This post is not one that you would normally expect to see on a Real Estate Blog but I think it is something that I feel compelled to write about to make people aware of. My father had major depression in his life. It was something that he lived through after his motorbike accident. Dad…
Google Street View Now Live in New Zealand
Google today announces the launch of Street View on Google Maps in New Zealand: maps.google.co.nz/streetview. Street View is a new feature for Google Maps that lets internet users view and navigate 360 degree street-level imagery of New Zealand’s cities, towns, regions and remote areas. More than 100 metropolitan areas in six other countries around the…
To Many Homes "Unhealthy"
A million substandard homes are each up for a $22,000 bill to meet recommendations from a new national housing performance report. This report goes hand in hand with the New Zealand Houses series I have been writing about and this is one of the major things factors about the older New Zealand House. Houses built…
The Pukekura Park Festival of Lights 2008-09
The TSB Bank Festival of Lights dates for 2008-09 are 14th December 08 – 8th February 2009! This event is one of the more anticipated events of the year by many. It represents the start and continuation of the Christmas season and a truly wonderful event for the entire family to enjoy on a summer…
The Process of The Sale and Purchase of Property In New Zealand
By New Zealand Law all Contracts for the sale of land and property must be Negotiated in Writing. Most Licensed Real Estate Companies will use the standard form which is prepared by the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand and the Auckland Law Society. This contract covers the legal issues necessary to protect both parties…
Emotional Attachment to Selling Your Home vs Reality
In todays market it is both taking longer to sell your home and harder for buyers finance to be approved. This coupled with what seems prices dropping slightly every month is making for a very interesting and tough market to work and sell in. But there is always ways of making the selling process easier…
Building Inspection Checklist
This guide should help with sellers and buyers when looking at doing a property transaction. A good builder friend from New Zealand Home Inspections and me have put this together so that you may use it to your advantage. The information is probably the same as what you already know but it is good to…
New Zealand Houses – The Arts and Crafts
The arts and crafts era (1880’s – 1920’s) takes a side step from the traditional New Zealand home. Recently I have spoken about The Modern Townhouse, The Transitional Home, The New Zealand State House, Art Deco Homes, Beautiful Bungalows and The New Zealand Villa. But both before and during the time of the Villa another…
A Step By Step Guide To Buying At Auction
BUYING AT AUCTION: Auctions can be a daunting time to buy a property as some Auctions you may not have any idea where it might sell or what it is worth. In New Plymouth we have adopted a policy of publishing the Auction Reserve in order for the whole process is transparent. We do about…
New Zealand Population
One of the Reasons New Zealand is popular with people from overseas is our relatively small population and our very much untouched landscaped. The North Island is more populated and the South is less populated. Although the South Island has the best landscape which has been made famous with the Lord of the Rings Movies…
The First Home Buyers Market in New Zealand Gets Tougher
Yesterday the ANZ National Bank announced property loans will now have to have a 20% deposit. Now this closes up the banks and means that lending in throughout New Zealand is tightening up and buying is becoming a lot more difficult. The 20% deposit in many cases will now need to be savings which means…
The New Zealand House – The Modern Townhouse
Over the past few weeks we have been speaking about New Zealand houses and their designs. We have covered The New Zealand Villa, The New Zealand Bungalow, The Art Deco Age, The New Zealand State House, The Transitional Period Home and we are onto the Modern Townhouse. Modern Townhouses from the 1990’s to the…
100 Auckland Properties Go To Auction In One Big Event.
Yesterday saw a historic day for Real Estate Auctions in New Zealand. What is said to be this countries largest ever property auction event Ray White of Auckland auctioned 100 properties at one event. As David Leggott said in his blog the event was major. With models, balloons and a DJ involved there was more…
The Three Types of People in The World
Three types of people in the world…….. The recent and ongoing world economic crash is one which will be remembered by everyone for a very long time and will change the way things run and operate in the future forever. This change is not ‘going to happen’, it’s happening and if you think what you…
BNZ goes below 7 per cent mortgage barrier
BNZ is throwing down the gauntlet to other banks in slashing its lowest mortgage rate today to below 7 per cent. The ‘mortgage rates war’ was a key battleground four years ago when BNZ and ASB went at it hammer andtongs in the spring of 2004. That tussle over 2 year fixed rates gave the…
Christchurch Real Estate is online!
All original posts are below. All new posts are above. This will contine to be a great blog. Go to my other blog in the mean time. 🙂 Related Blogs Target exec: Mobile is not optional for us – Mobile Commerce Daily … FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Turkey is Media's Latest Target for…
New Zealand Houses – Transitional
In the Past four posts I have spoken about The New Zealand Villa, The New Zealand Bungalow, The Art Deco Era and the New Zealand State House. Now we move into the transitional era of housing for New Zealand (1960’s -1980’s). This is the time when we saw the beginning of the developer driven construction….
New Zealand Houses – The State House
In the previous posts we have spoken about The New Zealand Villas and Bungalows and Art Deco, now we get into the era of The State Home (1930’s – 1960’s). The first state houses in the 1930’s were designed and constructed to the highest possible standard budgets permitted. They were built so that no two…
How to Put Video Onto Your Blog
Quite a number of fellow bloggers have asked me how I put the video into my blog at the top in the left hand side. This is how you do it. First of all you need to create a video of something that you want featured. Then you need to host it somewhere. I have…
New Zealand Houses – The Art Deco
In the previous posts I have spoken about The Villa and The Bungalow. Now we move onto the Art Deco (1920’s – 1940’s). This style of home originated in Europe in the early years of the 20th Century. It became widely known following the great Exposition des Arts Modernes Decoratifs et Industriels, held in Paris in…
Weekly BNZ Economic Overview For New Zealand and Offshore
I just recieved this and have read it in debth and thought it was important to share this with you. It will give you a greater understanding of whats happening to date and what may happen in the future economically. Tony Alexander (Chief Economist, Bank of New Zealand) States Sharemarkets have weakened around the world again…
New Zealand Houses – The Bungalow
The Bungalow (1930’s – 1940’s) Yesterday I talked about the Villa. The Next to Come in New Zealands Housing History was the Bungalow. The evolution from villa to the bungalow was interesting. The ceilings were lower and double-hung windows replaced with casements, lead lights made an appearance, fretwork was phased out, the front door moved…
New Zealand Houses – The Villa
The Villa (1900’s – 1920) The New Zealand Villa is probably the first English influenced home to arrive into New Zealand. These grand homes are set amongst the more older neighbourhoods of the cities they reside in. Many villas were built for the more dignified communities of their time. Many of the Villas we see today…
2 Mortgagee Sales Sell at Harcourts Auctions in New Plymouth
This afternoon two further properties sold by Mortgagee Auctions. The two properties of 24 Tuiti Street in Waitara and 28A Record Street in Fitzroy went up for auction at 5:30pm today at our Auction Room in New Plymouth. There was a very large turn out of people who were obviously out to hopefully bag a…
10,000th Unique Visitors Milestone Achieved
A few weeks ago I was thrilled to have posted my 100th post but today my 7 month old blog received its 10,000th Unique visitor and 60,000th view (both on the same day 🙂 I know that there are many bloggers that get this many views every week, but for me, this is a fun milestone…
Christmas – A Time For Giving – Here Is A Free Gift From Me That Might Help Over The Coming Months
We have seen the Melbourne cup, experienced Halloween for 2008, been wowed by the fire crackers on guyfolks night, university is finished, secondary school seniors have finished school and are in exam mode sowhere does this lead us now. Christmas. December 25th. And then a week later its 2009. Its only 5 – 6 weeks away…
Moving
Once you have sold your property and bought another one too many people the hard part is done, but to many the hardest part is just about to begin. Moving home is often quoted as being one of the most stressful experiences we ever go through in our lives and a chore I will be…
A New Beginning, A New Start. Introducing Loren McInnes
Today marks a huge change in focus for my life and for my business. Coming into Real Estate at the age of 21and successfully grown my business for the past 18 months has been great and I have enjoyed every moment of it, even though the market is tough I have excelled. Over the…
allrealestate.co.nz is Leaving The New Zealand Market From November 30th 2008
This is big news for the real estate market in New Zealand. Especially for agents, vendors and purchasers. This is the official statement released by allrealestate.co.nz. “In New Zealand, the REA Group plans to end operations of its residential real estate website, allrealestate.co.nz, on 30 November 2008. The company will continue to operate its successful commercial…
New Plymouth Market Statistics October 2008
The median sale price for a New Plymouth City house increased to $302,000 (September 2008: $285,000; October 2007: $294,000). 79 houses sold in October (September 2008: 81; October 2007:90). 19 houses sold in the Taranaki Country area in October (September 2008:20; October 2007:29). The median price rose to $250,000 from $226,500 in September (October 2007: $238,500). Median Days on…