In our current COVID climate, it’s easy to see a heightened sense of anxiety all around us. Anxiety is a terrible condition to live with and through necessity I’ve found it really helps if you can understand it and develop some tools that can assist in its management.
Anxiety and fear are mostly caused by our perception of what may or may … Read the full post »
As we draw towards the end of the financial year, we can look back at what has been an incredible period for most real estate markets in Australia, in particular regional property markets. For many years we have provided a breakdown of the performance of the Great Ocean Road towns at the conclusion of each financial year. We can already see there will … Read the full post »
In our 
last Great Ocean Report (published in the Surfcoast Times on March 4) we explored what we thought would bring this incredibly buoyant real estate cycle to an end.
Asset markets run in cycles, whether it be shares or property. When you are in the middle of the buoyant phase of the cycles, it feels like the new normal but history … Read the full post »
This report is being written during Dan Andrew’s “circuit breaker” lockdown and it has given us time to reflect on what has been the most incredibly busy summer on the Surfcoast.
In our last Great Ocean Report, we spoke about both the psychological factors (response to being locked down, people escalating their plans forward, etc) that were driving the property market and the … Read the full post »
In the last six months we have seen some surprising and in many ways incredible prices paid on the Surfcoast as people look to change their lives post COVID.
As agents we are continually getting asked what a property is now worth and it has been very challenging to place accurate figures on properties. Our response has been it’s now about process … Read the full post »
Despite predictions from self-proclaimed property experts about the negative impact of COVID on the Australian property markets, the opposite has eventuated and we have never been busier. So, what is going on? Let’s take a look.
There are two … Read the full post »
The last two weeks since Melbourne was released from the “ring of steel” has been the busiest two weeks I can remember from a real estate perspective.
It is a combination of elements that are driving this, some are psychological and some are a product … Read the full post »
This week we saw a classic example of why it is important to take extreme economic predictions with a grain of salt.
In May, Commonwealth Bank CEO Matt Comyn came out with the statement that there was a possibility of the housing market falling by up to 32%. This week he reports that the bank now sees it falling just 6% from … Read the full post »
One of the most challenging things to cope with in times of disruption is the potential for negative story lines to dominate our headspace. It often starts by a series of challenging events, sometimes only small in nature, linking together and we tell ourselves that this is our new normal – and it’s all bad. When left unchallenged this negative storyline can involuntarily … Read the full post »
As restrictions start to ease from the pandemic in Australia, with metropolitan Melbourne being the last major battlefield, many are wondering what the property market will look like post COVID and whether it’s a good time or not to make a real estate move. Let’s try and find some clues to understand what’s likely to happen.
The effect on economies around the … Read the full post »
