Impressive sales hauls indicate green shoots of recovery

Three separate Bayleys salespeople have rounded off the financial year with spectacular sales hauls of properties averaging $1million.

Each salesperson completed seven sales a piece in March, ranging from prime real estate in Auckland City’s inner suburbs to lifestyle properties in Waikato.

Herne Bay/St Marys Bay specialist Karen Spires from Bayleys completed an impressive $13million sales haul of seven residential properties in March - an indication of the first green shoots of recovery materialising from the Auckland city fringe residential property sector.

Four of seven properties were sold by auction in a trend which has gathered momentum over the last two years. The seven houses Spires sold ranged in value from $775,000, to a $4.35 million four-bedroom state-of-the-art ‘dream home’ on almost 1200 square metres overlooking the Waitemata Harbour.

Meanwhile, Bayleys Waikato residential and lifestyle salesperson Angela Davies rounded off the financial year with the sale of seven lifestyle properties.

Located between Cambridge and Hamilton, the properties sold from $500,000 to $1.2 million.

Davies’ sales included a 10 bedroom/10 bathroom Grade 2 listed historic home which sold for $733,000 and a lifestyle subdivision which sold for $1.2million.

Joining them in a stellar sales period, Bayleys North Shore residential salesperson Clare Ellis’ seven sales ranged from $662,000 to $1.7 million, with five of the seven sales sold by auction, with one being sold prior.

Spires, Davies and Ellis said the seven sales spectacular overshadowed even some of their best months in the boom years leading up to 2008.