Following on from the earlier post about what properties had sold in the Auckland Apartment Market recently this is an update from then with a few more sales going under the hammer. These are the results from a recent City Sales auction. Manhattan 2 Bedroom Sold Prior $215,000 Harbour City Studio Sold at Auction...
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Why Australia is Set to Follow US Path of House Price Doom by Kris Sayce on 25 March 2011 Money Morning reader David wrote us an interesting note about the fall of house prices in the UK: “I remember living in the UK sometime around 2006 – 2007 and house prices, like Australia now,...
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Jody Calvert describes her Mt Maunganui lifestyle as "living in a view". That's because this large, ground-level beachfront apartment commands a panorama over Pilot Bay and across the harbour to Tauranga.Sensational by day, the...
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To borrow from the estate agents' lexicon, this graciously and tenderly renovated villa offers More Than Meets the Eye!One minute's walk from Devonport village, Paul and Juliet Barnard's home appears from the street to be an attractive,...
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Pressure is on management fees at listed property businesses in the wake of last week's AMP NZ Office Trust shake-up.AMP's backdown to drop its base fee to a new low of 0.35 per cent for assets worth more than $1.5 billion set...
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A real estate agent advertised a property as being much larger than it was, eliciting a complaint to a state authority.Instead of 3.7 acres she advertised 4.9 acres, the Real Estate Agents Authority found, censuring her and saying...
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The effects from Christchurch's earthquake and the leaky building crisis are being weighed up in Fletcher Building's outlook.Jonathan Ling, chief executive of New Zealand's largest listed company, made a presentation to the Citi...
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Lawyers might take court action if the sale of the King of Tonga's Auckland mansion goes ahead, because they say the property may not belong to him.Tenders for the 1.6ha estate, named Atalanga, in St Andrews Rd, Epsom, closed...
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A standout in a street of turn-of-the-century villas, Mark Lenihan and David Hickey's post-war concrete box stood out for them, too.An ex-Auckland Electric Power Board sub-station, built in the art deco styling favoured by the...
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As a teenager, Ruth Shannon harboured dreams of becoming an architect. Her dreams didn't eventuate - she became a nurse - but they endured.When she and husband Ross decided to buy a section at Omaha eight years ago - thinking...
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