Dear Fellow Property Investor,
In the four years since the pandemic began, home prices around the country have staged a remarkable feat.
From fears of sharp falls through the pandemic, to predictions of steep declines when interest rates began to quickly climb, home prices have defied the expectations of many, surging 39.9% nationally.
Throughout this four-year period, multiple factors have influenced and shifted housing trends, with the housing market cycling through different phases as a result of the pandemic’s wide-ranging economic and social impacts.
The supply of properties for sale, population growth, building activity, rental market conditions, interest rates, and interstate and regional migration have all affected home price growth, as well as how it has been distributed Australia-wide since March 2020.
And at the same time these factors have faced a complex interplay of economic policies, consumer behaviour, and broader societal changes in response to the pandemic.
In the past year capital city markets have outperformed regional areas (7.64% versus 4.67%), but comparing growth since the pandemic onset, regional home prices have significantly outperformed their capital city counterparts in every state except WA and NT.
This outperformance was largely accumulated throughout the pandemic property price boom.
At the very onset of the pandemic, there was a pause in the housing market as lockdown restrictions, closed borders and uncertainty weighed, with many thinking home prices would fall.
In fact, the opposite occurred. Housing demand surged, and along with record low interest rates and limited stock for sale, combined to drive a price boom that saw national prices growing at the third-fastest rate in Australia’s history.
Let me ask you something…
Do you have a game plan for 2024?
Or will you watch savvy, educated, market-ready investors snap up all the bargains at the bottom of the Melbourne property cycle (which, in my opinion, already bottomed out in November 2022), again?
Or, will you join them?
So, what are you waiting for?
Reserve your place and join me and 55 like-minded property investors for the first Real Estate Investing Fast Track Weekend for 2024!
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