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Australia's housing market surpasses $9 trillion for the first time, home owners are worrying about the outlook for next year.
The total value of Australia's 10.7 million residential dwellings rose by five per cent or $487 billion in the September quarter to $9.3 trillion, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said on Tuesday.
'The value of Australia's dwelling stock has risen by nearly $1 trillion in the past six months,' ABS head of prices statistics Michelle Marquardt said.
The value of Australia's 10.7 million residential dwellings rose by $487 billion in the September quarter to $9.3 trillion
'By comparison, the previous increase of just over $1 trillion took 15 months, rising from $7.2 trillion in the December quarter 2019 to $8.4 trillion in the March quarter 2021.'
The ABS residential property prices index shows house prices rose 5.7 per cent in the September quarter, while attached dwelling prices rose 3.1 per cent.
The index also shows prices rose 21.7 per cent over the year, the strongest growth since the series began in the September quarter of 2003.
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