Barfoot & Thompson says top three sales people sold houses collectively worth over NZ$200 mln in past year

You sure this is the list for Auckland agents?  Sounds more like Beijing?

Honey bees around the Honey pot.

$200 millions = approx 1 million buck commision each (at BT's lowest commison scale). Wow beat working at McD anyday!

Anyway, Nadja Court and Diana Buczkowski.. that's unusual chinese names???

How many offshore buyers account for these sales? 

For people wanting evidence of overseas buyers this should give a clear indication of what's happening in the Auckland market.

This one Chinese agent I met (not in the list), hired 3 assitants (1 indian and 2 pakeha), worked long hours throughout the week (phone calls and knocking on doors 9 PM on a Sat night). Majority of his clients (sells or buyers) however, are not Chinese. Not sure if he's born here, accent not telling.

As Yoda would say "tall poppy syndrome is alive, the dark side I sense in some of you"

But good on them is all I can say.. if they see an opportunity and took it then they deserved their earnings..  

Which ones are under 30 and single please?

SK.

Are auctions the predominant method of selling in Auckland city? If so then you wonder if this sort of behaviour is happening in pushing up prices. If there are other cultures involved in the process with different expectations of behaviour then it could be common place and also quite hard to detect.

In Auckland, by and large the Asian agents service Asian clients, so this result clearly shows the extent of the Chinese driven property boom, whether they be residents or non-residents.

It is extremely sad that in such a short period of time the effective sovereignty of NZers is being given away to whoever wants to come here.  

And all to what end?

All this immigration has done, is to drive house prices out of the reach of locals, swamped job markets and bring very little in the way of true economic growth.

NZ could easy have survived, in fact thrived if the Asian and Pacific immigrants of the past three or four decades had not encamped themselves upon our shores.

Decades of inept leadership plus a total lack of understanding about the consequences of such immigration has left NZ in a situation which nears irreversibility.  Once migrants and their descendants outnumber locals, democracy means immigration will be allowed to swell their ranks further still.

Do NZers whose parents, grandparents and great great grandparents carved this country out of windswept hills and scrub, have to endure subjugation at the hands of an immigrant population forcing them out of their own cities and indeed their own country?

That is not what our great uncles and cousins died for on the beaches of Galipoli or the fields of Flanders.

It is not racism to demand the protection of our identity or culture.

I am not opposed to sharing NZ with peoples from around the world.

I am opposed to an unending tide of immigrants from one region establishing their own city within a city, like some invading and occupying force.

NZ can not handle such tsunami of immigrants, nor should its people have to endure it.

Tony Alexanders study that Asians are not influencing house prices is now shown up as the five minute think tank that it was. Asians are controlling the market in Akl. Most of the fast moving builders are Asian, the agents are Asians and the buyers, especially on the shore are Asians.I went to an auction last week and out of the 40 possible bidders there was one European. The Asian agent selling the house actually told me that the builder (Asian again) had placed the spec home in his mothers name so that he could avoid paying tax on it. The next one was going in dad's name. Another agent said that in his opinion money laundering was going on at a massive level.

One way the invasion is gathering legs is the way immigrants can bring in parents if the centre of gravity is now in NZ following the childrens transit to NZ. As the one child policy this means that for every "worker / tax payer" (not sure if my spec builder qualifies here) you end up with approx 1.2 elderly folk who after 10 years in NZ can get full pension and health without ever paying any tax. It is so visible and wrong but our leaders ignore it. NZ First has picked up on it and are starting to make some noise and if they continue then for the first time Winston has my vote. Immigration is said to be small at the moment but this type of immigration is just plainly criminal. Auckland does not need to grow with these people. Unneccessary stress to healthcare, transport, education and the pension plan can be stopped right here.

Another point noticed is our young asian neighbours have dissappeared but the two pre schoolers children they have are left with the grandparents. I presume that having got all the paperwork sorted, brought out the folks and set up the bolt hole with some spare dirty money they have returned to get a bit more. It is so laughable - a bit like the Russians saying that when it comes time to hang the Americans the yanks will sell them the rope to do it. Does anyone think the Chinese would let us get a pension, never having worked in China or paid tax? . NZ need to wake up else we will turn into another Fiji where the massive Indian immigration turfed out the natives and caused such social unrest that it is still getting sorted. Singapore is another example.

A final point - when you went into an Asian cafe last time did you notice that the whole crew was Asian. Its not just houses they are buying.....

Around 6000 real estate agents have left the industry since 2007, while Jane Wang sold around one house every three days.

http://www.3news.co.nz/Jane-Wang-The-exception-to-the-real-estate-rule/tabid/367/articleID/160998/Default.aspx

Is this clever or what? or is it a swindle?

You need to read both articles in conjunction with one-another

Home-build lure for Asian migrants

Develop a new build in Taupo that you are not allowed to live in

What the heck are they going to do with it?

In NZ Herald

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10885812

In The Borneo Post

There are also tax advantages because as an investment-friendly country, New Zealand has no stamp duty, mortgage stamp duty, land tax, property purchase tax nor capital gains tax. Some countries (eg Australia) require property buyers to pay stamp duty tax, up to 3-4 per cent of the purchase price.

Plus buying from overseas is simpler than it sounds. The government has no major barriers for overseas property investors and the market is growing with an upwards trend of 7-8 per cent, surpassing the 2007 peak. The value of property projects involved with lifestyle activities has grown at an average of 20 per cent and sales of such projects have increased in value by up to 10 per cent.

“The property has up to 45 per cent discount on registered valuation and there are 75 lots in total. Prices start from 112,000 NZD.”

http://www.theborneopost.com/2012/10/14/kingfisher-at-great-lake-taupo-a-chance-to-invest-in-nz-property-myland-partners/

google "kingfisher lake taupo" lookit all the promos in malaysia