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THIS home at 2 Amaroo Drive, Buderim is listed for $2 million plus offers. Picture: supplied realestate.com.au

THIS home at 2 Amaroo Drive, Buderim is listed for $2 million plus offers. Picture: supplied realestate.com.au
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THIS house at 2 Amaroo Drive, Buderim is listed for offers from $2 million plus through Next Property Group, Buderim. Picture...

THIS house at 2 Amaroo Drive, Buderim is listed for offers from $2 million plus through Next Property Group, Buderim. Picture: Supplied realestate.com.au
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A luxury home at 22 Arrowgrass Rd, Canning Vale has been listed through Quinn Real Estate for $1.295 million. Picture: Suppli...

A luxury home at 22 Arrowgrass Rd, Canning Vale has been listed through Quinn Real Estate for $1.295 million. Picture: Supplied realestate.com.au
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IN Canning Vale, Western Australia, $1.295 million will buy you a home at 22 Arrowgrass Rd, with a home theatre. Picture: Sup...

IN Canning Vale, Western Australia, $1.295 million will buy you a home at 22 Arrowgrass Rd, with a home theatre. Picture: Supplied realestate.com.au
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WHILE population figures might show a steady migration to the north, the most popular places to buy a house or unit are definitely in the southern states.


Pakenham, about 53km southeast from the Melbourne CBD is the most popular place to buy a house in Australia with a massive 806 changing hands in the past 12 months.

Close behind was Port Macquarie in New South Wales where 792 houses sold during the same period.

In all there were 23 suburbs throughout the country which had more than 500 house sales.

The majority of the top selling suburbs had low median house prices and were at least 12km from the CBD.

Queensland had only one suburb with more than 500 sales — Buderim, on the Sunshine Coast where 511 houses sold in the past year.

Buderim had the highest number of house sales in Queensland in 2013. Picture: supplied realestate.com.au

Buderim had the highest number of house sales in Queensland in 2013. Picture: supplied realestate.com.au
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According to realestate.com.au there is plenty to choose from in the suburb with 267 houses currently listed for sale ranging in price from $345,000 for a three-bedroom brick home to $2 million plus offers for a house at Amaroo Drive with five-bedrooms, Ocean views and a heated swimming pool.

The highest number of house sales in South Australia was in Morphett Vale where 437 houses changed hands. The median house price in the suburb is an affordable $281,000. The highest priced home listed for sale in the suburb at the moment is $420,000.

Western Australia was well represented with five suburbs achieving more than 500 houses sales, including Canning Vale, in Perth, with a median house price of $582,750 and 616 transactions.

Properties on the market in Canning Vale at the moment include a three-bedroom house at 22 Arrowgrass Road which is listed for $1.295 million.

Canning Vale recorded the most house sales in Western Australia in the past year. Picture: Supplied realestate.com.au

Canning Vale recorded the most house sales in Western Australia in the past year. Picture: Supplied realestate.com.au
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Rosebery in Palmerston had the highest house sale levels in the Northern Territory with 215 houses selling.

Supply is tight in the suburb with only 28 houses listed for sale on realestate.com.au priced from $485,000 for a three-bedroom house to $830,000 for a five-bedroom home which was built in 2010.

In the unit market Melbourne’s CBD overtook the traditional unit king, Surfers Paradise, for the highest number of sales in the past 12 months.

There was a massive 1185 units sold in Melbourne and 1167 in Surfers Paradise.

Ten suburbs in Australia achieved more than 500 unit sales with the majority of those in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria.

Hobart was the smallest market with its best performer Sandy Bay where 93 units sold.

Most popular suburbs for houses

(number sold past 12 months)

Pakenham, VIC — 806

Port Macquarie, NSW — 792

Berwick, VIC — 757

Dubbo, NSW — 684

Point Cook, VIC — 684

Frankston, VIC — 677

Mildura, VIC — 667

Craigieburn, VIC — 633

Canning Vale, WA — 616

Orange, NSW — 607

Baldivis WA — 581

Sunbury, VIC -576

Ellenbrook, WA — 563

Gosnells, WA — 559

Castle Hill, NSW — 551

Kellyville, NSW — 526

Blacktown, NSW — 518

Reservoir, VIC — 518

Baulkham Hills, NSW — 517

Thornlie, WA — 517

Buderim, QLD — 511

Glen Waverley, VIC — 509

Werribee, VIC — 506

Most popular suburb for units

(number sold in past 12 months)

Melbourne, VIC — 1185

Surfers Paradise, QLD — 1167

Dee Why, NSW — 619

Parramatta, NSW — 612

Southport, QLD — 607

Southbank, VIC — 567

Woolloongong, NSW — 566

Rhodes, NSW — 566

Brisbane City QLD — 552

Sydney, NSW — 526

Source: RP Data