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  • New Zealand’s next million dollar suburbs

    Atom Go TianSenior Data AnalystRay White Group Which are the next suburbs where house prices will exceed $1 million in 2025? First, let’s consider where these $1 million suburbs are at the moment and how they’ve been growing over the....

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  • Auction success when vendors meet the market

    The winter chill has slowly started to take its hold on auction volumes, with Ray White New Zealand scheduling 125 auctions across the nation last week, down 6.7 per cent year-on-year. The network recorded a clearance rate of 47.9 per....

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  • New Zealand’s cash rate pause

    Vanessa RaderHead of ResearchRay White Group The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) has maintained its Official Cash Rate at 5.50 per cent, signalling a pause in its monetary tightening cycle. This decision reflects the central bank’s careful balancing act....

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  • Surge of stock sees more options for buyers

    Ray White New Zealand scheduled 163 auctions last week, up 4.5 per cent year-on-year, with a clearance rate of 42.3 per cent. The group recorded an average of two registered bidders and 1.8 active bidders per auction. Properties which sold....

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  • Megan Jaffe to revitalise Ray White Ponsonby legacy

    Renowned owner of Ray White Remuera, Megan Jaffe, and her business partner Thomas Farmer, have taken the next step in their real estate journey, opening Ray White Ponsonby. With Ray White Remuera being Ray White’s number one office internationally for....

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  • Where are the most affordable suburbs for renters?

    Atom Go TianSenior Data Analyst Ray White Group Firstly, what is “affordable?” According to Stats NZ, average weekly earnings as of June 2023 was $1,273 per week, a 25.3 per cent increase from five years ago. During the same period, rents....

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  • Long weekend didn’t hold back auction volumes

    Ray White New Zealand scheduled 148 auctions to go under the hammer last week, up 8 per cent year-on-year. The network recorded a clearance rate of 41.7 per cent, with an average of 2.1 registered bidders and 1.8 active bidders....

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  • The Pulse – 13 Feb 2020

    A quick synopsis of the market for 2020 shows some interesting details. Buyers are still very evident with auction selling rates increasing, multiple offers on normal listings commonplace and many buyers prepared to put in back-up offers on properties already under contract. Interestingly enough sale numbers remain virtually unchanged from … Read more

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  • The Pulse – 30 Jan 2020

    Amazing to think that the first month of 2020 is drawing to a close. And what a month it has been, open homes with record attendances, multi offers on many listings and pre-auction offers bringing early auctions and properties selling within 24 or 48 hours of coming to the market. … Read more

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  • The Pulse 14 Jan 20

    A warm welcome to you all for 2020 and what a start we have seen. With the market picking up many of our team were “on deck” over the holiday break and boy did that pay dividends for our vendors. We managed a staggering 23 signed agreements between December … Read more

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  • The Pulse – 24 Oct 2019

    SUMMERTIME IS HAMMER TIME!!! This is Ray White Austar’s big pre-Christmas marketing initiative to take advantage of growing buyer activity as we head towards the end of the year. This is a one-off special event for auctions booked during the month of October offering owners cost-effective packages and the opportunity … Read more

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  • The Pulse – 17 Sept 2019

    Earlier this year Austar embarked on a new pathway. We decided we wanted the actual team to help us set our core values, goals and ultimately our mission statement for the company. We gathered our salespeople, managers, administrators and property managers to work together in two intensive workshops evaluating various … Read more

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  • The Pulse – 10 Sept 2019

    NIWA may be predicting a wet September, but in terms of real estate this month the heat will start to go on. All indications suggest a continued upturn in real estate sales, as buying conditions ease and more property becomes available. This upturn will be welcomed by a real estate … Read more

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  • The Pulse – 3 Sept 2019

    Spring is definitely springing. The change in weather is heralding a change of another climate as listings are starting to become evident again. Like the budding of new spring flowers, this new burst of listing activity will hopefully presage the growth in sales we seasonally expect over the next 3 … Read more

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  • The Pulse – 20 Aug 2019

    Property management is a topic close to the heart of many. With the fears of future capital gains tax for secondary residential properties now put to bed, we are seeing a lot of normal New Zealanders concentrating on rental property as the best form of retirement investment. Some of the … Read more

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  • The Pulse 13 Aug 2019

    Last week we spoke about the lift in the market as Ray White Austar had experienced some of the best Winter selling conditions we had ever experienced. We are now sitting at 25 agreements month to date and seriously challenging our best August in terms of written sales ever. Although … Read more

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  • The Pulse – 8 Aug 2019

    Another great Austar auction weekend with 3 out of 5 selling under the hammer and a fourth under offer meaning happy vendors, happy purchasers and happy agents, the perfect trifecta. We currently have 16 agreements signed already for August and well underway for perhaps our best August ever. Despite the … Read more

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