Wow it seems just minutes ago I typed about my excitment at mapping applications / possibilites.
And then tonight on Reality TV, Channel 7 I think it was, MasterChef introduces a 24yr old demographic anaylist……a what?
Readers will know this is not the first time that I’ve got excited about “situational awareness” applications……so guess what?
If you classify yourself as “tech aware” and haven’t been living under a rock, then you’ve obviously seen this fabtastic “future aware” video that I visited last year. Otherwise then I hestiate to say you might have missed your “Susan Boyle or Jamie Pugh” tech moment, and not quite be on the same page?
One of the main “gists” to take away from this is that the jobs teenagers/graduates will be fighting/applying for in 10 Years haven’t even been invented yet!!!!!! Imagine that?
Against that excitment heres a guy in NYC that has already interepted this want, and has created this basic upsize on the WalkScore scenerio. He’s got others on his site, like a Men Vs Women as a % of population awareness for the States, but thats not really Real Estate related news.
Your thoughts?
May 04 2009 | Nelson | No Comments »
Hot on the heals of a article “worded how they wanted it to be” its quite fasinating to see it in all its glory locally.
As further encouragement to the beauty of “advertorial” stuff I haven’t seen a better example locally for some months.
Over a year ago a new retirement home opened in Nelson, launched by Ryman Healthcare. Whether you like them or not doesn’t matter in these circumstances.
In amongst the speed of information desemination that we have got used to (yup, even in NZ’s Web 0.75 world) you can rely on the ether to impart positive or negative info reasonably summarily.
So its with that background, AND the fact that two of my past sales (about to be third) have been from vendors who are now happy residents there that I find myself typing this……………..next line.
I type about retirement homes or something similar in NZ, and GOOGLE is meant to deliver the goods.
Well after clicking on those on page 1, I have to hunt, and I mean HUNT to find this place mentioned above.
NOTE – In case you’re wondering. Yes that is “The World” visiting Nelson in the photo left. Does that mean we are World famous?
Ok, so thats cool…..hunt then to your hearts content….whats the problem?
Well in the back of your mind remember this is a small provincial town in NZ, we are not talking Auckland or Wellington here.
WELL, here it is………
Ryman had audacious (starting to use that word too much) plans to open this new concept to a small regional New Zealand town, Nelson in this case, and on the drawing board were ultimate plans for a site including amongst other things, 64 x 2 bedroom – 2 bathroom stand-alone brick townhouses.
Well guess what, here we are in May 2009, just over 15 months since the first resident (my previous vendors) took up occupation and one of my latest listings, are selling their home of over 20 years right in the centre of Nelson, riverside actually, to become buyers of a unit in this same mentioned complex with a house number starting above 85! Yes you read that right….do the maths.
That is all within 15 months from first occupant, whose home I also sold back in Jan 2008, and by selling there home in Stoke offered them the opportunity to move there.
Sorry to lead you this far, but there is serious reason for this.
Today from Brisbane I decided to find out what the internet would recomend as a place for my Mum to retire to (low maintenace and 24hr care wise/style in Nelson).
And guess what?
Google says I should look at…………
Via a re-direction I arrive, well you type in www.seniors.co.nz and see where you go… here.
And as I hunt through 3 pages on this 2009 Webby Award nominated site do I happen to notice that no-where is the above mentioned place noted. Sad. Others could say Fail, but I won’t.
Interesting considering that over the space of just over 13 months 85 x 2 bedroom standalone townhouses valued at approx. $300k each have been sold.
Its been a few years between detention periods but within a little over 12 mths I would have though that basic maths calculations would tell that over $20m of sold retirement property in a small NZ provincial town should have at the very least, registered on their radar.
So at the risk of getting shot down by someone, I’m gonna stick my head out and say shame on you grownups.co.nz for not telling the whole story.
CONCLUSION
If you are going to consider moving somewhere (anywhere, it doesn’t have to be Nelson in this particular case) there is, based on this, reason for you to check with locals “on the ground” so to speak.
May 04 2009 | Nelson | No Comments »
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