Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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It's your real estate podcast for breakfast. Well, earlier this week, I spoke to auctioneer Damien Cooley and learned something that I didn't know about auctions when it came to active bidders. So in order to have a strong competition at auction time, you need 3.5 active bidders, which is considered positive.
But anything less than that, less than 3.5 active bidders, and that heads towards the negative range. And I asked Damien about more homes being listed for sale, giving buyers a much greater choice. I think the supply and demand absolutely plays a role in any market and property is no different.
If there's more properties on the market in any given suburb and there's only a certain amount of buyers that are looking at purchasing, prices will be affected.
if you look at any suburb and you type in to one of the portals you type in how many properties come up in in all price ranges in any given suburb and you look if you look say three months ago and you look now there's more properties in most suburbs if not all there's more properties on the market in those suburbs now than there was that signifies change because the buyer pool i don't believe is getting stronger at the moment it's it's probably getting weaker
This period pre-Easter is always a very busy period. People go away on holidays. They're enjoying their families. I think it's a little bit unique this year also because we've come off the back of a big boom. And I think also we've come out of a time that has never been seen before, lockdown periods and not being able to go away on holidays.
And I think that that has had a huge impact on the way people feel. And the way people feel has an impact on whether they buy or sell real estate and what they're buying. I think we also need to look at what buyer pools there are out there. And what I mean by that is how are first home buyers going? How are the downsizes going? How are the upsizes going?
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Chapter 2: What insights did the auctioneer share about active bidders?
So to try and get it closer to either closer to where we need to be to sell or even at the price we need to be to sell. So we're seeing more of that. What we are also seeing though, Craig, is that once we do get a bid, it feels a lot easier to get more bids after that. There's a lot of people questioning, is the market going to tank?
And when they question is the market going to tank, they're nervous about starting the bidding. So we're seeing a lot less aggressive bidding tactics. And we're seeing more conservative bidding tactics at auction. But that's the auctioneer's role to establish a floor price and to get buyers bidding.
And the best thing for any owner to see, which is what we always say to buyers, the best thing you can do is actually bid. Because all the owners, they understand the market isn't as good as it was. They know that.
What the owner needs to see is they need to see competition so they can, in their own mind, justify saying yes to a price that may not necessarily be the price they first thought they'd get. We connect you to the best real estate information across Australia, The Real Estate Podcast.