Gone in four hours: LendLease sells all 391 Sydney apartments
[SYDNEY] All 391 apartments offered by LendLease Group at a project in Sydney were snapped up in just four hours on Saturday, indicating demand for inner-city homes remains buoyant despite looming oversupply.
More than 400 potential buyers turned up from 8 am in Darling Square, a development on the western edge of Sydney's central business district, for the apartments that were priced from A$630,000 (S$624,000) for a studio to A$3.5 million for a three-bedroom penthouse, LendLease said in an e-mailed statement.
The sellout at the project, the final stage of LendLease's 1,500-apartment development, comes amid renewed investor confidence after a regulatory clampdown led to stiffer lending standards for landlords.
About 47 per cent of new home loans were to investors in March, the highest in seven months, according to government data. The nation's biggest lenders reduced their mortgage rates after the central bank cut its benchmark on May 3 to 1.75 per cent.
The demand for the homes comes as 34,300 new apartments are due to be completed in the next year, with the number set to more than double to 81,696 in the next 24 months, as soaring home prices led to a building boom, according to research firm CoreLogic Inc.
The Darling Square precinct is due to be completed in 2019. The A$3.4 billion project will house 4,200 residents, according to LendLease.
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