Overall auction activity and the auction sales rates picked up at Barfoot & Thompson's last auctions of the winter season.
Barfoots, which is Auckland's largest real estate agency, marketed 103 residential properties for sale by auction last week and achieved sales on 47 of them, giving an overall sales clearance rate of 46%.
The highest sales rate was at the Shortland St auction on 30 August where 11 properties from a mix of suburbs including Mt Albert, Glen Eden, Royal Oak, Mt Roskill, St Heliers and Mt Wellington were offered and eight were sold under the hammer, giving a 73% clearance rate.
At the Manukau auction on August 28, where 22 properties from suburbs including Howick, Pakuranga, Beachlands, Drury, Papatoetoe and Manurewa were offered, sales were achieved on exactly 50%.
At the big North shore auction the sales rate was 42%.
Prices achieved on the properties that sold ranged from $557,000 for a two bedroom home unit with a car port in Greenlane, to $2.36 million for a recently renovated three bedroom villa in Grey Lynn.
Details of the individual properties offered and the prices achieved on most of those that sold are available on our Residential Auction Results page.
Date | Venue | Sold | Not Sold | Total | % Sold |
27 August - 2 September | On site | 2 | 4 | 6 | 33% |
28 August | Manukau | 11 | 11 | 22 | 50% |
28 August | Shortland St, CBD. | 2 | 2 | 4 | 50% |
29 August | Shortland St, CBD. | 7 | 14 | 21 | 33% |
29 August | Pukekohe | 2 | 5 | 7 | 29% |
30 August | North Shore | 8 | 11 | 19 | 42% |
30 August | Shortland St, CBD | 8 | 3 | 11 | 73% |
31 August | Shortland St, CBD, | 7 | 6 | 13 | 54% |
Total | All venues | 47 | 56 | 103 | 46% |
24 Comments
Hi Mrs The Point,
It appears that you've missed the point...... again.
In fact, the Shortland Street auctions give a pretty good approximation/indication for the inner city areas.
If you had a property in Parnell or Ponsonby, then why would you auction it in Pukekohe?? That would be rather unusual.
TTP
Hi tothepoint,
Good to see you agreeing with my point, without even realising it. Thank you for the continued s*#^% and giggles. You are absolutely correct that inner city suburbs don't sell at Pukekohe auction. Neither do Highland Park, Botany Downs, Melons Bay, Halfmoon Bay, Farm Cove, Karaka (esp premium property), Papatoe, Otahuhu, Glen Eden, Onehunga, Henderson, Te Atatu, Massey etc, etc, they mostly sell at Shortland Street and FYI none of them are inner city suburbs. Have you ever even been to Auckland?
TTP
Did you not actually read the other article that you commented on this morning, which contradicts your above statement.
Auckland Listings are up 22% between July and August and Wellington 26%. So no listings are up and only the very motivated seller would use an Auction now and even that motivation is only yielding a 46% clearance.
Hi Nic,
Sorry, but your commentary above is misleading and deceptive. The NEW LISTINGS figures that you quote above represent the NORMAL SEASONAL trend. As Greg's article clearly spells out:
"August's new listing figures were almost unchanged from August last year when the website attracted 8729 new listings, suggesting the market could be holding a steady course and following normal seasonal trends."
Kindly note that TOTAL Auckland listings are up by a mere 1.1% compared with a year ago - and TOTAL Wellington listings are TRAILING what they were a year ago (down by 7.9%)...... That, of course, is a key reason why prices have largely held firm. [N.B. Other figures I've seen show that total Auckland listings fell by 0.5% compared with a year ago.]
And auction clearance rates have been higher over the last 2-3 months than they've been for a very long time.
It all points to the Auckland/Wellington property markets being more robust than some people here (no names mentioned!) would dare acknowledge.
TTP
14a Godfrey Place in Kohimarama was one of the auctioned properties. It sold for 110% of its 2017 CV. Average location with a shared driveway. Last sold in 11/09 for $720,000. I'm sure it's had some work done in the nine years since then. Basic premise is that the city will intensify so these places won't be created in the future at this price level. This is the bottom of the market for single dwellings in Kohimarama. The sweet spot is closer to $2.3 million. DGMs need not apply.
The DGMs constantly point out that the market is going to hit upper end properties severely and everything is interconnected. It just happens I have a fresh sale example to use to show that for that property, at least, it's a load of codswallop. Sorry if it doesn't fit your World view.
The DGMs constantly point out that the market is going to hit upper end properties severely and everything is interconnected. It just happens I have a fresh sale example to use to show that for that property, at least, it's a load of codswallop. Sorry if it doesn't fit your World view.
Monty Pythonesque. The sale of a single house doesn't fit a "worldly view." However, I think you're deadly serious.
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