Vacancy Survey, August 2025

Dear Property Manager,

The Real Estate Institute of Victoria appreciates your co-operation in participating in our monthly Residential Rental Vacancy Rate Data Collection.

This survey should take less than 3 minutes to complete and your personal information will be kept strictly confidential, as the data you provide will only be published in aggregate form. Your regular participation in this monthly survey is vital to the accuracy of our data. The information you provide is unique and cannot be obtained from any other source.

In appreciation of your support, we will send through a snapshot of the latest rental data directly to you before it is published in the Monthly Research Bulletin, and made available on our website.

Supplying data

This survey is used for the production of residential vacancy rates in the month of August 2025. The survey will remain open until 5pm on Monday, 8 September 2025.

The data that we collect is for a ‘point in time’ so answering the survey at any time during the month is acceptable. By collecting results for this survey for the same duration every month, this provides a reasonable comparison of the data over time.

Thank you in advance for your participation.
1.Please provide your name below:
2.To ensure that you receive the latest rental data, please provide your email address below:(Required.)
3.REIV members are also eligible for 1 CPD point every time they contribute. To ensure that you receive the point, please provide your membership number below:
4.Please indicate your main area of rental management operation: If you manage properties in a range of areas, you should select where the majority of your properties are located.

Please refer to this link for a full suburb listing of metropolitan regions and this link for regional areas.(Required.)
5.If you operate in more than one area, please nominate the other areas here. If your property management activities are focused in a single area, please skip to question 6.
NOTE: The following questions should exclude commercial properties and temporary accommodations such as holiday accommodation, short stay apartments, B&B's, emergency shelters, caravans & mobile homes, etc.
6.What is the total number of properties on your rent roll when completing this survey? (Properties currently managed by company)(Required.)
7.How many properties are vacant? (Properties that have become vacant or listed for rent, this answer should not include any new listings)(Required.)
8.How many NEW properties are vacant? (Include all new "exclusive" listings received by the company that are vacant, does NOT include vacant properties you just included in question 6)(Required.)
9.The REIV is continuously reviewing its collection methodology for the rental vacancy rate survey. If you have any suggestions on how the survey could be improved, please enter them below.