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It's the Real Estate Podcast, brought to you by Ray White, the largest real estate and property group in Australasia. And welcome to another episode of the Real Estate Podcast, available on iHeartRadio, also on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast from. It's the weekend, the 2nd of April. If you are house buying and have auctions to attend and bounced out of bed this morning, I hope that you are successful. Today's the day for many first home buyers hopefully to secure their first home and when you are in the market to buy, particularly your first home, the weekend revolves around property, doesn't it? Looking at open homes, doing drive-bys, scanning online listings and then the ultimate auctions themselves where everything is on the line.
So Good luck right across Australia, wherever you are, and fingers crossed for the results to go your way. It's the main centre forecast with propertybuyer.com.au. Okay, let's have a look at weather for Sydney, expecting rain to clear with 22 degrees. Melbourne, a few showers today with 19. Brisbane, partly cloudy with 28. And in Perth, expecting a high of 30 degrees and partly cloudy. We feature market updates, interviews and trends. It's your real estate podcast for breakfast. And coming up, we're going to have a look at the slowdown in the property market both here in Australia and in New Zealand and break down some of the markets. And also coming up, we're going to play you part of a conversation we had with a cardiologist all about looking after your heart.
which I learned a few things from the conversation, as you will as well. And it's all about prevention. And in the conversation, there is a certain aspect which relates to the real estate industry and a bad practice which will put the heart under stress. So I'll reveal all of that coming up shortly. It's your weekend real estate podcast. Well, it looks like Australia's property market of price growth continues to slow, with some cities stalling completely while others are defying the cooling trend. The new PropTrack Home Price Index report for March shows a considerable slowing of momentum across the country. Nationally, dwelling prices edged upwards by 0.34% last month, substantially below the rapid pace of growth seen throughout 2021 and about half the decade average it was the slowest month rate of growth in two years that's according to prop track south australia recorded the highest rate of home price growth in the month up by 1.03 percent
with Adelaide the standout performer of the capital cities with home prices up 0.84%. That's according to the index. Prices fell very slightly in Melbourne in March down to 0.02% with larger falls of 0.11% recorded in Perth and the Northern Territory down by 0.13%. In Sydney, several months of slowing growth continued last month. with a slight increase of 0.32%, while New South Wales saw a lift of 0.76%. Brisbane, another star performer in 2021, also saw continued cooling in March, with prices up 0.49%. Regional areas continue to outperform the capitals. Prices have increased 24% over the past year in regional areas, but only 15% in the capitals. Over the past year, growth standouts have been Brisbane, of course, regional Queensland, which we've talked about, regional New South Wales, and Australian Capital Territory.
Now that trend, according to PropTrack, is expected to continue at least for the first half of 2022, with the appeal of regional areas remaining strong. And PropTrack also says one of the main factors driving slowing price growth over the past several months is the reduced influence of slower mortgage interest rates. They say that while rate watchers await the Reserve Bank's first increase in official rates since late 2010, which some expect to happen within months, lenders have already made moves, especially on fixed rate loans. The average rate paid on new owner-occupier loans is now 2.5%, representing the first increases in several years. Another trend expected this year, they say, is the continued resurgence of investor activity in property markets.
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