My thoughts are that when the market goes again it will take off very quickly. The main implication is that as each month goes by it gets riskier to keep holding out for the absolute bottom of the cycle if you are a buyer. Don't try to pick it but start to focus on what you really want – that house in Wanaka that you’ve been procrastinating about buying for too long!!!! But not just any house - the RIGHT house. Be fast out of the blocks to grab it when it comes up over the next 6 months. 

The latest statistics out on Wanaka property report that sales have not yet started to reflect what the feeling is out and about around the streets especially in the cities. When will the cycle turn or plateau and is there less urgency out there with the buyers keen to enter the Wanaka property market?

Are we finally seeing a buyers market – times are turning in many other areas of the country, hopefully, we have and its time to get out there and some fun in the Queenstown and Wanaka property market.

Probing discussions this week with a corporate type individual had me reinforcing my belief in the dual agent system prevalent within the Australian real estate market. Here there is commonly an agent for home buyers separate to the vendors agent, unlike we traditionally have in NZ. Ever since I sold my first home in Wellington [...]

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So many people have decided to sell up in the city, buy Wanaka property and move south in the past year. The recent lifestyle learnings have centered around working remotely. No longer is there an expectation that you have to be on site to perform to expectation. In fact quite to the contrary – [...]

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I spent lockdown thinking about a world where Wanaka property prices could be dropping. Although I did acknowledge that there was nowhere in the world that I'd rather be and thought that there would be expats wanting to get a slice of it. How wrong was I. For many Covid brought forward their plans to move south but for some the change of lifestyle came from a lockdown priority check. The net result has been a hike in prices to date in NZ including Wanaka.