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In the past year Brisbane has gone from Australia's busiest housing market to its slowest. While auction clearance rates are picking up again, real estate agents say there's less competition in the market potentially creating an opportunity for first-home buyers.

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00:01Around 50 people watch on as more than a dozen bidders jostle for a brand new build in Brisbane's south.
00:07Second call, a $2 million the bid, yep $25 there.
00:11This four bedroom home sold after auction for $2.15 million, helping lift Brisbane's clearance rate from one of its
00:18lowest points in years.
00:20The market has slowed down and buyers have very much become empowered.
00:2443% of auctions had a successful result last week, up from just 23.5% the week before.
00:32Overall, the market hasn't caught up with this time last year, when clearance rates were at 63%.
00:3832-year-old Nicole Penghillie has just bought and is about to move in to her first home.
00:43I am most looking forward to never having to move again.
00:46She tried to buy two years ago, but every open home she went to was crammed with buyers.
00:50When I was going to open homes this time, there would be far less people there and the real estate
00:57agents were kind of more pursuing you more this time around.
01:01Agents say property investors have taken a step back, spooked by changes to housing taxes in the federal budget.
01:07The immediate effect is 50%, nearly 50% of all of our buyers have basically left the room.
01:13But realtors don't think house prices are going to fall because of strong population growth from interstate migration.
01:20The Olympics is around the corner, so we desperately need more tradies and we are expecting that population growth to
01:27continue.
01:28We are definitely still seeing a large migration. 95% of our buyers are migrating buyers.
01:33A better market for first home buyers, but only if they can afford the price of entry.
01:38Based on the military.
01:40Are you looking for that?
01:41Are you looking for that?
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