Category: First Time Buyers

Five AI bots to help you create the perfect room design

Are you one of the thousands of buyers who attend an open home and immediately begin to visualise where you’d put your furniture? Encouraging buyers to picture themselves living in a property is an essential strategy for sellers.  Their agents tell them to declutter and depersonalise their apartments or houses so prospective buyers do not…
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Rate cut fires up market as we watch for tariff fallout

New Zealand property buyers enjoyed more good news with another cut in the Official Cash Rate (OCR). The Reserve Bank of New Zealand took the knife to the OCR for a fifth time since last August, reducing the rate 0.25% to 3.5%. Determined to spark up emerging economic growth and support the five-month momentum of…
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Buyers revel in low rates and wide choice of properties

With interest rates in full retreat, Kiwi confidence in the property market grows stronger with every month that passes.  The number of successful sales has increased 3.4% on last year’s numbers, and the average value rose 0.4% in the three months to March. The average property in New Zealand is now worth $970,000. Our property…
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Interior design trends shaping our home in 2025

When moving into a new home, one of your first priorities will be to put your stamp on it by injecting your own style or personality. It’s one of the great joys of buying a property.  It doesn’t matter whether it’s an apartment, condo or house, it’s natural to want to give it a personal…
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Buyers making moves as trillion-dollar market warms up

Understanding how values in Australian real estate are changing has a fundamental influence on any decision to buy and sell. Property is recognised as a reliable foundation on which to build your wealth.  However, your challenge is to navigate market fluctuations to avoid buying at the top of the cycle. Right now, Australia’s market is…
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Co-living trend emerges for young buyers

Property prices have been on the rise globally. Like Australia, many countries experienced huge spikes in values for houses and apartments during the pandemic. Rents also went through the roof. For first homebuyers, the property market has been especially tough, but new and innovative trends are emerging to overcome the challenge. The first of these…
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Five features exciting buyers in the spring selling season

When you’re selling in spring and summer, you should always seek an edge that will attract buyers to your property ahead of anyone else’s. With more homes coming on to the market across America, bear in mind that real estate can be a competitive sport – both for buyers and sellers. Buyers are competing for…
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Spring into action to create the perfect summer garden

No time to lose as summer buying season looms

Now is the time to start preparing your home for sale if you want to catch the waves of buyers who enter the US real estate market during late spring and summer. Some owners may delay, believing a better time to transact is just around the corner. However, as an experienced agent, I’ve found that…
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Eight ways your agent can clinch the deal

As an upsizer seeking to buy your next home, or a first homebuyer, you’ll be putting a lot of trust in your chosen agent to work hard to make the best possible deal when you’ve targeted your next property. Hopefully, you will have interviewed at least three agents who outlined their neighborhood connections and experience,…
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Summer of ’25 is ideal for new property adventure

With the peak selling season under way across America, many owners with real estate ambitions may still be pondering the timing of their move. It’s the perfect time to put your house or apartment on the market if you want to catch the summer wave of buyer optimism.  Industry data says homes are now selling…
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