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Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s decision to ban on-site and in-room auctions caused a major disruption for sellers this week but it failed to halt transaction activity as agents adapted with online auctions and private treaty sales.

Preliminary data from CoreLogic revealed the weekly auction clearance rate for Sydney auctions was 47.3 per cent, down from 58.8 per cent the week prior, with the majority of properties that failed to clear reported as “withdrawals”.

Many of those properties reverted to private treaty sales, with early indicators suggesting at least 400 of the nearly 1260 auctions originally scheduled for the week shifted

In order to understand how shelter in place and stay at home orders are impacting the real estate industry across the country, the Redfin legal team has put together a resource that tracks state and metro area orders and what they mean for real estate.

Thanks to Kelly Lennox, Jane Leuchter, Adrienne McKelvey and the entire Redfin COVID-19 Service Response team for putting this data together.

This map and list will be updated as the situation changes.