{"id":1203,"date":"2011-08-29T01:05:56","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T01:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ohpropertygroup.com\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2014-06-20T01:06:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T01:06:49","slug":"north-shore-agents-cautiously-optimistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ohpropertygroup.com\/news\/blog\/north-shore-agents-cautiously-optimistic\/","title":{"rendered":"North Shore Agents \u2018cautiously optimistic\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
Saturday marked the opening of the spring property season \u2013 even though technically we are still a few days away from spring. With school holidays generally starting on the 24th<\/sup>\u00a0of September, properties earmarked for Auction with a standard 4 week Auction marketing campaigns either launched this past weekend or will launch next Saturday.<\/p>\n This past Saturday alone, I personally inspected sixteen houses on the North Shore. Many property buyers in the North Shore are upsizing from near the City or Inner West, where larger blocks of land and space in general are traditionally scarce. The numerous excellent public and private schools is also a strong drawcard to the North Shore.<\/p>\n The North Shore offers an interesting backdrop to study the property market and what might be in store this spring for a few reasons:<\/p>\n Based on my inspections of properties on Saturday and the weeks preceding, the following are my observations:<\/p>\n All in all it was a good day out there. The lacklustre supply of good property over the last 6 months is fading and buyers are starting to consider buying again. Many risk-averse Sydney property buyers have been waiting on the sidelines since the beginning of the year, fearful of a severe downturn that has not eventuated. Many are now starting to realise that Australia in general and the property market specifically are still quite resilient; and that any downturns are in fact windows of opportunity to either enter the market, upgrade, or invest.<\/p>\n The reality is that fear is often paralysing. Once the fear subsides, buyer confidence will return. It won\u2019t happen overnight. But it will happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Saturday marked the opening of the spring property season \u2013 even though technically we are still a few days away from spring. With school holidays generally starting on the 24th\u00a0of September, properties earmarked for Auction with a standard 4 week Auction marketing campaigns either launched this past weekend or will launch next Saturday. This past […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]"},"categories":[3,4,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohpropertygroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohpropertygroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohpropertygroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohpropertygroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohpropertygroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ohpropertygroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1204,"href":"https:\/\/ohpropertygroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions\/1204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohpropertygroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohpropertygroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohpropertygroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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