Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Well, we are checking in on Tasmania this morning and looking at some positivity in Hobart, where their listing numbers are climbing towards pre-pandemic levels. Yes, the latest PropTrack listings report tells us that there was a 70% increase year-on-year in the total number of Hobart homes listed for sale.
Angus from PropTrack says it's the largest annual increase in total supply on record out of any city. So let's bring in Nat Downton from Downton Property there in Hobart to help us break all of this down this morning. And a very good morning to you, Nat. Welcome to the Real Estate Breakfast podcast. Thanks for having me.
So this has got to be good news for you to sort of keep up with some of these properties that are coming onto the market there in Hobart. Yeah, we have seen particularly over the last couple of months a huge growth in the number of listings or properties that become available on the market down here.
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Chapter 2: What recent metrics reveal about the Hobart property market?
But they've jumped the gun a little bit earlier this year and it's all happening now. It's all happening. You're sounding like a commentator now. It's like that. Yeah. So the PropTrack report also puts a spotlight on the suburbs with the best growth results led by the prestigious Sandy Bay, where listings increased by 110% year on year.
Yeah, Sandy Bay is the blue chip suburb of Tasmania and Hobart. It's quite a big suburb. So there's a lot of property in the area and it's broken down into sort of lower Sandy Bay and Sandy Bay itself. So it's always popular. That never changes. Sandy Bay is always dominated by listings and stock.
It's always going to be one of those popular markets, you know, with the facilities down there, they're growing. Obviously being close to the beach, it's just a lifestyle down there. So there's always movement, whether people are coming into that suburb or they're leaving, it's always busy there.
And a couple of the other suburbs too, Nat, which seem to be performing in the listings area is Kingston. They recorded a 46% growth. I think Rokeby was in there as well as Glenorchy. Yeah, Kingston and Rokeby have had a lot of new development happening. So Rokeby and the Glebe Hill Estate nearby have had so much development in there.
So there's a new shopping centre that has gone down near Rokeby and lots of new homes being built. And the same as Kingston, there's a couple of subdivisions down there that have just happened called Spring Farm Estate. And the growth in these areas has been really, really big. So obviously more homes available in that space.
First home buyers are getting in, you know, house and land packages are happening a lot in Kingston and Rokeby. So that's why that growth would have been seen a lot, particularly in these couple of suburbs as well. And another one of these statistics was days on market. The majority of the homes for sale were on market for less than 30 days. Sure, there were a bunch of them.
that were in that 30 to 60 days, but it looks like things are going out the door pretty quickly. Yeah, so the 30-day period is very relevant to the market that we were just in. And when I say the market we were just in, it's very evident of that shift that is happening now. So when I said previously that it was a buyer's market, the competition was really hot.
Buyers had to make a decision really quickly. So we would list a property and if it was a really good home, which was going to be well received in the marketplace, you would list that on a Tuesday and that'd be gone by the Monday. And that was pretty much just the way the market was going. And that was for the majority of properties that we listed that were a good product.
Then you've got the next bracket, obviously down here in Tassie, we're a little bit slower than interstate sometimes. And what I mean by that is that not always did buyers have their finance ready to go and, you know, building inspections obviously need to be done and that sort of thing. So the homes that probably fell into the 30 to 60-day mark... would have gone under contract fairly quickly.
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