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Welcome to this week’s Australia Weekly Property Market Report from Ham Kerr Property. The Melbourne property market entered a new phase over the weekend ending Sunday, 18 October 2026, since Victoria’s new auction reserve-price disclosure rules began to apply to residential auctions and fixed-date sales. Agents and sellers now have another thing to manage, with Melbourne reserve price disclosure

This week’s Australia Weekly Property Market Report shows that Australia’s spring property market is still under pressure. National auction clearance rates stayed below 50% for the second weekend in a row, even though auction activity increased.

Melbourne’s property market entered its traditional AFL Grand Final pause over the weekend ending Sunday, 27 September 2026. Only a fraction of the properties that would normally come to auction were listed, giving buyers, sellers and agents a short interruption before the expected return of much heavier spring activity in October.

Melbourne’s spring auction market faced its most meaningful test so far over the weekend ending Sunday, 20 September 2026. More properties came to market, but the larger supply of homes was met with a softer clearance rate.

This Australia Weekly Property Market Report finds Melbourne’s spring auction market gathering momentum, with volumes rising materially and clearance rates holding above 60% across several preliminary datasets. For vendors coming out of a weak winter, that is encouraging. Even so, conditions remain substantially more sensitive to buyer budgets than they were a year ago.

Australia’s final weekend of winter delivered a modest lift in auction activity and clearance rates, providing the first meaningful signs of the usual seasonal move into spring. Even so, the broader market remains substantially weaker than it was a year ago, while renewed concern about another Reserve Bank rate increase is likely to keep buyers cautious and disciplined.

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Melbourne recorded a 59% Domain clearance rate from 373 reported auctions, with 221 sales, 87 properties passing in and 65 withdrawals. The median auction price was $910,500.

While this represented an improvement on some of Melbourne’s weaker winter weekends, the result remained below the 66% recorded at the same time last year.