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I am seeing similar in Melbourne bayside area which is a better area. Houses that were 1.3 1.4 are starting to touch 1.0 now and units / apartments are at 500-600 which they were for 700-800 a year ago.Well, I inquired about this place just before christmas as it was listed without a price: https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-qld-woodwark-140882696
And I was told that I had to beat an offer of 2.6 mostly cash and do so within ~48 hours as they were about to pull the trigger on acceptance and they've since sent me an unsolicited special email with a "price update", brochure etc, put the price on the ad, and dropped the price by 200k (assuming it was 2.6 previously and they weren't bullshitting me).
This one here by comparison has been up for sale at "offers over 1.9" for aaaaages: https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-qld-woodwark-139739875
And is still listed the same but has "under offer" attached so I suspect someone's lowballed them by a good 100k+ as well.
Meanwhile there's a virgin block literally two blocks over from the first one for 620k: https://www.realestate.com.au/property-residential+land-qld-woodwark-203487820 and a waterfront one just in front of it for 800: https://www.realestate.com.au/property-residential+land-qld-woodwark-203464703
Even this villa further along that they do expensive asian new money weddings at is up for sale: https://www.realestate.com.au/property-acreage+semi-rural-qld-woodwark-141167480 and with an asian real estate agent that couldn't possibly have any potential overseas buyers in hong kong or whatever, nope.
So yeah, depends where you're looking. Inflation squeezes cost of living so when money gets tight then superior goods go on the chopping block first and this is no less true of holiday houses vs living in houses. Econ 101.
Perhaps this area has been oversold a bit, or the smart money is being deployed in Tas/Sa/Qld