There was only one house that sold for less than $500,000 at Harcourts' Auckland auctions last week (ended April 10), and that was a three bedroom house in Otara (pictured) that went for $480,000.
However you could also have picked up a one bedroom home unit in Mt Wellington that went for $240,000.
At the other end of the price scale a house in Epsom fetched $3 million and five others sold for more than $2 million.
By contrast all of the Hamilton homes that Harcourts sold at auction last week went for less than $500,000.
We also have the latest auction results from Harcourts' auction rooms in Wellington, Palmerston North, Kapiti, Christchurch and Blenheim.
See below for the full results:
Auction results for Harcourts Marlborough:
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Seriously or taking the mickey? LOL Who can tell these days?
I see the Otara house went for 37% above CV. This seems to be the low end at the moment for your classic Kiwi bungalow in what was once a less desirable area of Auckland.
You know what is really interesting about the Otara property? Go to earth view and you will see huge pylons. Is this the new investment opportunity? Have people lost their fear of pylons?
Savvy investors could have seen this coming. From an article about Alberta, Canada:
...buyers flocked to detached houses in less expensive neighbourhoods, pushing up prices in the Northern and Eastern parts of the city.
Probably a bit late now. I think one bedroom places will be good buys, especially if you can find a nice brick and tile one.
In America there has been quite a bit of discussion about this. They claim gentrification is a form of Fascism, displacing ethnic minorities in the super-cities with hip housing, boutique pubs, organic shops and Apple stores using as their shock troops an army of hipsters. There have actually been protests against organic shops attempting to get started.
I have often wondered why people don't get together and gentrify a block or even just a street. Just ensuring there is no litter and all houses and their frontages and gardens look immaculate would do wonders for house values. Possibly setup really good community surveillance to make it crime free too. Hard to determine the effect on value in these crazy house price times but maybe later.
Oos yes and idea and while your it remove the homeless too such an eyesore. Prices need to go up forever http://abc7news.com/news/homeless-man-dies-after-police-shooting-in-sf/…
It is a bit out of my league that place. Nice view from the pool - I often walk around the Orakei basin for exercise, trekking over from the One Tree Hill side of the motorway. There are a lot of walks around Central Auckland with the volcanic cones and coastal areas. If you walk around Central Auckland you soon realise how beautiful it is and that there are many nice places to live and not many for sale
That is quite a lot over CV for such an expensive house. Interesting that there was so much interest.
I'm going to try and make it to an auction tomorrow so will report on that.
I remember those days and actually having some sleepless nights as a 25% drop in house prices would have wiped out all my capital. Luckily I didn't panic too much although I did sell one property prematurely. People shouldn't advise others to not invest in property as they are more often wrong than right - better to say nothing.
Bloody nuts ! we are talking a blue collar working area ........how can any blue-collar worker and his wife and even an extended family ever pay this kind of loot for a home .
Furthermore , the buyer , if he is an investor , needs to get some yield , at this price he gets almost zero yield in a low socio-economic area such as this
What would this rent for though? $450 per week* - so $23400 per year (4.9% yield)? Interest on a $432k mortgage @ 5% = $21.6k. Doesn't seem that bad an investment or owner-occupier purchase provided interest rates stay low and houses keep appreciating. Could be terrible if either changes though!
Also wouldn't 4.9% represent a reasonably good yield in Auckland at the moment? My landlord is getting around a 2 - 2.5% yield on his property.
*Very uneducated guess - happy to be corrected.
Clearly then at those numbers the business approach is looking for Capital gain Aspiring. It's being bought to sell so tax on the capital gain applies.
If you have ever claimed a tax deduction and had negative tax flow, you will be paying tax on your capital gain. Every single one, no dispute.
A FHB may have put down 100K deposit on the Otara home and is now paying around $300 a week in interest on the mortgage. This doesn't seem so bad especially when you consider that renting the place may cost $450 a week. That would mean the 100K deposit was saving them $150 a week which is almost 8% tax free return!
Buying is still better than renting.
An investor with 100K may be better off to buy this place and rent it out rather than keeping the money in the bank.
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