Melbourne's hot weekend home auction market reported another year-high result on Saturday, and now it's no longer just the eastern suburbs feeling the heat.

The 83.3 per cent clearance rate eclipsed the previous non-holiday peak of 82.1 per cent, recorded just three weekends ago. Clearance rates of more than 80 per cent on have been recorded on five of the last six weekends, and only just failed to reach that benchmark on May 9, when a rate of 79.7 per cent was recorded. Th...

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Buyers are being spurred into action by record low interest rates. This house at 18 Court Road, Double Bay, sold at auction on Saturday for $2.7 million. Photo: Supplied

Days after the Reserve Bank slashed interest rates to record lows the Sydney auction market recorded its highest clearance rate ever.

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