[Myrkk]

Been looking on Bayleys website for houses around Wellington up as far as Masterton and Kapiti coast. Max. price $500000 which I thought was a fair price......... but it seems not. I'm drawing a blank on properties.

Can anyone tell me what prices are like in NZ at the mo. and perhaps suggest some estate agents around Wellington and Christchurch.

Many thanks.

[veronica]

Try www.realenz.co.nz or in real estate on www.trademe.co.nz

[sizzlingbadger]

Hi PM me if you're looking around Featherston, Greytown, Wairarapa. Depends what you're looking for but that budget sounds like you've got a fair chance of getting something:)

Know the market here inside out as I'm just going through the real estate training and we've just bought and sold in the area :D

Also generally have a look at www.open2view.co.nz might give you some other properties.

[mgbridges]

Trying reading through this excellent post http://www.emigratenz.org/forum/showthread.php?t=9378 as I'm sure somewhere in there is a list of all the major estate agents.

Good luck finding something!
Anneliese

[Helsandfamily]

Hi

I have been checking property prices around that area for a while, using real estate websites from GOOGLE. My OH just came back from the London Expo with a baileys brochure and I was shocked at the house prices (listed in GBP)

I wondered if they were aiming at the British market and think that they can therefore inflate prices...?

hels

[willsken]

Our local Baileys seems to carry the higher end of the market round here. Could that be the case of other Baileys?

[Smiler]

Our local Baileys seems to carry the higher end of the market round here. Could that be the case of other Baileys?

I think so, Nic. The Bayleys locally seems to be for high priced properties AND properties that are over priced.

This morning I've seen a house on Bayleys for $680,000. It's also with another agent and listed at $465,000. That's a fair whack of difference :exit

I'm waiting for an email confirming the price before I query it. :uhoh

[willsken]

I think so, Nic. The Bayleys locally seems to be for high priced properties AND properties that are over priced.

This morning I've seen a house on Bayleys for $680,000. It's also with another agent and listed at $465,000. That's a fair whack of difference :exit

I'm waiting for an email confirming the price before I query it. :uhoh

I went to Baileys on the first time going out to get info on houses when we decided to buy. Didn't go back again, totally out of my league..... by at least $200k!!:uhoh :uhoh

[Familyofmonkeys]

[QUOTE=Helsandfamily;158201
I wondered if they were aiming at the British market and think that they can therefore inflate prices...?

hels[/QUOTE]

Very definitely yes! But then, compared to London, prices will still seem cheap. Even locally advertised stuff is way over priced. Things very rarely go for asking prices....people are just being unrealistic. Anyway, market is now dropping a bit in Auckland...beware!

[Smiler]

They also seem the slowest to return emails, Nic.

I refuse to call them about properties though as I don't want to be hounded. We went to look at a house a few weeks ago, drove by didn't like it, but liked the area.


I mentioned to the agent,(not Bayleys) by way of example on what we were looking for, about a house in the same area that we like for it's style, position etc. The house wasn't for sale, just something that we liked.

The agent called me back the following day. She said she knew a family that lived in that area, she'd called them, got the details of the person that lived there. She called them and told them of our interest but they weren't interested in selling.

I was mortified and very angry. It was an elderly lady in the house and I felt very upset at what the agent had done. Is it anything to get a sale?:mad:

[willsken]

That's awful! :eek: and rude!

[Nick88]

It's an agent's job to find a seller and a buyer, the old lady might have been thinking of listing her house soon. How choked would you be to have bought somewhere close by, only to find the first house listed the next week?

I have family members who have had several people knock on their door and ask if they wanted to sell their house. They take it as a compliment.

[Smiler]

It may be their job to match seller and buyer, but I'm uncomfortable with the way they went about it in this instance.

She's an elderly lady and for all I know, may have been pressured into something she didn't want to do. This is a very small community and we certainly don't want to get known as the pushy, hard faced Brits. :uhoh

On the same day, we'd been to see a house about 65km away, listed with the same agent. A week or so later the guy ploughing the fields around our rental knocked at the door. He had heard some brits from our road been to see a house in his road, the same house we'd looked at. He wondered if we were going to move there because the vendor had a drinks party and was telling every one about us.

He also said the agent had called the neighbour's house and asked if they would refrain from riding their motocross bikes round their track while she was doing the viewing with us. They didn't and it was one of the things that put us off the house anyway, but we'd already spotted the track.

[Carol]

It's an agent's job to find a seller and a buyer.


Perhaps.....

And that is probably one of the reasons I could never be a real estate agent.
I have a different set of morals altogether.


:mad:

[Nick88]

I agree entirely, Carol. But if you don't ask.....