Market Insights

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 …

After a strong May, demand for commercial property on realcommercial.com.au dipped slightly in June. However, South Australia and the Northern Territory bucked the trend last month, recording record volumes of ‘Buy’ searches. In the ‘Lease’ …

Searches to buy and lease property on realcommercial.com.au bounced back last week. ‘For sale’ searches on realcommercial.com.au increased by 2.4% last week. Search volumes were up in every state except Queensland, which recorded a slight …

COVID-19 lockdowns across several Australian states resulted in searches to lease commercial properties falling sharply last week. Searches to buy property were largely flat. Searches to buy commercial property held relatively steady over the past …