{"id":8326,"date":"2024-08-20T11:33:39","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T11:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/have-australians-fallen-out-of-love-with-sydney-and-melbourne\/"},"modified":"2024-08-20T11:33:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T11:33:39","slug":"have-australians-fallen-out-of-love-with-sydney-and-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/have-australians-fallen-out-of-love-with-sydney-and-melbourne\/","title":{"rendered":"Have Australians fallen out of love with Sydney and Melbourne?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Data shows that Australians are already on the move. Sales volumes in regional Australia surged 20% in 2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realestate.com.au\/news\/sales-surge-in-regional-areas-as-covid-pandemic-drives-lifestyle-shift\/?rsf=edm:brz:nl:weeklya1\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">a new report by property-selling website www.realestate.com.au has shown<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a>. This was double the growth seen in the state capitals, and the study said that Covid-19 was &#8220;driving a lifestyle shift&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A separate report said that in the 12 months to the end of January house prices across regional Australia surged by 40%, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/financial-services\/regional-house-prices-soar-40pc-as-covid-19-accelerates-boom-20210113-p56trb\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">&#8220;more than three times the pace of capital cities&#8221;<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The areas with the largest increases in sales over the past year were dominated by regional markets and outer capital city areas,&#8221; says Cameron Kusher, director of economic research at REA Group, which owns realestate.com.au.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This highlights a shift in population &#8211; perhaps driven by the prevalence of working from home and lifestyle changes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nathan Stribley, a city planner at business consultancy Urbis, says that coronavirus has &#8220;turbocharged&#8221; exciting trends in Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Working from home was something that was happening pre-Covid, but there&#8217;s no doubt that the impact of Covid, and the restrictions on accessing CBDs [central business districts] and getting to work, has been a revolution in terms of the number of businesses that have moved to the technological enablement of offsite work,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That greater flexibility has freed people up to make decisions about where they want to locate, how often they need to be in the office, and how far they&#8217;re willing to commute.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This line of thinking applied to Brooke Moyle, a creative producer and stylist, who recently uprooted her life in inner Sydney, and moved with her husband and young daughter to Newcastle &#8211; a smaller coastal city two hours&#8217; drive away.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-56167965?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data shows that Australians are already on the move. Sales volumes in regional Australia surged 20% in 2020, a new report by property-selling website www.realestate.com.au has shown, external. This was double the growth seen in the state capitals, and the study said that Covid-19 was &#8220;driving a lifestyle shift&#8221;. 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