CoreLogic figures on Tuesday showed prices nationally rose 0.7% in July from June, slowing from a jump of 1.1% in the earlier month.
Since finding a floor in February, national prices have risen 4.1%, following a 9.1% decline from their peak in April last year.
Home price gains in Sydney slowed to 0.9% for the month compared with June, down from growth of 1.7%, the data showed.
CoreLogic research director Tim Lawless said sellers were becoming more active at a time that is normally seasonally subdued, with new listings added in Australia's main cities in July lifting by 3.9% over the previous month.
Listings in Sydney jumped 9.9% from a year ago and were 18% higher than the average for the previous five years.
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Tim Lawless, Lawless, PropTrack, Stella Qiu, Tom Hogue
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SYDNEY, Reserve Bank of Australia, Reuters, Thomson
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