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An insider’s take on the current land sales boom
LOCAL real estate agent Rocky Gagliardi says OPPORTUNITIES... Principal at Gagliardi Scott Real Estate, Rocky Gagliardi, at Seven Creeks Estate in Kialla. Rocky said he’s never seen the real estate market booming like it is currently. Photo: Struan Jones. he’s never seen the property market in Greater Shepparton so busy. According to Rocky, who started his career back in 1998, the region’s real estate market has been slowly but surely picking up over the last four or five years, but
Even before COVID-19, the region was experiencing a building boom, which that pace has increased over the last 12 months. has continued, if not intensified, despite the pandemic. Rocky and his team are the sales agents for Seven Creeks Estate,
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Rocky, the principal at Gagliardi Scott Real Estate, is one of Providence Field, Windsor Park, Meadow Wood, Woodlands Estate, northern Victoria’s most notable real estate agents. The Vines and Sanctuary Park.
Born and raised in Shepparton, he now leads a team of property “Land sales “There are new, young communities here,” he said. specialists, helping hundreds of new home builders find their are out of “Shepparton is such a multicultural society, and there’s a lot dream location within Shepparton’s finest land estates. control at the of diverse activity that happens here that spins off and creates “Land sales are out of control at the moment,” he said. “Because our office has got such a variety of subdivisions, we’ve got a good feel of what the market is doing. moment...we’re having a boom.” confidence and money in the area, and now house prices are really taking another gear up. “You’ve got house price brackets I never thought ten years ago
“It was ticking along like I’ve never seen it before, and that was Rocky Gagliardi we’d break – I’m talking million-dollar brackets, $900,000 brackets, before COVID-19, and then since the HomeBuilder program was that’s because a lot of building has happened where they’re building announced, it’s been even busier. $800,000 or $900,000 homes.
“We’re having a boom.” “That’s pretty exciting in Shepparton, I think we’re in a really good place.”