Category: Spring

Preparing your garden to entice buyers

There’s never a bad time to sell a property that’s in a great condition and priced right, but spring and summer definitely warm the hearts and attitudes of buyers. One of the wonderful aspects of selling your home in summer is that buyers can enjoy your garden in all its colourful glory. An important part…
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Perfect plants for trouble-free garden

Looking after a garden can be one of the great pleasures of owning a home, but it requires work and perseverance.  Not every plant will grow as you’d like, and some may even die. That’s just part of the gardener’s journey. Forming a vision for your garden before spending on plants can minimize the time…
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Planning a spring sale

Spring is almost upon us, and that heralds the start of the real estate market prime selling season. Many owners watching the market over the fall and winter months will now be preparing their homes for sale, believing mortgage cost cuts are just around the corner. The market is expected to slowly return to more…
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Embracing spring selling season

With the spring selling season upon us, many owners will be asking whether now is the right time to enter the market for a much-wanted upgrade to cope with a growing family, or to downsize and live a simpler life. The favorite selling period is from the beginning of April and through to the first…
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Adding garden color for spring selling campaign

We may be in the middle of winter right now, but it’s only a few weeks before spring and an excellent time to start planning your garden. It’s a smart play to research the plants you’d love to see this year rather than wander into your local gardening store without a plan and become overwhelmed…
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Seven tips to prepare for spring sale

Prioritizing personal circumstances is one of the best ways to determine when to sell a property. Despite high prices being recorded in many locations, plenty of homeowners have held on tightly since mid-2023 in order to avoid the 22-year high interest rates of 7% to 8%. But, with mortgage costs forecast to fall during the…
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Preparing your garden to entice buyers

There’s never a bad time to sell a property that’s in a great condition and priced right, but spring and summer definitely warm the hearts and attitudes of buyers. One of the wonderful aspects of selling your home in summer is that buyers can enjoy your garden in all its colourful glory. An important part…
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Bounce back likely in Spring selling season

Uncertainty among buyers and sellers about the outcome of the October election has added to the complexity of the New Zealand property market as it begins its value turnaround after a couple of tough years. Sales volumes dipped across the country in July, notably 15.4% in Auckland, as buyers and sellers wait for the poll…
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It’s time for sellers to make a move

Statistics and sentiment don’t always choreograph neatly when the property market turns the corner; and that’s what we’re currently seeing in New Zealand. Buyer sentiment has increased markedly in the past few months even as the pace of value declines eases.  The prospect that we’re near the end of an extended period of interest rate…
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Spring surge of properties will test market strength

The spring selling season is upon us, and it will be a litmus test for assessing the strength of the Australian property scene. More properties will come onto the market in the next few months, and the big question will be whether prices can sustain recent growth trends or dip in the face of buyer…
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