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NT Excerpt from the 2011 May Market report

Yet again, Darwin has confounded the critics. With its median house price increasing by 280%, predictions that its decade-long growth spurt is coming to an end seem to be premature, with RP Data crowning Darwin as the best performing city for capital growth over the year leading up to January 2011. It was also the only city in Australia that showed an increase in the median house price in January, growing by 2.5% to $550,000.

WA Excerpt from the 2011 May Market Report

Anyone with half an interest in the economic health of Western Australia has no doubt have had an earful of predictions that the state is due for another massive resources boom. Coupled with RBA governor Glenn Stevens touting the impending boom as perhaps the biggest in modern history, hitherto cautious property investors may well start jumping into the WA market with renewed vigour.

QLD Excerpt from the 2011 May Market report

The bottom of Queensland’s property market has been predicted numerous times over the past year or so. However, the mooted recovery in the tourism industry has failed to materialise thanks to the ongoing strength of the dollar, and the resources expansion – while planned – is yet to materialise, while Brisbane’s technically undersupplied market refuses to budge.

SA Excerpt from the 2011 May Market report

TAS Excerpt from the 2011 May Market report

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ACT Excerpt from the 2011 April Market Report

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NSW Excerpt from the 2011 April Market report

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