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‘Unprecedented’: Adelaide house prices continue rapid climb

More than two-thirds of Adelaide properties are on track to grow in value by more than 10 per cent this year as real estate prices continue to spiral, according to a new breakdown of the metropolitan property market.

Sep 20, 2021, updated Feb 21, 2022
Housing and urban sprawl in Seaford (Photo: Tony Lewis/InDaily).

Housing and urban sprawl in Seaford (Photo: Tony Lewis/InDaily).

The PointData Lay of the Land Spring Edition, released today, shows 73 per cent of properties in metropolitan Adelaide have had an annualised price growth of 10 per cent or more in the six months to August 2021.

The proportion of Adelaide properties experiencing this level of growth is up 61 percentage points from when PointData last gauged the metric in May of 2021.

In fact, the property analytics company only introduced the “+10 per cent” category at the start of this year in a bid to capture a “significant but not overwhelming number of rapidly growing properties, particularly in the city’s east”.

When the category was first included in its Lay of the Land Summer Edition, just seven per cent of Adelaide properties fit the +10 per cent criteria.

“This category has now grown to include 73 per cent of metropolitan Adelaide’s properties,” the report states.

“In spring 2020 only 70 per cent of properties were seeing any growth at all, underlining just how unprecedented this period of growth has been.”

PointData’s breakdown of property price growth in metropolitan Adelaide, with 73 per cent of houses now experiencing annualised growth of more than 10 per cent.

A further 19 per cent of Adelaide’s homes have an annualised growth rate between five and 10 per cent.

“It is no secret that property prices in metropolitan Adelaide have been increasing rapidly since the early stages of the pandemic,” the report continues.

“However … this growth has been greater in speed and magnitude than anyone could’ve predicted.”

Auctions continue to be the key driver of the rapid house price growth, according to PointData, which cited figures from Ray White showing the average number of registered bidders per auction grew to 6.9 in July, compared to 2.6 the year before.

“It is no longer uncommon to have dozens of registered bidders at any given auction,” the report states.

“Sustained low interest rates set by the Reserve Bank is seeing an increase in borrowing power.

“Combined with the short periods for real estate campaigns, the slowing in supply … and the prolonged interstate interest in the Adelaide housing market, property prices are expected to (at a minimum) hold their current inflated values.”

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PointData, a national firm specialising in predictive analytics and AI, draws sales data from Land Services SA and uses machine learning to turn big data into property information across hundreds of 400-person sized statistical areas.

The spring report also identifies the top 10 suburbs by annualised growth over the past three months.

The city’s eastern suburbs and inner-south continue to dominate, with Glen Osmond leading the way at 49.2 per cent, followed by Clarence Gardens (45.3 per cent) and Toorak Gardens (43.7 per cent).

No.SuburbThree month annualised price growth
1.   Glen Osmond49.21 per cent
2.   Clarence Gardens45.34 per cent
3.    Toorak Gardens43.76 per cent
4.   Black Forest43.46 per cent
5.    Urrbrae42.48 per cent
6.    Hazelwood Park41.75 per cent
7.    Dulwich40.16 per cent
8.  Stonyfell39.11 per cent
9.      Glandore38.76 per cent
10.Burnside38.39 per cent
The top ten Adelaide suburbs by three-month annualised price growth, according to PointData

Of the top 10 price growth suburbs, only three – Glandore, Black Forest and Clarence Gardens – have a median sale price under $1 million.

Glandore is the most accessible with a median price of $689,477 but has a three month annualised growth rate of 38.8 per cent, prompting a warning from PointData that these previously inexpensive suburbs are becoming “increasingly unaffordable”.

“Although seemingly unlikely, another year of 39 per cent growth for Glandore would see the median sale price jump to over $950,000, with Glen Osmond potentially reaching in excess of $1.7 million,” the report states.

Only Mawson Lakes and Crafers West recorded price decreases in the three months to August this year, with the fall in prices attributed to the absence of international students at UniSA’s Mawson Lakes campus and low sales activity in the “difficult terrain” around Crafers.

A full list of suburbs by annualised growth can be viewed here

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