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Agent Insight – Twenty Five Years in Real Estate, One Very Specific View of the Lower North Shore. Meet Jess Larsen
Spring is when the Lower North Shore tends to show itself best: gardens filling out, the ferry commute turning pleasant again, open homes drawing the kind of considered buyer who’s been waiting for exactly this season to move. It’s also, this year, when Buyers Market’s newest buyer’s agent starts working the pocket full time. Jess Larsen joins the team specialising in the Lower North Shore, and she arrives with a longer view of the industry than most.
Two decades, several vantage points
Jess has spent more than twenty years across a range of roles in real estate, enough time to see how the industry actually operates from more than one side of the table. That breadth shows up in how she works now: less interested in what a listing says about itself, more interested in what the surrounding evidence actually supports. Buyers Market clients benefit from that depth of experience directly; it’s the kind of pattern recognition that only comes from having sat inside the industry long enough to watch a few cycles play out.
A calm approach to a process that rarely feels calm
Buying property is, for most people, one of the more overwhelming decisions they’ll make, a mix of genuine excitement and genuine pressure, often at the same time. Jess’s approach is deliberately the opposite of frantic. She takes the time to understand what a client is actually trying to achieve, whether that’s a family home, an upsize, a downsize, or an addition to an investment portfolio, and builds the strategy around that goal specifically rather than applying a general playbook. The result is guidance that’s clear and considered rather than reactive.
The Lower North Shore isn’t one market, and she treats it that way
This is where Jess’s specialisation matters most. The Lower North Shore covers a genuinely wide range of neighbourhoods, and she doesn’t read it as a single market with one going rate and one lifestyle pitch. Each pocket has its own character: its own community, its own version of what “lifestyle” actually means locally, and its own kind of property that suits it best. Knowing the difference, street by street rather than suburb by suburb, is exactly the local knowledge that turns a good brief into a well-executed purchase.
For buyers who’ve been watching the Lower North Shore from a distance, waiting for the right person to help them make sense of it, Jess is now taking on clients across the pocket.
P: 0413 166 580 E: jess@buyersmarketba.com.au
