To distract from his larger plan to gut the federal government, the President has taken a relatively powerless program and turned it into an excuse for everything that goes wrong in the country.

A total of 344 properties were sold via auction last week. Realestate.com.au data division Proptrack has reported 1174 local auction and private sale results in the past seven days.

Some of the transactions do not include a transfer price because no money was exchanged for the property. All deeds are ...