Category Archives: Other

I thought it was worth going back to August 1999 and following through each August to 2009 and compare the movement in the market through the recession of the late nineteen nineties, boom years that followed, and then into the … Continue reading →

Steady as she GOES GREIG – The Hamilton market is unexciting at the moment, sure we have seen a level of recovery from 2008 but there is a long way to go to get back to levels of 2003 through 2006 … Continue reading →

What do they say about statistics -lies, lies and statistics – well sometimes they are hard to argue with.  Sales in July continue to reinforce the optimism in real estate circles that the market has bottomed out and that a … Continue reading →

 ARE OUR BLOGS A LOAD OF OLD BLOGGARY Yes I know the blog is called voices, but it seems to me some contributors have very little else to do and just like to hear the sound of their own ‘voices’ … Continue reading →

Have you ever wondered what happened to that listing on realestate.co.nz – the one you are tracking, the one where you are just waiting for that next price reduction before you contact that agent for a viewing and then BUY. … Continue reading →

 Who can trade during Easter? I once had a new Waikato real estate agency principal get upset when one of my sale people sent him a revocation notice that he was losing a listing on the afternoon of Good Friday.  Was … Continue reading →

Hopefully this will be the darkest day I will ever see in 20 years of real estate – over one hundred real estate company’s have closed around the country with another seven just yesterday in the North Shore area! Here … Continue reading →