Everything was passed in at Barfoot & Thompson's apartment auction this week, while 100% sold under the hammer up the road at Ray White City Apartments

It was a game if two halves at this week's main Auckland apartment auctions, held in unseasonably warm and sunny conditions on the first day of winter.

First on to the field was Barfoot & Thompson, with three apartments on offer at their Shortland Street rooms in Auckland's CBD.

All three were upmarket offerings in recently completed complexes and were the type of apartments likely to appeal to owner-occupiers, particularly young professionals or retired folk looking to sell a family home in the suburbs and move into a city apartment.

Over the last few months these types of apartment have tended to fare a bit better at auction than the smaller units popular with investors, but at this auction the bids were thin on the ground.

The first apartment offered was a two bedroom/two bathroom unit in the Sugar Tree complex on Union St and it was passed in without receiving a single bid.

The other two both had just one bidder each and their bids were not high enough to get either of them across the line and they were both passed in.

The second half was a livelier affair played out at Ray White City Apartments' rooms on Lorne Street, where another three apartments were on offer.

Two were studios, one in the upmarket Precinct Residences building on Lorne St, and the third unit was standard investor fare, a two bedroom unit in the Zest building on Nelson St.

All three attracted competitive bids from multiple potential purchasers and all three were sold under the hammer, to cheers from the appreciative crowd on the sidelines.

Check out the full results from both auctions, with the prices achieved on the properties that sold and the details of the properties that didn't, on our Auction Results page.

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