Comments on: Media seriously impacts the psyche of NZ’ers when it comes to property

By: » The credit crisis - New Zealanders’ interest in real estate takes a hit - Unconditional - The impartial voice of the New Zealand Real Estate industry

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:06:43 +0000

[...] this year in a post entitled “Media seriously impacts the psyche of NZ’ers when it comes to property” the correlation was shown between the media headlines and visitor traffic to real estate [...]

By: » Enough evidence to predict property market is warming up - Unconditional - The impartial voice of the New Zealand Real Estate industry

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:32:13 +0000

[...] more active. The graph below tracks this basket of 6 websites through 2006/ 2007 / 2008. The post earlier in the year sited the striking coincidence between the timing of extensive media coverage [...]

By: » Searching for mortgagee sales remains a focus of buyer attention - Unconditional

Thu, 29 May 2008 09:34:45 +0000

[...] If the spike in searching in the first week of the April seems an anomaly – there is an answer, in that week TV3’s Campbell Live aired a piece on the real estate market and highlighted the extent of the growing stock of mortgagee property as well as the growing interest demonstrated by search queries on the site. Within the first hour after the show the level of searching on the site skyrocketed – who says the media do not influence consumer psyche?! [...]

By: » Traditional media begins to recognise the influence of blogs - Unconditional

Fri, 23 May 2008 22:44:46 +0000

[...] is interesting and quite telling (given the media’s reaction to my prior post on the correlation between web traffic and media coverage of real estate) that the NZ Herald have [...]

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 14 May 2008 08:15:39 +0000

I think Olly Newland was about right last night; 95% probably don;t need to sell. As for people who bought sections and expected to make a profit on settlement I say thats just tough. I have heard of people walking away from $60,000 deposits in these situations!

By: » Who’s to blame for the property market slow down? - Unconditional

» Who’s to blame for the property market slow down? - Unconditional — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:47:00 +0000

[...] and this week, this subject seems to have attracted a lot of media attention and speculation. The blog post on the correlation between media speculation (no, to be fair and consistent it was not speculation, [...]

By: ian

ian — Tue, 13 May 2008 06:38:37 +0000

OOps too many zeros!!!

By: ian

ian — Tue, 13 May 2008 06:37:30 +0000

Its not a bad thing,having media interest(albeit sometitmes manic!)because the REINZ are self governing,and like a lot of agents,would like to believe that theres nothing wrong with the market,hence not reporting why the the house prices continue to rise ie., mainly houses over $6000000 selling!!A healthy open system.

By: Bernard Hickey

Bernard Hickey — Tue, 13 May 2008 04:21:03 +0000

Ross,
Well spotted. interest.co.nz has sold a feed of its news to nzherald.co.nz for publication online only. The Herald’s own journalists, rightly, spend the day writing up a story to published the next day in the paper
cheers
Bernard Hickey

By: » REINZ statistics for April show extreme market conditions - Unconditional

» REINZ statistics for April show extreme market conditions - Unconditional — Tue, 13 May 2008 01:57:09 +0000

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