September 1st 2008. The official 1st Day of Spring and 6 days till my birthday 🙂 Let’s hope that winter is finally over! Officially Winter is from the 1st of June to 31st August. This years winter was pretty wild. Our first major storm of the year way June 25th. I even wrote a post about it here, but what followed from this for the last 2 and a half months has been just shocking. In New Plymouth we have not had a fine Sunday in 7 weeks until yesterday. And this is echoed by the latest NIWA Research stats where it says wellington had only half the amount of sunny days as on Thursdays so far this year.
Many of the country saw more than two times the average rainfall in only a few short days at a time. Sometimes this happening more than once in the same month. Now after a drought this was a huge change and much of the country was not prepared for so much water to fall. The other side of this is the amount of snow fall in New Zealand. Mt Taranaki experienced its lowest snowfall recorded in 10 years and Whakapapa Ski Field has got the deepest base ever recorded of 4.5 meters. And many south island roads were closed because of snow fall and slips and water related problems. So it’s been fairly dismal.  But the NIWA predictions for this spring are to be warmer and sunnier than usual. We will see.
Now will spring “spring” some life into the real estate market? Well here is hoping. Winter was dead and quite frankly a letdown… But traditionally this is how the housing market works. And spring always brings heightened activity to the market. With more people coming to the market and buyers starting to buy there will be more sales and movement. So if you’re a Vendor that has had your property on the market over winter and still haven’t sold. Don’t give up hope. The new season may well bring more interest to your property.
Real Estate is a very much run on the people and how they feel about things. Winter is genuinely a time when we like to relax, stay warm and nothing much happens. During the winter people’s property doesn’t look as good as well so many sellers don’t want to come to the market. Trees have no leaves, the lawns could be soggy, no flowers are out and the vege garden may be in a terrible state. But spring is when all this turns all around and starts to beautify. The gardens are all in flower. The daffodils and other bulbs are in full flower. The trees are starting to leaf up. Everything is just full of colour and its warmer. The downside to the ones of us who get hayfevor is the pollen at this time of year.
So from here on let’s look upwards to a good season. There is no looking back.
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Aah, another Virgo… Happy Birthday for this month Deon
Hey thanks heaps Debbie.
And being a Virgo rocks.