MARKET IGNORES WINTER

It may be the warmer than usual conditions, long term pent up demand by buyers or all the above mixed with stable low interest rates but one thing’s for sure across the country at the moment… in almost all regions the market continues to grow, albeit slowly. We’ve mentioned before that the better presented properties […]

DE-CLUTTER

Want to sell? Got a great home? Love all those mementoes? Put them away! Clutter kills buyer imagination. They just can’t see how their possessions and furnishings will fit in if the floor, the shelves, the benches and the garage are overcome with too many of your memorials to good times. Do this and you […]

RURAL MARKETS ACTIVE

Early days but the economic news just gets better in the country. Fine wools look to increase returns to the farm gate of up to 60%, red meat is 30 – 40% up and dairy just keeps going. This has seen banks easing their deposit expectations of farm buyers, this in turn resulting in a […]

THE RAIN, THE DARK, THE MORNING…

If you’re just not too sure about that rather nice property and feel you need to give yourself some space to make a call…why not set a roster to drive by at different times of the day; during the evening and see if it looks an inviting place to come home to; in the rain, […]

NICE TOUCH FROM MR LANDLORD AND MS TENANT

It never rains but it pours, as they say! Just this week we heard of two separate instances where people involved in the rental market said “thank you” to each other! In the first, a professional lady was moving on after a couple of years in the same rental apartment and had been so well […]

MONEY MATTERS

I previously mentioned that interest rates looked to be settling, as is the media’s penchant for talking up the negatives… there are no negatives so they’ve gone quiet on that one. Perhaps the election will take their attention for the rest of the year and we can all just get on with life! Dr Bollard […]

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