Canberra’s Property Market Outlook

Reports are showing a more positive outlook for the ACT property sector despite continuing concerns about the Federal political environment and the outlook for economic growth in the Territory.

The Property Council of Australia-ANZ Property Industry Confidence Survey showed a shift in sentiment from 94 on the index for the March quarter to 101 for the June quarter. A score of 100 on the index is considered neutral. 

Catherine Carter, Property Council ACT Executive Director says the latest Survey shows the ACT was the only state or territory that recorded a shift from overall negative sentiment in the March quarter to positive sentiment in the June quarter.

Confidence in house price growth has also shifted from a negative outlook to a positive outlook between the two quarters.

ANZ Head of Property Research, Paul Braddick, says ACT respondents to the survey had a “moderately balanced view of the property sector, with a confidence index of 101, reflecting an uncertain outlook for ACT employment with the existing budget pressures and a sharp unwinding of the boom in dwelling construction through 2011.”