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Most capital cities’ top 10% of markets surpassed by Sydney’s median price

By Staff Reporter
27 November 2017 | 5 minute read
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CoreLogic’s latest Property Pulse takes a look at the capital cities’ top and bottom 10 per cent of the market to assess how property markets are performing overall.

According to CoreLogic research analyst Cameron Kusher, the current median dwelling value is at $650,930, while the bottom 10 per cent is at $350,723, with a difference between the median and bottom 10 per cent of -46.1 per cent.

The top 10 per cent is at $1,455,490, which shows a 123.6 per cent difference between the median and the top 10 per cent.

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Mr Kusher then breaks down each capital city across the country as follows:

Sydney

Median: $905,917
Bottom 10 per cent: $563,459
Top 10 per cent: $1,936,633

Melbourne

Median: $710,420
Bottom 10 per cent: $437,519
Top 10 per cent: $1,474,777

Brisbane

Median: $490,525
Bottom 10 per cent: $302,177
Top 10 per cent: $826,860

Adelaide

Median: $430,303
Bottom 10 per cent: $265,730
Top 10 per cent: $746,497

Perth

Median: $462,624
Bottom 10 per cent: $299,293
Top 10 per cent: $852,021

Hobart

Median: $396,393
Bottom 10 per cent: $234,337
Top 10 per cent: $662,519

Darwin

Median: $437,910
Bottom 10 per cent: $301,889
Top 10 per cent: $640,087

Canberra

Median: $582,882
Bottom 10 per cent: $381,100
Top 10 per cent: $919,436

Aside from Melbourne and Canberra, the median price in Sydney surpassed the rest of the capital cities’ top 10 per cent markets, which indicated that there are properties of a comparable quality to Sydney’s in other capital cities.

“Another trend to note is that in all capital cities, the difference between the median and [bottom 10 per cent] value is much smaller than the gap between the median and the [top 10 per cent] value,” Mr Kusher said.

“This indicates that lower value housing stock tends to be closer to the median than the expensive housing stock, which tends to be much further away from the median value. It highlights that in most cities, while there is extremely expensive housing, there is not necessarily the same supply of extremely affordable housing.

“It is interesting to look at the range of housing costs across the city as it reiterates that, despite the focus on medians, there is a wide variety of housing in different shapes, sizes and values across the capital cities.”

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