Happiest Place In Australia
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What makes Hervey Bay the happiest place in Australia?
It's The Real Estate Podcast, brought to you by ANZ Home Loans for financial well-beings. And welcome to another episode of The Real Estate Podcast, available on iHeartRadio every morning and on Spotify and Apple and wherever you get your podcasts from. The week has finished. Well, you could say it's finished, but it's just begun if you're on the hunt for real estate around the country, and it certainly hasn't finished for real estate people really cranking it up today to get out there to sell some properties, maybe to list some properties. It is a Saturday morning, the 1st of October for 2022, and if you like fishing... I have got the perfect spot coming up for you in just a moment with Scott from Mitchells Realty.
Don't forget tomorrow morning we have the Sunday Rewind. We look back over the last seven days with the interviews, some of the trends and some of the predictions. And then next week we're going to be having a look at some of the luxury markets. On Monday, Monica Liu is going to be here. talking about the Sydney market, the luxury market, what is happening, is there plenty of stock, what is happening with the price points. And then on Tuesday we go to Brisbane and we talk to Hamish there about Tenerife, which is the new $3 million suburb in Brisbane. If you're celebrating your birthday today for the 1st of October, have a fantastic Saturday. Just the one celebrity birthday, it is Jimmy Carter. He is celebrating his 98th birthday, 39th President of the United States.
And I actually looked to see if his wife Rosalind is still alive there. They got married in 1946, and she is. She's still going strong, and they have been together for 76 years of marriage. Well done. It's your weekend real estate breakfast, a serial-sized podcast about what's happening in your local backyard every Saturday morning on The Real Estate Podcast.
Why are people moving to Hervey Bay?
It's the main centre forecast with PRD, selling smarter every day. Okay, let's have a look at your weather around Australia on this first day of October and grab the raincoat because you're going to need it in Sydney this morning. Showers increasing and a high of 18 degrees. Also in Melbourne, expecting mostly sunny skies, a high of 19. In Brisbane, one or two pieces of rain with some showers and 24 as your forecast top. And in Perth today, it is the place to be. Warm sunshine and 28 degrees. It's your real estate podcast for breakfast. We talk with leading property commentators with analysis, predictions, forecasts and what's trending every morning from 6.30. Well, if you're looking for a place to get a suntan this coming summer, I've probably got the perfect location and it's in Queensland.
They get plenty of sunshine. Isn't that right, Scott, from Mitchell's Realty there in Harvey Bay? Certainly is. Mojave Bay does statistically have one of the most temperate subtropical climates in Australia. So it is pretty good. I remember several years ago that 60 Minutes were doing an episode on... I think it was something along the lines of where are Australia's most happiest people and where people are enjoying quality of life. And I've got a sneaking suspicion that it was Harvey Bay, the happiest people. It did. 100%.
What is the current median house price in Hervey Bay?
Actually, there's been two separate surveys done, and we are. We've been voted the happiest place in Australia. People do come to Harvey Bay for a change of life. That's a common theme for why people move here, other than we've got one of the best climates in the country. But they come here for a change of life, and the lifestyle that comes with living in such an idyllic, beautiful location. Yeah, and I'm just thinking now, somebody in Melbourne this morning has woken up and thinking, gee, we've had a really miserable sort of a winter. Maybe we need to look for that sea change. You'd be dealing with people, these interstaters that have moved into Harvey Bay from the likes of Melbourne? Yeah, certainly.
And that was really one of the driving forces for myself and my wife, Katrina, moving here 17 years ago. We were running a specialist fishing tackle business in Cooma, Cooma in the Snowy Mountains.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What makes Hervey Bay the happiest place in Australia?
0:02–2:20
2
Why are people moving to Hervey Bay?
2:20–3:59
3
What is the current median house price in Hervey Bay?
3:59–5:28
4
How has the property market changed in Hervey Bay recently?
5:28–8:08
5
What lifestyle benefits does Hervey Bay offer to new residents?
8:08–10:18
6
What opportunities exist for tradespeople in Hervey Bay?
10:18–11:06
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