Latest auction results: Harcourts' sells 86% at Waikato auctions

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Auction results: Auckland property sells for $5.86m. Buyers active at Harcourts' auctions in Auckland, Waikato, Taupo, Manawatu, Wellington and Christchurch

12th Oct 16, 11:13am by Greg Ninness

Harcourts had an exceptional week at their Hamilton auctions last week, with 14 properties put up for sale and 12 of them finding new owners.

Prices ranged from $436,000 for a house at Whitikahu (about half way between Taupiri and Morrinsville) to $1.28 million for a Cambridge property.

Just up the road in Auckland the cheapest property sold was a home unit in Manurewa that went for $520,000. The most expensive was a Karaka property that fetched $5.86 million.

The results of Harcourts' latest auctions in Auckland, Hamilton, Taupo, Wellington, Palmerston North and Christchurch, with the selling prices of the properties that sold and photos and details of all properties, including those that didn't sell, can be viewed on our Auction/Sales Results page, along with auction results from Barfoot & Thompson and Bayleys (tip: use the search fields near the top of the Auction/Sales Results page to search for auction results by location and/or by agency).

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8 Comments

by sammnz | 12th Oct 16, 8:30pm 1476257401

[Caps removed. That's shouting and uncivil. Ed.]
Like rates to a corpse Auckland investors the new slum lords.

by BigDaddy | 12th Oct 16, 1:12pm 1476231174

Interesting.
25 Auckland sales and where half failed to sell
The trend continues.
At this rate it will only be a matter of time before we have the Great Deflation across the whole economy
Interest rates will end up in double negative territory.

by Alter Ego | 12th Oct 16, 4:13pm 1476242011

I cannot believe this or any other Agency would even bother to advertise any of them.

This is a booming market, why sell...??

Buy.

Do Real Estate Agecies not know their subjects, their trade?.

Buildings only go up, Interest rates only go down, plus is tax deductible and the Banks would dearly love to deal with just one broker. A preferential deal could be given.

All real estate agents should follow this trend, should just buy them and rent them out, putting them back on the market, whilst doing so., Charge a negative rent as Capital Gain will take care of any shortfall.
If a buyer, does not come along, simply buy them again, for themselves. The Interest rates will have gone down again by then. The rents will have paid for the loans, as would be guaranteed by the taxpayers.

Thus the fair market rent surely would pay for all the costs incurred and as no fees actually change hands, no tax is derived from said purchase, hence the "Investment" is iron clad as inflation adjusted.

Rinse and repeat, no advertising costs, no Real Estate Agents required, no silly 'Open Homes' for thieves to wander through and ogle up the potential. No catch phrases to learn, no advertising costs, just pure profit.

Why take houses on to an open market, when you can lock it up into a single market as an investment.

Nothing can go wrong with this idea.

As pointed out, the Interest Rates would be negative, in just a few weeks, so Bingo, cannot lose.

This is a well tried format, I have had a lot of success with this and even have been encouraged to spread the spread wider, so we can all benefit from future rises.

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by Zachary Smith | 12th Oct 16, 8:18pm 1476256709

Cool new TradeMe tool. Find out how much your house is worth for free:

Property Insights

by David Chaston | 12th Oct 16, 8:28pm 1476257292

Actually not that cool. I checked my own property and the data is for 2014 ! Try homes.co.nz, at least they use reference pricing from current transactions for a current estimate. I sold a Waiheke property recently and the homes.co.nz 'value' came in within $2K of what was actually achieved - and a lot higher than what I thought would happen. So I was impressed. The Property Insights attempt still isn't anywhere near close, even today. Hard to be impressed. Both services are free.

by Zachary Smith | 12th Oct 16, 8:38pm 1476257912

Thanks for the advice, I'll check it out.
Update: Fairly similar for my properties but yes I would say homes.co.nz is the more accurate. I wonder if they just use RV and calculate from that. At very least it is a quick and easy way to get the RV.

by mja | 12th Oct 16, 11:33pm 1476268438

We have multiple properties on the Kapiti Coast, 200sqm brick and tile houses approx 8 years old. At auction last 2 to sell both sold for exactly 600 K, including one house in same street as we have two in. Homes.co.nz estmates value of two in street with direct comparable that sold for 600K (the sold property was 10sqm smaller with poorer aspect end of cul de sac on southern base of a small hill ie minimal sunlight), at 520+ 520K, trademe 560 + 570K. Trademe insights approx 5% below market value, homes.co.nz would be 15% off. Appears trademe insights algorithm more quickly reflects changes in market pricing, whereas as homes.co.nz lags. Out of interest for Aucklanders 600K buys a modern 200sqm brick and tile house on a 700 sqm section in a decile 8/9 school zone, in an area with minimal crime (up until 24mths previously standard price was 450K, this was the price since 2009, 2007 peak probably 475K).

by sharetrader | 13th Oct 16, 12:21am 1476271271

I checked my street and the block of seven properties in my patch vary to the tune of 40% from 600k to 1 million. not sure why, the two high priced ones have been brought and sold as investment properties so may have been revalued, the other two same 900 sm sections with no houses on the back have the same value as the houses that are now two on the section.
because of the land and zone (intensive building allowed) they would come in at a price closer to the higher priced ones if put on the market at the moment so my conclusion is it does not reflect reality when you compare to what has sold close by for what price in my street