real estate agents (Page 33)

Waiuku

Houses could replace motor camp

Century 21

Auckland businesswoman buys into Century 21 New Zealand with aspirations to expand

House prices

House prices plummet

Revealed: Takapuna is Auckland’s fastest-growing suburb

Property Tycoon

INTERNATIONAL: Hong Kong Property Tycoon Gave Away Children’s $400m Inheritance

KiwiBuy

Govt urged to support scheme helping low-income families buy homes

Christchurch real estate boss

Real estate boss loses appeal

Chow brothers

Chow brothers owe ex-worker $66k

farm sales

New figures show another drop in farm sales

Pepin Island

Island up for grabs

INTERNATIONAL: RE/MAX enters Sri Lanka’s booming Eastern Coast property market

‘We Missed the Mark.’ Realtors Apologize After Bizarre Property Ad Goes Viral (WATCH)

marketing video

AUSTRALIA: ‘We Missed the Mark.’ Realtors Apologize After Bizarre Property Ad Goes Viral (WATCH)

Lower Hutt property

Lower Hutt property for sale covered in native bush after three decades

David Sharma

Disgraced real estate agent David Sharma leaves victims with little hope

Bel Air Mansion

INTERNATIONAL: Watch – Inside an $88M Bel Air Mansion with a Hidden Car Elevator

Barfoot & Thompson

Barfoot & Thompson defends marketing tactics after adding 15,000 tenants to email list without their knowledge

house buying

How do I buy a house like a Kiwi?

Point Chevalier

‘Mum’s’ Point Chevalier house in family for 66 years sold quickly

Powell house

Concrete castle’s champion

Real Estate Marketing

WATCH: Real estate agent forced to delete raunchy ad (Australia)

Sandra Bullock

Sandra Bullock is selling up

housing development

Battle between homes and traffic

Karen Chang

Real estate agent pleads guilty

NZ property market

WATCH: Property Market – Are New Zealanders Being Kept In The Dark?

Heritage home

Heritage home in wealthy Christchurch area for sale after losing protected status

Kawakawa Station

Court orders Chinese owner of Wairarapa farm to settle access row before he sells

Harcourts

Bowing out after 18 years

ERA

INTERNATIONAL: Global real estate firm ERA declares 2019 its ‘Turkey Year

Nic Foote

Kiwi homeowners looking for love can now swap house keys!

Serena Williams

CELEBRITY: Serena Williams Sells Decade Old Property for a Hefty Sum

house prices

Sales slump hits hard

Uncertainty around legislation & difficulty accessing finance continues to impact sales volumes, says REINZ (full report)

CoreLogic

Auckland’s weakness not so much about value bands but geography

mum's house

Time capsule from the ’50s: Family selling mum’s house after 66 years

How many Real Estate Agents? REA licensing statistics (31 March 2019)

West Hollywood

PROPERTY VIDEO OF THE WEEK: Bird Streets House – 9133 Oriole Way, West Hollywood CA

Auckland house prices

Auckland house prices hit tipping point as buyer options increase

Married At First Sight

Married At First Sight expert John Aiken pulls home from auction

stun gun

INTERNATIONAL: Man used stun gun on real estate agent during open house

London property

INTERNATIONAL: Derelict London shack for sale for more than $4.5 million

Waikanae

Landlord of long-empty Kāpiti shops should be forced to lease them, business owners say

Chris Gollins

Not-so-new player sets up office

Spivey Real Estate

Spivey Real Estate joins PGG Wrightson

properazzi

ARE APARTMENTS SHOWING MUCH CAPITAL GAIN?

Sawtooth House

One-of-a-kind ‘Sawtooth House’ in Queenstown sold

Instagram

INTERNATIONAL: How This Real Estate Agent Scored Business Through Instagram

CELEBRITY: 50 Cent loses 30% on real estate deal with Mike Tyson

Upper Hutt developer Malcolm Gillies to concentrate on big ticket projects

Taranaki property market leads country in average asking price increase

Historic office conversion in Hawera showcases a shower in a vault

Auckland on the cusp of a buyers’ market

Upper Hutt

Big changes at the #1 real estate agency in Upper Hutt

derelict house

What happened to derelict house?

Chris Deutrom

AUSTRALIA: Jailed real estate agent decides against appealing five-year sentence

Auckland apartment owners

Auckland apartment owners regret buying units in development taken over by a hotel operation

trademe-property

Seven regions hit all-time highs in March

female real estate agent

Taranaki’s first female real estate agent

Tauranga realtor

Tauranga realtor’s charitable demeanor

Selling Sunset

INTERNATIONAL: Who is Chrishell Hartley? The ‘Selling Sunset’ Star Will Look Familiar

Ford Model T factory

Ford Model T factory conversion to lofts finally completed

real estate agent

Buyer made $700k overnight, vendors say real estate agent helped house flip

cheap houses

Nine New Zealand houses sold under $150,000 in past 12 months

Real estate agent

Real estate agent fined $6000 and censured for conflict of interest

Real Estate agent

Real Estate agent blocked and misled potential buyer in favour of own client

properazzi

The Future Looks Bright for Trade Me Property as it Casts a Darkening Shadow over Realestate.co.nz

Selling Sunset

INTERNATIONAL: ‘Selling Sunset’: Producer Behind Netflix’s First Docusoap on the State of Reality TV

power bills

House with zero power bills

Petone

Rising sea hasn’t sunk market

real estate agents

$20,000 in fines after buyers given wrong information about timber, pool

property report

WATCH: The CoreLogic Monthly Property & Economic Update for March 2019

Petone church

Century-old Petone church restored video

MAFS

AUSTRALIA: MAFS themed real estate sign goes viral

housing industry

INTERNATIONAL: The lawyers who took on Big Tobacco are aiming at Realtors and their 6% fee

Ron Sang

Ron Sang remodel remodelled

Paul Davie

Real Estate Agents lose jobs over race posts

Grey Lynn drops out of Top 10 list of Auckland’s highest sale volume suburbs, says REINZ

real estate deposits

INTERNATIONAL: Woman accused of posing as real estate agent, pocketing deposits

alleged gunman

Accused gave landlord notice

Devonport church

Devonport church conversion

Wellington

Wellington house sales held up by insurance

real estate agent

Did my real estate agent rip me off?

new housing standards

Real estate agents fear effects of insurance difficulties in capital

real estate agent

Not a great time to be a real estate agent

house hunting

INTERNATIONAL: Wells Fargo patents house hunting with an autonomous car

residential properties

February a lean month for real estate agents, new data shows

Number of houses sold across NZ falls by 9.5% in February, says REINZ

hotel sale prices

Secret Wellington and Auckland hotel sale prices revealed in new report

meth house

Meth house sale ‘as is, where is’

Auckland

Auckland remains a patchy market

Instagram

INTERNATIONAL: 5 Luxury Real Estate Brokers Who Are Killing It On Instagram

American Chopper

CELEBRITY: Why Won’t Anyone Buy ‘American Chopper’ Star Paul Teutul’s Compound?

Uber driver

A real estate agent who indecently assaulted a boy while working as an Uber driver has lost his battle against deportation to India.

remote bach

Most remote bach is ‘calling’

Ron Sang

Ron Sang-designed house and NZ contemporary art collection for sale

real estate agent

Cash-strapped agent censured

NAR

INTERNATIONAL: NAR campaign distinguishes Realtors from other real estate agents

nasty house

‘Humiliated’ in the ‘nasty house’

apartments

Wynyard Quarter: Multi-million dollar apartments launched

Queenstown development

Buyers might get a bargain at Queenstown development

Trade Me website

Trade Me: More opportunity to poach print advertising

CoreLogic

Homeowners pocket median resale profit of $195K each last quarter: a 20 year high.

Twitter

Property TWEETS of the week (March 5, 2019)

Piha

Most-viewed house on Trade Me

Nobilo

Waimarie property still listed while Nobilo seeks to refinance

churches for sale

8 former churches for sale

meth

Tenant to pay $4300 for meth contamination

55 Courageous Court, Newport

AUSTRALIA: Incomplete house the hottest in the country right now

Auckland Property

Auckland: A buyer’s market

Real Estate Agents

Glamour of real estate wheeling and dealing fades, disenchanted agents on job hunt

Bella Vista Homes

51 charges filed over Bella Vista Homes

NZ property market

NZ property market ‘not like Australia’

top independent agents

Australasia’s top independent agents recognised

Elon Musk

INTERNATIONAL: Elon Musk sells incredible LA spaceship-shaped mansion with giant ‘moat’ swimming pool

real estate agent Aaron Drever

Disgraced Auckland real estate agent Aaron Drever sets new censures record

REINZ calls for financial support for landlords to help meet the healthy homes standards

capital gains tax

WATCH: Would a capital gains tax ease house prices

price plunge

AUSTRALIA: ‘Desirable’ property’s dramatic 13 per cent price plunge proof of downturn

Rental houses

Where are the rentals?

Jock Kooger

Real estate agent’s video stunt gets him noticed

Coe Property Management

$4100 bond, no house

capital gains tax

Billion-dollar tax for commercial property

REINZ questions whether CGT will improve housing affordability in the long term

Sir Michael Cullen

The Tax Working Group has announced support for a tax on capital gains, and income tax cuts

real estate agencies

INTERNATIONAL: Devils that invaded real estate agencies

real estate agency

Kiwi house buyers being ‘ripped off’ by real estate agents, says real estate agent