Julie Gauci

Good morning, Craig.

Thanks for having me.

Yeah, I've been really well, thank you.

Yeah, well, it's certainly calmed down.

COVID just made everything crazy, really, didn't it?

From buying toilet paper to buying a beach house or something outside of Sydney or even renting a property outside of Sydney.

If you're in lockdown, you weren't sort of stuck.

You know, this is where everyone wanted to be if they were going to be in lockdown.

So things have certainly changed.

We're definitely feeling that.

Like this is typically a quiet time of year for us.

So now that you take, and I'm talking about the town in general, now that you take COVID out of the equation, it's like we're back to our normal rhythms of high season, low season.

So if you're out on the streets at the moment, there's no one around.

It's quite peaceful and it's very quiet, which is sort of what we're used to.

So it was sort of towards the back end of last year that our open home numbers, you know, almost halved or more the number of registered bidders on property and the level of buyer inquiry on each property.

We really saw that shift back end of last year when we sort of got back to work after the January holiday period.

You know, that's when we really started to say, okay, well, this market's actually looking like it's coming off now.

Well, it's still a supply-demand scenario, as it always was there.

You know, when it comes to your beachfront property, which would be your premium properties for our area, you know, we sold one in April for a record price of $4.55.

So that was a record for the marina in Coldborough Beach, which is the beachfront strip there.