A number of Village Professionals have reached out to us to ask ‘how is the market going’ for retirement village sales.
The above graph for the 13 months from September last year to September 2020.
It shows that last year in September just under 3,800 people searched for a retirement village each day on villages.com.au.
This September, the same number of people are searching.
Numbers are actually up
But here is the thing. Victoria accounts for 35% of the Australian population and they have been in severe lockdown since July. They have not been able to even think of looking at villages let alone sell their homes. It was basically illegal.
So when you add this into the mix, you have to say the average number of people looking seriously at a village option has gone up in 2020.
The only changes have been multiple crises. Fires, drought and now COVID.
The family home is no longer as safe as it was last year.
Have you been receiving a higher level of enquiry? If not, perhaps you are not listing your village on villages.com.au. With 1.2M visits a year it is the No.1 village search destination.
You can find out more here.
