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Episode 212: Unpacking the 2022 Buyer Barometer Survey | Cate Bakos, REBAA

Property buyers—investors and owners alike—tend to have a personal opinion on where the property market is heading in the future.

Individually, you’re likely to take these opinions with a grain of salt. But as a whole, these pieces of information present us with a snapshot of how consumer confidence might affect market behavior.

Today, we will learn more from REBAA’s President, Cate Bakos, as we talk about the results from the second Buyer Barometer Survey showing what Australian buyers think about the property market. We’ll get clues on the year ahead, the factors affecting buyer behaviour in the property market, rental drivers, and other insights.

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Episode Highlights:

  1. An overview of the 2021 Buyer Barometer Survey [01:53]

  2. Some of the surprising findings in the survey [03:52]

  3. Key differences in the results compared with last year’s [07:51]

  4. Insights into the most desirable property location in 2022 [09:03]

  5. Factors affecting the buyers’ property investment decisions [10:35]

  6. Investor mentality vs. owner-occupier mentality [12:12]

  7. Measuring how people are reacting to the hot market [14:25]

  8. The eviction moratorium’s impact on investors [16:00]

  9. Findings on the rental movement in the property market [20:42]

  10. What drives rents up or down? [25:02]

  11. Statistics on buyers willing to buy property sight unseen [31:58]

  12. The dangers of using borderless buyer’s agents [34:30]

  13. Why buyers shouldn’t just follow what’s popular [41:25]

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About Cate:

Cate Bakos is a fully-licensed buyer’s agent and Qualified Property Investment Advisor (PIPA). Purchasing her first property at 21, Cate continued to invest in property whilst developing her career in sales and marketing with Orica (formerly ICI). In 2003, Cate won a marketing and bursary award, however her passion for real estate saw her make the decision to move into the property industry as a sales agent in Melbourne’s Bayside. Cate currently holds the position of President for REBAA (Real Estate Buyers Agents’ Association (national body) and is a proud PIPA member with a QPIA (Qualified Property Investment Advisor) status.

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