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NAB has sharply upgraded its 2017 property price forecasts after a survey showed confidence in the Australian housing market striking a three-year peak. The developments follow news earlier this week of capital city dwelling prices rising at their fastest annual clip in seven years for the 12 months to March 31.

報導介紹AP Assets代理的曼谷樓花盤Blossom，入場價62萬起。區域銷售董事張芷君指曼谷市中區有多個大規模發展項目正在進行，相信未來將吸引大量海外投資者，帶動樓市。

The biggest commercial construction boom in Melbourne for more than two decades will create the climate for the shift in capital city market focus. By contrast Sydney is facing a contraction in its market with office space being withdrawn to make way for the Metro Rail project. Towers are also being converted to other uses, including residential and hotels. Melbourne's impending office supply boom, however, is expected to favour tenants, pushing vacancy rates in the city centre to a 20-year high of 10.7 per cent by 2020, according to research by Investa, one of Australia's largest property groups.

Sydney and Melbourne's sizzling housing markets stepped up the pressure on buyers last week as both cities recorded auction clearance rates of more than 80 per cent. The stronger figures, driven in part by a Melbourne auction market down by almost 500 properties from last week, pulled the preliminary national auction clearance rate up to 78.1 per cent from 74.5 per cent a week earlier, CoreLogic figures showed.

New figures from SQM Research show that while the national vacancy rate held steady at 2.4% in February, vacancy rates in several capital cities have seen a decline.

報導介紹AP Assets代理的墨爾本Garden Square項目， 區域銷售董事張芷君指墨爾本人口不斷上升引發住屋需求，而項目附近的Ringwood正是其中一個重點開發地區，潛力不容忽視。