Jason Hood - Ray White Real Estate

21/03/2025

05/12/2024

Thirty years ago, UP Real Estate was founded on a profound belief: there is a better way.

A better way to connect with our community.
A better way to build a tribe.
A better way to master our craft.

We envisioned a world of Unlimited Potential.

Today, we are thrilled to announce an exciting new chapter in our story. From the New Year, the UP Real Estate family will officially merge with the Bayleys family.

This partnership unites the best of both worlds—culture, creativity, innovation, scale, passion, and dedication—to create a single identity that redefines the future of real estate.

We couldn’t be more excited about what lies ahead for us and our community. A future filled with Unlimited Potential, as we come together under the Bayleys brand in 2025.

27/11/2024

A pre-Christmas present from the Reserve Bank.

Today’s reduction of 0.5% in the OCR (Official Cash Rate) to 4.25% will be welcomed by all mortgage holders and those looking to purchase real estate. The first round of reductions was welcomed with an instant uptake in sales numbers. The closer we got to today’s announcement, it seemed the more both buyers and sellers played a waiting game. No doubt we will see a quick response from the banks albeit some may have already priced in this new rate. Standby….

Regardless, this can only be positive for the property market and the economy in general. With just three weekends until Christmas, most of our conversations are around the new year, however it’s not too late to list and be sold this side of Christmas.

20/11/2024

Such is the buyers attitude towards their choice of home! Without doubt, right now buyers are focused on keenly priced, well constructed, nicely presented homes with blemish free credentials i.e. a clean LIM, code compliant and well maintained. This focus is reinforced by the requirements of both banks and insurance companies. There’s no question that buyers purchase on a perceived “best value” basis, right now that is particularly the case. Home ownership is a very personal, often emotional thing, this can have some vendors blind to the reality of where their home sits in the market relative to others.

The market is busier than it has been for many months – properties are selling. If your home is not getting the attention you think it deserves, it may pay you to visit the open homes in your area and compare for yourself. Time on the market is not your friend, just look at the number of “watchers” on your listing. They could be waiting for you to indicate a selling range they perceive to be best value relative to other homes in your area.

16/11/2024

Just listed:
25 Felgrove Street, Glendene

OPEN: 12-12:30pm Sunday
Auction: 2:00pm Friday 06 Dec (unless sold prior)

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/property/residential/sale/listing/5019468936?bof=Qx8JQlYy

15/11/2024

Too much information?

We live in a real estate market where the access to information is now at every buyers fingertips. Whether it’s a CV or an estimate of a particular home’s value supplied by Homes.co, One Roof, Trade Me etc. The information is there for all to see. Estimates of value are algorithm based and don’t take into account the state of a property, but more particularly, take no account of a vendors circumstances. Consequently, the danger for buyers is that the decision to investigate to purchase can be made from a distance.

Our observation is that in many instances the supplied estimates are infact over estimate of not just the value but the vendors attitude to achieve a certain price. Consequently, we often use by-lines including “Disregard CV and portal estimates.” If you find a home online, you think might suit you please talk to us direct, the storyline may be quite different to your presumption.

In short, if you’re a buyer please phone us and make sure you get the right information “straight from the horse’s mouth”.

15/11/2024

4/191 Titirangi Road has found a new owner.

But watch this space – a new listing will be live very soon.