Can This Market Last | Any Losers?
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What impact did COVID have on property prices?
It's The Real Estate Podcast, brought to you by Ray White, the largest real estate and property group in Australasia. And welcome to another episode of The Real Estate Podcast. We're talking to Steve Waters from Wright Property Group. Welcome to The Real Estate Podcast, Steve. Yeah, thanks for having me. It's great to be here. Well, it's good to sort of be in a brand new year too, 2022. Did you have a good break over the Christmas New Year?
It was. It was something that I've been looking forward to for 12 months, believe it or not, because the last couple of years just seemed like one long day. Yeah, for sure.
And we know that COVID has had a huge and in many cases a devastating effect on our lives, which is why we just needed that Christmas New Year break so much. And everything that we thought we knew was turned on its head and upside down when the pandemic struck Australia and the rest of the world. And we know that some of the larger problems associated with the changes we've had to endure, but What are some of the more subtle changes do you think that COVID has produced, which potentially might be with us for a little while to come?
Yeah, that's a great question. Other than the economic pain, health, those obvious things, and then the ramifications of credit policy, first-time owners grants and all the government stimulus, some of those not so obvious changes are around the trends that are either going to be sustainable or not. And that might be the the movement of populace away from areas to different areas as they wrestle with the employment slash affordability and lifestyle components that COVID has made fully aware to them that probably wasn't beforehand. So I think those trends that we're starting to see now, which is moving populations away from certain centres, are really going to hold their own over the next, let's call it two to five years.
But conversely, I also think there's been some short-term trends because of COVID that have had their time in the sun. And I would suggest that over the next few years may revert back to an element of normality. So it's certainly going to be interesting over the next couple of years.
You know, the moving population, I don't think anybody would have realised or dreamed of just how much movement across borders was going to happen in Australia. Do you think that's fair comment with regard to COVID?
Yeah, I think it's been amazing. But there's somewhat of an element, when you look back in hindsight, it was quite an obvious change that could have happened given the right circumstances, which ended up being COVID. You look at an area like Queensland or Brisbane in particular, which has always got the highest intrastate migration numbers. But then you throw a COVID scenario in there and you've got populations, say, from Melbourne and its surrounds, which have declined because everybody's gone to Queensland. Same with New South Wales or Sydney to the regional areas, even to Tasmania. None of that was made possible before. in terms of longevity, unless employers and big business got their head around the fact that people can be just as productive working from home or in a blended scenario, whatever it looks like to them.
And I can personally say that prior to COVID, I don't know if I'd have been too happy about everybody working from home. But now fast forward and I don't think we'll be going back to the office in any way, shape or form in a full-time capacity. So I'm one, but I'm embracing it. So is the team.
Yeah. So COVID has really sort of turned the light switch on for lifestyle. I mean, that's the key, isn't it? So you work from home, you create your own lifestyle from where you're living. And as you say, moving population is, A lot of people going to the Gold Coast, for example, the Sunshine Coast, for that very reason.
Yeah, absolutely. They're about as good as examples as you can get. And to be fair, why wouldn't you? Sunshine, perfect one day, better the next, as the slogan goes. But you've got other characteristics
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