Podcast. I'll let you get on with it. Yeah, no problem at all. Thanks, Greg. We connect you to the best real estate information across Australia. The Real Estate Podcast.
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