House prices in Australia were up 2.0 percent on quarter in the third quarter of 2015, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said on Tuesday – in line with forecasts and slowing from 4.7 percent in the second quarter.
The capital city residential property price indexes rose in Sydney (+3.1 percent), Melbourne (+2.9 percent), Brisbane (+1.3 percent), Adelaide (+1.2 percent), Canberra (+1.3 percent) and Hobart (+0.5) and fell in Perth (-2.4 percent) and Darwin (-0.4 percent).
On a yearly basis, house prices jumped 10.7 percent – beating expectations for 10.2 percent and up from 9.8 percent in the three months prior.
Annually, residential property prices rose in Sydney (+19.9 percent), Melbourne (+9.9 percent), Canberra (+4.0 percent), Brisbane (+3.8 percent), Adelaide (+3.5 percent) and Hobart (+1.7 percent) and fell in Perth (-3.3 percent) and Darwin (-2.0 percent).
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