South Coast sales swell leads to unprecedented prices

New South Wales’ South Coast is emerging as Australia’s latest lifestyle-driven property hotspot, with real estate agents saying unprecedented buyer demand is creating a once-in-a-lifetime swell in selling prices.

For much of the latter half of 2020 and early 2021, demand for a coastal lifestyle created market surges in locations such as Byron Bay and the Sunshine Coast.

But as stock numbers dwindle and selling prices in those sought-after area…