Tarneit, Craigieburn top the list of Australias highest numbers of home settlements, thanks to first-home buyer demand: PEXA [Video]

Melbourne first-home buyers have driven Tarneit and Craigieburn to the top of the nation’s home sales ladder.

New figures from digital settlements platform PEXA have revealed the two postcodes were the only ones in the nation where more than 1000 residential property sales were finalised in the past three months.

They are among the 44,482 recorded across Victoria from the start of July to the end of September.

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But despite hosting the nation’s two busiest postcodes for sales, Victoria was the nation’s third busiest state overall behind Queensland and NSW.

The firm’s Property Insights data also show Victoria’s 76.1 per cent of …