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根据澳大利亚联邦储备银行报告,墨尔本的房市价格将继续走低保持疲软状态。
这一不常见的大胆评估很可能会抑制近期不断增长的“随着人们信心的增强和拍卖清空率的高升,两年期的市场低潮将结束”的预测。
储备银行半年期的财务稳定性评论将墨尔本归为全国最疲软市场之一,并指出潜在的市中心和边缘apartment和新房过剩的问题。
不断增长的房源使墨尔本的住宅房屋价格继续下降,并且会比其他大城市的市场价格恢复小。
美林的主席经济学家Saul Eslake联邦储备银行发表这么详细的预测是不太寻常的
A record number of new apartments in some of Melbourne's most popular inner suburbs will put further pressure on the city's infrastructure and services, although tenants are set to enjoy cheaper rents.
The number of apartments built in South Yarra, Richmond, Prahran, Footscray and Abbotsford between 2010 and 2014 will be double that of the whole previous decade.
About 25,500 units will be completed by the end of next year in metropolitan Melbourne, four times what was built in 2005, when the market for apartments last peaked, according to analysts Charter Keck Cramer.
The figures do not include many of the 20 high-rise projects approved by Planning Minister Matthew Guy in the past 28 months or plans for 17 towers in the new inner-city suburb of Montague.
While the boost to stocks promises to be a boon for renters, concerns are being raised that services may struggle to cope with the concentration of new residents in the inner suburbs.
''As the population grows, infrastructure needs to be increased to match it or there is an imbalance,'' said Ian Wood, a town planner and president of residents lobby group Save Our Suburbs.
''The government seems to be looking at the building of these towers as a way to create jobs without considering what the social impacts will be."
Population in the inner suburbs where the growth is concentrated has increased 18 per cent overall in five years, according to the 2011 census.
Pressure is also growing on the city's public transport network, with train patronage rising 40 per cent in the past five years. Tram patronage is also up by almost a third since 2004-05.
The flood of new stock is expected to depress rents and potentially cause a blowout in vacancies in popular inner-city areas, leaving landlords facing poor returns.
The effects are already being felt at the higher end of the market.
To help cope with the oversupply, some agents are ''reloading'' rental listings - erasing the ad of a property that has been sitting on the market and then relisting it as newly available with a lower price. Others are offering teasers such as a month's free rent in a bid to get people to sign leases.
Fairfax-owned Australian Property Monitors reports the median asking rent for an apartment in Melbourne has held steady at $350 a week in the two years to December, one of the longest periods on record without a rise.
And some estate agents report landlords are now being forced to discount rents by 10 per cent or more as a result of the soaring number of units becoming available.
''We had one rented at $430 and we've just re-let it for $380 after it was vacant for four weeks,'' said Biggin Scott director Chris O'Shaughnessy. ''It's unheralded to see one and two-bedroom flats sitting around vacant for four or six weeks.''
''Some owners are finding it nearly impossible to understand that rentals don't always go up,'' he added.
But Rob Farmer, chief executive of RUN Property, one of the largest property managers in the city, said that while the influx of new apartments was making it tougher for landlords, it certainly wasn't a ''renter's nirvana''.
''When you get up to the higher end of the market - $600 to $800 a week - it's definitely a renter's market. But for lower-value properties you've still got extremely low vacancy rates and queues at open-for-inspections, so it's definitely a landlord's market.''
To soak up the large numbers of new units, it is estimated that more than a third of all new arrivals in Melbourne over the next two years would have to opt to live in an apartment.
''In order for all of these apartments to be absorbed there will have to be a significant shift in housing choices over the short term towards apartments by both new households as well as the existing Melbourne community,'' CKC analyst Robert Papaleo said.
Oversupply has been a problem in the CBD and Southbank market at times, but for the first time it is spreading to other inner suburbs.
Competition for tenants is fierce when dozens, even hundreds, of apartments in the same project are completed and put on the market for lease at the same time.
It is a sharp reversal of conditions in 2007-08, when a shortage of affordable inner-city properties saw long lines, rental ''auctions'' and steep rental rises lead to a wide perception of a ''rental crisis''.
Long-time renter Chris Hobbs has noticed the change as he has kept his eye on the market in North Fitzroy, Fitzroy, Collingwood, Richmond and Abbotsford.
''For the last seven or eight years, renting - and I've had to do it a number of times - has been a case of turning up with 20 or 30 people and get your application in on the day, otherwise you've got no chance at all,'' he said.
''It certainly wasn't come down to the agent's office, pick up the keys, go for a wander through the apartment and make up your mind.'' |
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