Rhys Kerr - Ray White

10/09/2026

**The market doesn’t care what an agent promised in your lounge.**

Sometimes the hardest part of an appraisal is giving someone a number you know they don’t want to hear.

If the evidence suggests a home is likely sitting between $700,000 and $730,000, it would be very easy to nod along and say $750,000 (for context this is what they may have wanted to hear).

It would certainly make the meeting more comfortable. It might even win the listing.

But it wouldn’t make the property worth $750,000.

Another agent adding $20,000 to an appraisal doesn’t add $20,000 to the house. Buyers still decide what they’re prepared to pay, and the market eventually exposes an inflated promise for exactly what it was.

Usually after a few quiet open homes, some awkward conversations and the inevitable “market adjustment.”

My job isn’t to tell an owner the biggest number I think they’ll believe.

It’s to give them an honest, evidence-based view of where their property sits, then put together the strategy and tactics to achieve the strongest result possible.

That approach may cost me the occasional listing.

I’m comfortable with that.

I’d rather lose the business by telling the truth than win it with a number I can’t support.

**Protecting the reputation of your property starts well before the sign goes up.**

09/09/2026

August’s numbers are in. The market hasn’t crashed, boomed or caught fire. Sorry to disappoint.

Across Rolleston, Lincoln, Prebbleton, West Melton and Darfield/Kirwee, available homes dropped from 620 to 573.

Sales also fell - from 177 in July to 150 in August.

Here’s what was happening up to $1.1 million:

Under $700,000: 153 homes available and 40 sales. Supply remains relatively tight, although developers pricing spec homes below $700k are keeping everyone honest.

$700,000–$800,000: 154 homes available and 34 sales. This is where buyers have the biggest menu - and they’re reading every page before ordering.

$800,000–$900,000: 78 homes available and 29 sales. A healthier balance, but buyers are still comparing closely.

$900,000–$1 million: 52 homes available and just 11 sales. Homes are selling, but turning up with professional photos and an optimistic price isn’t quite a strategy.

$1 million–$1.1 million: 32 homes available and eight sales. A smaller pool, but proportionally this bracket moved better than the one below it.

Buyers haven’t disappeared.

They’re cautious, spoilt for choice and far less likely to fall hopelessly in love with the first home featuring grey carpet and a kitchen island.

For sellers, how your property is priced, presented and positioned from day one matters.

Every agent offers a free appraisal. They’ve all been free since about 1994.

The value is in having an actual plan to get the property sold.

Real Estate with Rhys - Selling homes, not clichés.

Protecting the reputation of your property since way back when.

03/09/2026

🚨 FREE APPRAISAL! 🚨

Steady on Nigel.

They’re all free. No one has paid for an appraisal since about 1994 (maybe not even then to be fair).

And getting an agent to tell you what your house might be worth isn’t the difficult bit. Let's call a spade a spade here, you have a pretty fair idea.

The difficult bit is knowing:

- What should you do before selling?
- What shouldn’t you waste money on?
- How should the property be launched?
- How do we create competition? (Bloody important!)
- And what’s the plan when things don’t go perfectly? (it's not all rainbows folks and kumbaya folks)

That’s the conversation worth having.

Give me 29 minutes and a sausage roll and we’ll put together an actual selling strategy and action plan - not just a price range, a branded folder and a fridge magnet.

Send me a message. Let’s talk tactics.

Real Estate with Rhys
Selling homes, not clichés.

Tell me your address. I’ll tell you what I reckon. No automated valuation. I’ll actually look at your property & recent sales. As you were - happy days!

01/09/2026

This is what it is all about.

Clients for 5 weeks, friends for life.

Thanks Deny and Caroline for trusting us. It has been an absolute treat working with you and your beautiful girls.

Real Estate with Rhys - Protecting the reputation of your property

Selling homes, not cliches.

29/08/2026

Up the Wahs and how good is Banks Peninsula!

28/08/2026

Turns out my vendors know my price.... 🍪

No, not the money kind.
The chocolate chip kind.

A little delivery from some very happy vendors today, which I reckon is a pretty decent sign we survived the journey together.

Sold signs are great.
Happy clients are better.
Cookies from happy clients? Elite.

Thanks legends. They’ll be treated with the respect they deserve.*

*They absolutely will not. They’ll be gone by 3pm.

Real Estate with Rhys - Protecting the reputation of your property.
Selling homes, not clichés.

27/08/2026

Selling a house. What could possibly go wrong?

45 Othello Drive is SOLD

And despite real estate doing its best to throw a few curly ones at us, Jason and Nicky were bloody legends throughout.

Flexible, presented the home fabulously, took some sage advice when required, and never once made me regret giving them my phone number.

There were a few twists in this one. A few decent conversations. Probably a couple of moments where we all stared into the middle distance.

But it never felt like hard work.

We had plenty of laughs, dealt with things as they came, and got the job done.

Jason and Nicky, genuinely an absolute joy to work with. Thanks for the trust, the laughs and for being such good buggers throughout.

SOLD. Happy days.

Real Estate with Rhys. Protecting the reputation of your property.

Selling homes, not clichés.

24/08/2026

“Communication, marketing and negotiation were good.”

Steady on. Jeremy O'Connor - Ray White Lincoln and I will struggle to get our heads through the office door after that.

Five stars. Everything went well. House sold.

No unnecessary carry-on. No Shakespearean monologue. Just a beautifully understated Canterbury review - basically the equivalent of:

“Yeah, nah… they’re pretty good.”

We’ll take it.

Real Estate with Rhys - protecting the reputation of your property.

Selling homes, not clichés.

20/08/2026

Got this little pack together for the Lemonwood Grove School Quiz Night 👌 Tickets, jerseys, beanies and some other bits and pieces. Some other local businesses have also contributed some awesome prizes!

Still a few tickets available too, so if you fancy a night at The Pedal Pusher testing just how much useless information about little known geography facts you’ve retained over the years, let me know and I can sort you a spot 😂

30th August.

Should be a good one!

As you were, happy days!

17/08/2026

Six homes. Six different stories.

All currently available across Canterbury.

Are they nestled in tightly held pockets?
Do they have seamless indoor-outdoor flow?
Will you need to act fast because this one won’t last?

Maybe.

But nobody talks like that in real life.

They’re six bloody good homes, looking for the right people.

No overcooking it.
No unnecessary adjectives.
No pretending every pantry is going to change your life.

The homes keep changing. I don’t.

Straight advice.
Good properties.
No pressure.

Selling homes, not clichés.

Real Estate with Rhys - Protecting the reputation of your property.