Buyers last night warmly welcomed the return of Ray White Ponsonby in-room auctions with socially-distanced open arms as two out of two properties sold under the hammer to the tune of NZ$2,985,000 for a 100 per cent clearance rate. “You could tell that....
Auctions continued to drive buyer confidence last night as a massive 31 registered bidders battled it out for a single property as 34 Trafalgar Street in Onehunga sold for NZ$1,600,000. “This excellent result shows just how deep the buyer pool is for....
A vendor who successfully sold his property through Ray White at auction on Auckland’s North Shore Beach Haven for NZ$965,000 last week has stated the “time to sell is now.” Mr Alf Danielson of Dunedin, who along with his two brothers....
Ray White offices in New Zealand hammered home more strong auction results yesterday as a rising clearance rate indicated buyer confidence was well and truly back. Ray White Beach Haven, Verrans Corner and Glenfield, part of the Carpenter Group on....
Auctions continued to be a key driver of property sale momentum in Alert Level 2 yesterday as Ray White offices successfully sold NZ$8,305,000 worth of property under the hammer. Ray White New Zealand Chief Auctioneer John Bowring (above), who called two auctions successfully....
Ray White offices across New Zealand made it the best of both worlds last night as members utilized both in-room and online auctions with multiple bidders battling it out across the eight properties that sold for a combined NZ$7,965,000 under....
The lockdown phrase ‘we’re all in this together’ has been taken to heart by numerous Ray White offices in New Zealand as members from across the nation gave back what they could to their communities during times of difficulty and....
There’s some exciting news to come out of the lockdown. Leigh Crockford and his son Dane Crockford have rebranded their long established family-owned independent real estate agencies in Tauranga to Ray White to take them to the next level of....
Ray White Ponsonby has enjoyed a double delight night of online auction success as two properties sold under the virtual hammer for a combined value of NZ$2,455,000. The sales were perfect timing on the eve of the nation moving into Alert....
Ray White Royal Oak last night celebrated a hat-trick of online auction successes as three out of four properties available sold under the virtual hammer. The three fruitful online auctions attracted 14 registered bidders and produced a combined sale value of NZ$2,645,000....
Labour Market Fundamentally Strong The data highlight for us economists this week was not the number ten – representing days in the job for Mr Scaramucci. Instead it was yesterday’s collection of numbers showing the state of our labour market in the Household Labour Force Survey and Labour Cost Index. … Read more
Retail Spending Strong Sort Of Fresh economic data have been fairly thin on the ground this week. We learnt that core retail spending using debit and credit cards rose 1.4% in April to deliver an annualised pace of growth in the most recent three months of 5.4%. This is … Read more
Higher Inflation This morning we learnt that New Zealand’s inflation rate has lifted from 1.3% to 2.2%. Core inflation measured as non-tradeables inflation has risen to 2.5% and trimming away the top and bottom 10% of items rising and falling gives inflation at 2.2%. Excluding food and energy … Read more
Last Friday we learnt from the ANZ’s monthly business survey that like consumers businesses have become a tad less confident about the economy recently. Only a net 11% of businesses early in March felt that the economy would improve over the coming year. This is the lowest reading since … Read more
30th March 2017 Weekly Overview Bits and Pieces At the start of one of the talks I gave last week attendees were asked what they would like to hear discussed. Here are some of the things they listed. Income inequality This reflects a debate coming from two sources. … Read more
Handout For A Recent Talk I gave a presentation this week to some potential home buyers at a function in Takapuna this week and promised them that I would reprint in the Weekly Overview the 15 points I raised regarding the Auckland housing market. So here they go, in … Read more
Keep Calm and Carry On I wonder how many people are still sitting out there, holding off from buying a house, hiring staff, or undertaking capital expenditure because they expect the economy to fall into a hole in the ground because of the collapse in the dairy payout, … Read more
Strong Business Sentiment Having written quite a bit last week summarising my thoughts not too much fresh is jumping out of the grey cells this week. Suffice to say that we continue to get firm economic data being released including in the shape of our own quarterly BNZ Confidence Survey. Businesses are definitely feeling happy … Read more
A Few Reasonable Thoughts NZ dairy prices appear to be edging up. Our economy is well underpinned by a range of sectors including tourism, construction, export education, most primary exports. Investors globally are searching for yield and looking further and further afield. Given these factors is it reasonable to expect … Read more
Trying To Boost Inflation The Reserve Bank are cutting interest rates in the hope that this will stimulate people to borrow more money and spend it or to save less and spend it, and that this will cause inflationary pressures which will get the annual inflation rate back above 1%. They are failing (along … Read more