Suburbtrends Media Desk — Buyer's Leverage
Suburbtrends Media Desk
The Market-Turn Desk

Buyer's Leverage.

The markets where the pendulum has swung to the buyer — stock is above three months and still climbing. Set the slow-sale line, then rank by where vendors are discounting hardest or where homes are sitting longest.

Only markets selling slower than
30 days
20 days55 days
The angle

How to read it: every market shown clears two hard tests — more than three months of stock, and stock higher than it was a quarter ago (rising supply). From that buyer-friendly universe, the slider keeps only markets where the typical home takes longer than your line to sell. Rank by Discounting — the median gap between sale and asking price, where a negative figure means homes are selling below the asking price — or by Days on market. Use the toggle for houses, units or all (all blends the two, weighted by sales). Markets selling below asking glow green. Markets are SA3 areas; thin-turnover markets are held back. Greater Capital City areas, ABS GCCSA. Source: Suburbtrends, May 2026.

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