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South Coast Property Specialists (Carlene Franzen) Tips #1086: Changing Your Occupation into the Building Trade

Are you a bit bored in your job and looking for something with real long-term opportunities? That sounds like an advertisement catch line doesn’t it. However, if the economists and statisticians are correct, Australia will need to increase its construction of residential accommodation massively over the next few decades to keep up with demand. During last year we mentioned the Intergenerational Report which the Government released to help industries and businesses plan for the next 40 years. In the report, the population is projected to be nearly 39 million by 2061. Currently there are approximately 26 million people in Australia and it has taken over 200 years to get to this number. So, in the next 40 years our population will increase by 50% (13 million people). The intergenerational report also forecasts that the number of people in each household (currently 2.5 people) will shrink slightly. The net impact of this is that we are going to require about a third more residential dwellings that we currently have today. Or put another way, that is one new property for every two properties that currently exists. Currently there are approximately 10 million homes in Australia and if we need to build 5 million homes over the 40 years that’s an average of 125,000 every year. This is going to put a massive strain on the building industry from top to bottom. Town Planners and infrastructure providers will have to design new ways to cope with this increase and the building and building supplies companies will be flat out trying to keep up with demand. Obviously not all of it will be taken up in more urban sprawl. No doubt there will be a heavy reliance on high density living assuming people are able to move on from their reluctance to do so because of Covid. High rise apartments will likely start to appear in more areas other than the CBD and medium density housing such as townhouses will increase in all areas as well. So, what does this mean for the regions like ours? Well, not everyone is going to want to live “cheek to jowl” and so those that are able to work remotely or don’t need to work at all, may well seek solace in regions such as ours where they have more room to move and enjoy a more relaxed lifestyle. Some may even take up a new trade…….maybe in the building industry.

Mar 4th - Chris McGrath at the Batemans Bay Soldiers Club

Mar 5th - Chris McGrath at the Batemans Bay Soldiers Club Mar 5th - Sirenics from 7:30pm at Club Catalina Mar 5th - Intensity – Tuross Club (7.30pm) Mar 5th - Karaoke at the Tomakin Social Club 7:30pm Mar 6th - Chris McGrath at the Batemans Bay Soldiers Club Mar 6th - Joe Quennell – Club Narooma (3pm) Mar 11th - Rob Simpson – Batemans Bay Soldiers Club (7.30pm) Mar 12th - Mogo Community Fun Day – Mogo Oval (2-6pm) Mar 12th - BassFront - The Return of WaterFront Saturdays. Mar 18th - the Cody Munro Moore Homecoming Tour at Narooma Kinema Mar 19th - Great Southern Nights, Tilba Valley Winery and Alehouse, Village Sounds presents: Day In The Valley All Our Exes Live In Texas, Penny Harterlink, Ricky Bloomfield, Baedon, Melanie Horsnell, Ryan Luckhurst

Braidwood Concert Series presents SATURDAY 12 March jazz super-group THIS WORLD featuring Mike Nock (piano), Hamish Stuart (drums, percussion), Julien Wilson (sax) and Jonathan Zwartz (double bass) performing at St Andrews Anglican Church, Elrington St, Braidwood. Time: 4.45 for 5pm. Online x: see link to Humani x and QR code on poster. Or google Humani x and under 'search event' put 'This World 2022'. Don’t miss this amazing line-up and outstanding performers! Enquiries: artwork123@icloud.com Bermagui Seasiders Inc, producers of the Bermagui Seaside Fair are very excited to finally announce our Revive Fes val will take place on March 26th OUTDOORS at the Murrah Hall, Murrah. Reggae favourites The Strides will once again be gracing us with their presence and will be joined with a host of local South Coast ar sts including (alphabe cally) Bodhi Turner, Calum James, Felicity Dowd, Kunda, Lillian McVeity, Nikea & Dre, Prodikal1, The Scaramouche, The Spindri Saga and Warren Foster Snr.

Tickets are just $30 presale or $40 on the gate (if available). Secure your cket here h ps://www.southcoas ckets.com.au/events/ revive/ Gates will open at 3pm with Uncle Warren Foster Snr to deliver the Welcome to Country at 3:30pm.

Day In The Valley March 19th Great Southern Nights in associa on with Tilba Valley Winery and Alehouse and Village Sounds present "Day In The Valley" an open air music fes val in the most picturesque of loca ons! Saturday, 19 March 2022 9:30 am Adult 16+ Tickets $23.50 Mark this one down in the calendar folks and grab yourself a cket to what will be an amazing day of entertainment including local and touring acts Great Southern Nights is a celebra on of live music that takes place right across New South Wales. he dynamic event features hundreds of COVID-safe performances at live music venues across Greater Sydney and regional NSW in March and April 2022 Great Southern Nights is a NSW Government ini a ve, delivered by Des na on NSW in partnership with the Australian Recording Industry Associa on (ARIA, to s mulate the revival or the State's live music, entertainment and hospitality sectors, and in turn the NSW visitor economy in response to challenges presented by the COVID-I9 pandemic. For more informa on, please visit greatsouthernnights.com.au.

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