The most positive news for the real estate market this year was last week’s announcement of a fast-track pathway to New Zealand residency.

Over the past few years, the real estate market has primarily favoured the seller. If you were thinking about selling, you could easily find real estate agents who were willing to work with you for practically nothing to secure your listing and sell your home.

Professionals Group recently held the Annual National Sales Awards in Auckland where agents around the country came together to celebrate the success and achievements of the past year; a year that has shown that Experience Matters when choosing an agent to sell your home.

...since then, interest rates have climbed, and prices have fallen.

Hutt City Council’s interpretation of the new housing rules introduced by the government changes most of the valley floor zoning to ‘High Density Residential’, allowing a maximum height of 22m (6 storeys) and up to 50% site coverage.

Lower Hutt is now seeing a series of apartment developments popping up that are conversions of former office blocks which have been vacant for some time in central Lower Hutt. These new inner-city apartments will bring hundreds of people into the CBD, helping to revitalise it and breathe new life in..

Professionals recently held a First Home Buyer’s Seminar at our Cornwall Street office, where some of our agents talked about why renters might like to own their own home and what products are available to assist with getting on the property ladder. We were fortunate to have Kāinga Ora attend to dis..

All buyers have their own opinion on when it is the best time to buy a new home, many saying that winter is not the best time, that spring and early summer is a better time, and real estate trends show more transactions in spring than in winter. Not all buyers want to be traipsing around looking at ..

Surprisingly, the hardest time to buy a property is when no one else is, yet when we look back on other quiet markets, it’s normally with regret we didn’t jump in at that time. We find comfort following the crowd, yet right now some of our most successful investor clients are active. When thinking a..

Four months ago, there were 180 homes for sale in Lower Hutt, now there are well over 600. So, is now the right time to buy or sell? There are articles about where the market might be going, we’ve seen various predictions all before. Let’s just say, none of us are so clever that we really know when ..