There was reasonable sales activity at this week's main Auckland apartment auctions, although the number of apartments coming to auction remains at winter lows.
At City Sales a single property was offered, a 60 square metre, one bedroom unit with a balcony in the Avoka building on Day Street, on the harbour side of the Karangahape Road ridge.
The apartment's size and location meant it could have appealed to owner-occupiers as well as investors, but the building is in need of remediation work which would have restricted buyer interest.
There were still multiple bidders for it although the cost of remediation work meant the bids were low and it sold under the hammer for $182,500. That compares to its rating valuation of $310,000, and its 2015 purchase price of $325,000 (according to QV.co.nz).
There was also a single unit on offer at Barfoot & Thompson's regular apartment auction, a one bedroom unit near the university. But it was passed in without receiving a bid.
These included a one bedroom apartment in the Silo building on Emily Place in the CBD (pictured), two apartments in the Zest building on Nelson Street, and an apartment under hotel management in the Spencer on Byron building at Takapuna.
The two Zest units were originally offered separately but failed to sell, even though both units attracted multiple bids. But when they were both re-offered as a single lot at the end of the auction they sold under the hammer to one of the original bidders, which shows that there's more than one way of achieving a sale if you are quick on your feet.
The details of all of the properties offered at this week's main Auckland apartment auctions and the prices achieved on those that sold are available on our Residential Auction Results page.
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Not a lot of data really but someone took a big haircut below. I wonder what created the pressure to have to take such a massive loss over three years?
'There were still multiple bidders for it although the cost of remediation work meant the bids were low and it sold under the hammer for $182,500. That compares to its rating valuation of $310,000, and its 2015 purchase price of $325,000 (according to QV.co.nz).'
Remediation cost doesn't just apply to your unit, but the whole block. If it's bad, conceivably 'your share' could be more than the cost of your unit when it's repaired. Your unit may not be defective at all, but others may, and depending on what's wrong with them...well...
If the Avoka needs a reclad, then that was a very good price for it.
The reclad construction companies tender lowish prices for the reclad. Once they start the job the whole aim is to screw the bodycorp for more funds. Repeated time extension claims (impossible timeline programmed on original works) and works beyond scope claims. I am involved with one and the cost has already more than doubled the original contract price (not yet complete). It is a total rort and is sending some owners in the complex to the wall.
Yes and recladding may not fix the problem either. Basically its a construction/design problem from the ground up. Houses in New Zealand are made of matchwood, treated to H1.2 which is useless when it gets wet. We build fences out of H3 but use H1.2 to build your million dollar house, its nuts. Would no longer touch various building types in NZ, even if they were giving it away.
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