With plenty of December sale results still to be declared and agents reporting an unusually busy late-year run of auctions, property analysts said 2020 property spending was set to dwarf 2019 transactions.
CoreLogic data showed the total value of NSW sales over the year to September was already nearly 19 per cent higher than over the same period in 2019, while in Sydney it was 20 per cent higher.
David and Rachel Anderson sold their Ryde home for $100,000 more than they expected. Picture:Justin Lloyd
There was also a bump in national sales, with close to $285 billion spent across the country - a 10.3 per cent increase on the same period in 2019.