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It's been almost a week since the government unveiled changes to negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount aimed at helping more people enter the housing market. Economist, Nerida Conisbee says recent data shows the market seems could be cooling, compared to this time last year.

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00:02When we have a look at the row white clearance rate, it dropped from 65% at the same time
00:07last year to around 56%, so clearly fewer properties clearing.
00:11But probably more interesting is looking at open home data, so that's where we saw some
00:17pretty big changes.
00:18So the number of people attending open homes dropped from 3.4 on average last year, same
00:25week last year, to 2.1.
00:27It was a little bit mixed, depending on what city you're in, so Adelaide did remain pretty
00:33high, so still quite a lot of activity in Adelaide, but then go across to Melbourne and
00:37it was sitting at about sort of 1.9, so again, we're seeing a very diverse property market
00:44where some cities are still relatively strong, but others are weakening quite quickly.
00:49We started to see a drop off in a number of people attending open homes pretty much at
00:53the start of the Middle East conflict.
00:55So when consumer sentiment dropped to that record low level, but absolutely the market
01:00was slowing down considerably even before the budget.
01:05I mean, it has to slow.
01:07I mean, if you're looking at places like Perth and Brisbane now, they're still running at
01:10sort of 15% to 20% price growth per annum, which clearly isn't a comfortable situation for anyone.
01:23So let's get started.
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