{"id":890946,"date":"2026-06-25T03:57:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T03:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/890946\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T03:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T03:57:19","slug":"markets-live-unemployment-rate-falls-to-4-4pc-in-may-down-from-4-5pc-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/890946\/","title":{"rendered":"Markets live: Unemployment rate falls to 4.4pc in May, down from 4.5pc in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The property market research group, Cotality, has tabulated the final results from the weekend&#8217;s home auctions and found that clearance rates have only been this low three times in the past 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>The final average clearance rate across the nation came in at 42.3%, 6 percentage points lower than the week before and 6.2 percentage points lower than the corresponding weekend a year ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;The last time clearance rates fell to this level was 26 April 2020 (41.1%) a time when the Australian auction market was substantially disrupted by strict social distancing policies and a sharp deterioration in market confidence, resulting in a breakdown in normal auction activity,&#8221; Cotality economist Annabelle Mezieres said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;The downward trend in clearance rates has been apparent since mid-February, but a sub-50% reading indicates a wide gap has opened between buyer and seller pricing expectations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;Since the commencement of Cotality&#8217;s auction results in 2008, clearance rates have been this low across only three periods previously: in 2011 and 2018 as the housing market was navigating a downturn, and during the early onset of the COVID-19 pandemic when the auction dynamic was severely disrupted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;Additionally, the 4-week rolling average indicates that the weighted average clearance rate is trending downward, suggesting the decline is not merely due to a slow week but reflects a broader trend that has been unfolding since earlier this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The property market research group, Cotality, has tabulated the final results from the weekend&#8217;s home auctions and found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":890947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[12],"tags":[17705,17707,7566,64,12847,9400,79,1698,17711,135,17709,17708,17710,17706,8727,67,132,68,3642],"class_list":["post-890946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-asx","tag-australian-dollar","tag-bitcoin","tag-business","tag-dollar","tag-dow-jones","tag-economy","tag-live-blog","tag-live-update","tag-markets","tag-nasdaq","tag-nyse","tag-sp","tag-share-market","tag-stocks","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wall-street"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116808741648060270","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}