Dane Queenan is the Director and Principal Real Estate Agent at PRD Port Stephens / Nelson Bay.
Approaching 20 years experience in the Real Estate industry, Dane is a highly respected agent with over 2000 sales transactions to his name. For many years now he has held the rank of the No.1 or No.2 top selling agent nationally.
Dane joins Mark in this episode of Property Insights to chat about his career in the industry and consider the changing nature of real estate in the Port Stephens region.
Key Takeaways:
- Want to achieve as an agent? While affiliation with a larger brand allows access to larger databases and buyer pools, Dane emphasises that hard work and having a focused mindset is more crucial to success.
- Mark and Dane discuss how to market a property for success. Dane goes over key strategies to create competition, maximise price and get buyers through the door.
- Affordability and the increase in holiday home buyers post COVID has seen a rapid increase in the Port Stephens property market, with only a slight downturn in the face of changing interest rates.
- Property prices could decrease over the next 6 months. Dane highlights the importance for agents to balance the rising expectations of property owners by educating them about current market conditions.
- There is an under supply of rental properties in the region. Dane explores the impacts of this on the market as yields begin to increase.
- Location, access and renovation are important to the largely retiree profile buyer in the Port Stephens area. Dane discusses the key attributes of the average buyer and what they are looking for in a property.
