Market Insights

Since the pandemic began, new ways of working and seemingly never-ending lockdowns have driven record numbers of Australians to abandon major cities and move to the regions.

Ongoing lockdowns resulted in search activity on realcommercial.com.au dropping further last week. Increasingly stringent lockdown measures appear to be impacting demand for commercial property, with the volume of ‘Buy’ and ‘Lease’ searches falling in every …

Searches to buy and lease commercial property on realcommercial.com.au grew in most states last week. Buyer searches on realcommercial.com.au have recorded their strongest week-on-week growth since March, rising 4.9%. This was despite a sharp fall …

Seven weeks into Sydney’s lockdown with no firm end in sight, what’s the outlook for the harbour city’s commercial property market? Looking to Melbourne’s experience of a protracted lockdown in 2020 could tell us what’s likely to happen next

With multiple states going into snap lockdowns, demand for commercial property proved fairly mixed in July. Victoria hit a record high for buyer searches on realcommercial.com.au last month, in stark contrast to a locked-down New …

Commercial search activity continued to slide last week, as Victoria re-joined New South Wales and Queensland in lockdown. Searches to buy commercial property were down 0.6% last week, marking the fourth consecutive week of declines. …

Searches to buy and lease commercial property have slowed for the third week running. ‘For sale’ searches on realcommercial.com.au fell by 4.3% last week, with declines recorded across most states and territories. Despite the fall, …

Searches to buy and lease commercial property continued to slow last week as South Australia became the third state to implement a lockdown. Searches to buy property on realcommercial.com.au declined by a further 1.3% last …

COVID-19 restrictions in New South Wales have caused market activity to plummet, with Sydney’s decline in searches bringing the national volume down. Across Australia, searches to buy commercial property declined by 2.2% last week, driven …