The Inner Melbourne apartment market is currently experiencing a construction boom that will underpin significant completions in the coming years. What is the future for both rents and prices in the face of this burgeoning level of new supply and how quickly will it be absorbed by demand?

Inner Melbourne Apartments 2012 – 2019 continues BIS Shrapnel's series of reports on this unique component of the Melbourne residential market. The study analyses eight separate inner city apartment precincts, highlighting each of their own distinctive demand and supply profiles.

The 2012 update provides a comprehensive review of the apartment market including:

• an economic overview with interest rate forecasts
  
• a profile of apartment residents using the 2006 Census
  
• rental trends, rental yields and forecasts
  
• investor returns
  
• apartment price trends, price points and forecasts
  
• forecast supply and vacancy rates
  
• development feasibility
  

The report subsequently provides a complete update of our forecasts over the 2012 – 2019 period, including underlying demand, supply, rental, and values.

Inner Melbourne Apartments is expected to be published in April 2012.

Angie Zigomanis

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