"...... The verdict Mr Bayley says auction clearance rates aren't transparent, real or representative of what happens at auctions on any given day. APM does not include a significant number of auctions in its calculation of clearance rates, nor does it include this number in its results reports, although it publishes the number of total listings the previous week. RP Data includes the number of total listings in its reports but does not use it when it calculates its clearance rates. Mr Bayley's claim checks out."
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We've known for ages that auction stats are a joke.
This should be the first story on the ABC news, on the 7:30 report, a story on Four Corners, and repeatedly on Q&A.
But they won't do that, so fuck the ABC.
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Mr Bayley says auction clearance rates aren't transparent, real or representative of what happens at auctions on any given day. APM does not include a significant number of auctions in its calculation of clearance rates
The APM results are just a free sample. They don't claim to have all the data - how can APM (or anyone) be expected to collect the result of every auction in Australia, and then compile this data into a report ready for release at 6PM each Saturday, and do this all for free? It's impossible.
Using Bayley's logic, Australia's real unemployment rate is over 99%, because we must assume that all the people not included in the monthly ABS employment survey are unemployed. The monthly ABS unemployment survey uses a much smaller sample set (as a proportion of the total population) compared to the APM auction survey. At least with the APM auction survey, they do include MOST auctions, whereas the ABS unemployment survey only samples about 50,000 people each month, which is a tiny fraction of Australia's adult population.
Later in the week, the REINSW publish a more complete set of auction results, and they still put the NSW clearance rate in the seventies and eighties for the past few months, so Bayley's claim that all auctions unreported by 6PM on Saturday must be treated as failed auctions is total bunkum...
The APM results are just a free sample. They don't claim to have all the data - how can APM (or anyone) be expected to collect the result of every auction in Australia, and then compile this data into a report ready for release at 6PM each Saturday.......
I'm quite happy for them to take a week to get it right.
I don't need dodgy stuff just because it's quick and free.
Its simply industry propaganda.
Maybe the abc fact checkers could cast an eye over the reinsw stats as well?
Maybe they could examine a few more of the bears complaints about the dodgy propaganda (ie, cute yound real estate agents make up only 0.3% of first home buyers but make up 90% of news articles about first home buyers).
Suck it up Shaddow, APM, a wholey owned subsidiary of a major newspaper group that generates most of it's revenue from real estate ads is serving it's own interests.
And you feel you need to protect then by making up a straw man argument about ABS stats! LOL, most bears understand that ABS stats are also shiite, and lo and behold, it is the bulls who stick up for those stats as well!
At least you are consistent in your inconsistency!
N.B. I assume that cute young real estate agents would make up 0.3%, but maybe they could make up more, I am certain however they don't make up most, as per their representation representation rate in 'news' articles.
On topic though, I would expect a company that calls itself Australian Property Monitors to be accurate in their statistics about property. Not mostly accurate, but absolutely accurate. Perhaps with a little margin for error, but not much.
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I'm quite happy for them to take a week to get it right.
That's fine - you should wait for the more complete REINSW results later in the week then. But there is still a demand for a more immediate (if incomplete) estimate on Saturday evenings, which APM provide for free. And that estimate proves to be accurate within a few percent when the later results come in. The Saturday evening auction results have always had this limitation, yet they have still proven to be a remarkably good indicator of market conditions, with a close correlation to house price movements...
On topic though, I would expect a company that calls itself Australian Property Monitors to be accurate in their statistics about property. Not mostly accurate, but absolutely accurate. Perhaps with a little margin for error, but not much.
I do indeed need a new keyboard. Mine is siezing up from the bull shit that dribbles out of my screen whenever I view this site
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On topic though, I would expect a company that calls itself Australian Property Monitors to be accurate in their statistics about property. Not mostly accurate, but absolutely accurate. Perhaps with a little margin for error, but not much.
For any data (about anything) you can only ever pick two of the three...
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The APM results are free and timely. You can't expect them to be complete.
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