When the World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 a global pandemic in March 2020, the world collectively took a sharp inhale – and the housing market? Well, it hopped on a rollercoaster most people didn’t see coming. Five years later, how did property markets fare? Well, a new report from CoreLogic has unpacked the wild property ride from those fearful early days to today. According to the report, the early pandemic days felt like a free fall. National housing values dipped by 1.7 per cent as border closures, social distancing, and a general sense of uncertainty had buyers hesitating. But then […]