It was a slow week in the main Auckland apartment auction rooms with just five units on offer and they were split between two of the main agencies that hold regularly scheduled apartment auctions.
Barfoot & Thompson had just two units on offer at their apartment auction and only five groups of buyers turned up, but at least those that did show up weren't there to muck around.
There was just one bidder for one of the units and two bidders on the other, but they were serious bidders and it seems the vendors were prepared to be realistic in their pricing. Both apartments sold under the hammer, giving a 100% clearance rate.
Up at Ray White City Apartments' auction room three units were on offer and all attracted bids, with multiple bids on one and a single bidder on each of the other two.
Bidding on all three was cautious. Although auctioneer Ted Ingram attempted to lift their offers by placing vendor bids on behalf of the buyers, the bidders stood their ground and all three were passed in for sale by negotiation.
You can see details of the properties offered at both auctions at the prices of those that sold, on our Residential Auction Results page.
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In fact, the higher proportion of apartments now on the market in Auckland has had the effect of pulling down the average price of total sales for Auckland (i.e. the aggregate of houses and apartments).
In May there were 453 apartments listed in Auckland, but this rose to 800 in June. (The average asking price for an apartment in June was $679,170 compared with $917,250 for all residential dwellings.)
If you take out the apartments, then HOUSE prices in Auckland are still climbing - in some of the more affluent areas.
Notably also, there are fewer houses for sale in Central Auckland now than 12 months ago.
This is a nuisance! I'd like to buy a house in Central Auckland for a dirt cheap price. I'm hoping for a drop in house prices of 50-60% by November this year and a drop in apartment prices of 60-70%. And maybe a further drop of 10-20% in December, prior to the January recess.
Some say I'm being a bit optimistic.
Others say I'm being a bit pessimistic.......
Certainly, it would be nice to get a firm footing on the property ladder.
Feeling lucky anyone??
Remuera 'grand dame' on the market - with expected $4m offers
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/property/news/article.cfm?c_id=8&objectid=118…
Also latest quarterly report: http://bit.ly/2tOWaMY
It's actually quite expensive when you compare to this in the middle of Manhattan - NY. this is way better buy for someone from Shanghai..
http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/72-E-1st-St_New-York_N…
Yes they haven't dropped in value just yet as they're simply not selling, just take a look at the latest Not Sold auction listings on this site for that evidence.
And not to worry, the rest of Auckland outer suburbs will drag the over price valued down in the next year or so as price bottom out.
Agree, just not selling.
When DGZ was half the price, it almost stacked when the private fees were more or less the same as the difference in zone premium. You could expect normal capital gain over time to make up the difference. Now you would need 10 or more kids to justify moving in. Then there's the 40+ classrooms, and teacher retention issues all about to get much worse with new apartments coming on line. Save $2m and live outside the zone.
$2m difference, at 5% interest still dosen't make sense. #justnotworthit.
yes totally agreed! Take a look at this one: https://www.barfoot.co.nz/601389
Said by who? What are their sources? You'd have to have an incredible amount of money and an incredible lack of useful things to spend it on to throw 4 million + maintenance + rates for 4 years to get a decent spot to watch a sports event in several years time, I hardly think that's likely to be a large enough group to affect the market.
Don't waste your breath on that. Everyone on this site knows that the Chinese have been buying and will continue to buy All The Houses At Crazy Prices. It's what they were put on this earth to do. Despite what the facts about non resident buyers actually are.
It's all a part of belonging to the Cult of Property.
Agree overseas buying activity is still active in some areas. Is the main reason why the many are going to vote to slam that door shut foreign speculation, and immigration. Picking a large party vote in Winston's favor, and a swing vote back to labor to make that happen. Nat will try an divert debate elsewhere, but Little and Winston just need to play one song and they will walk into Govt benches. Nats polling is clearly identifying this, as witnessed by their fiddling around the edges of these two issues.
Once the govt changes, (tax loss ring fence, compulsory cap gain for 5 years or more, overseas ownership shot, immigration stopped, identifying Chinese owners back to PRC for clarification of funding) the grizzly bear of capital decline will come to town. Foreign and domestic speculators will stampede in an effort to beat each other to the door. Yes it will be tough, but like Iceland NZ must takes its medicine and just tough it out for 18-24 months. Yes the the stupidly in debt will get flushed. This needs to happen.
The election is either accept massive inflation on wages (and all goods and services to pay for that), or a decrease in stupid house prices. Inflation will hammer everyone, house drop only hit the banks and the specuvestors. I know who I'm not voting for.
The change in the composition of sales is actually very important to understand. For example an area of 3 bedroom homes with developments selling large numbers of 4 bedroom homes can appear to rising in value very rapidly using a simple average sales price time comparison.
I appreciate that the mix of properties can effect averages, but you said:
"If you take out the apartments, then HOUSE prices in Auckland are still climbing - in some of the more affluent areas."
Come on.....they are hardly moving. You are clutching at the good news straws.
Range of sources could include comics. Particularly blue sky comics, where interest rates dont go up, where NZ is the land of milk and honey and yields mean nothing, banks dont want to make profits so reduce margins, banks lend to DTI's of greater then 10 and take massive risks, incomes of households are increased by having more children and sending them out to work.
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