http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/ The latest news from the Taranaki Harcourts team en-nz Taranaki Harcourts 30 http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/img/common/logo.gif http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/ http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/76-understanding-negotiating-ranges/ Harcourts Negotiating range is just that - a negotiating range. It is not a price or a price indicator. What we are saying to you is that given an offer in the negotiating range - our seller will negotiate, and a sale figure acceptable to the seller can be settled on within the negotiating range. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/75-auckland-house-prices-at-23-month-high/ The average house price in Auckland is the highest it has been in nearly two years, according to real estate agency Barfoot & Thompson. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/71-main-centres-widen-property-gap/ A gap in the strength of the housing market is opening between the three metropolitan centres and the rest of the country, a new survey shows. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/73-main-centres-widen-property-gap/ A gap in the strength of the housing market is opening between the three metropolitan centres and the rest of the country, a new survey shows. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/69-new-dwellings-good-news-for-construction-sector/ Figures published today suggest the construction sector is continuing to claw its way out from the depths of the building downturn. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/74-psis--southern-cross-raise-fixed-mortgage-rates/ PSIS and Southern Cross Building Society raised fixed mortgage rates this morning by between 5 to 25 basis points, but have left their variable rates unchanged. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/72-regional-towns-hit-by-rising-mortgagee-sales/ Regional towns across New Zealand are feeling the squeeze as mortgagee sales hit another historic high in September, according to the latest figures from Terralink International. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/67-harcourts-figures-show-sales-up-again-but-listings-low/ Harcourts latest figures show the good volume of written sales that occurred across the country in October was not matched by the traditional upsurge in new listings normally seen in spring according to Harcourts New Zealand CEO Bryan Thomson. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/66-harcourts-continuing-to-grow/ Despite the troubled economy over the past year and a half, Harcourts real estate group has continued to grow in New Zealand and Australia, according to Harcourts International Managing Director Mike Green. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/65-harcourts-new-zealand-s-figures-for-september/ Harcourts New Zealand's figures for September, a month where each year we typically see a spring boost, show a continuation of more buoyant sales levels in most locations when compared to the previous year and a lift in new listings too. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/64-pricing-your-home-unwise-in-current-market/ People currently putting their homes on the market in New Zealand or Australia with a price tag on them are not doing themselves any favours according to Harcourts International Managing Director Mike Green. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/63-harcourts--international-expansion-gaining-momentum/ Harcourts' global expansion is gathering momentum, with growth in existing markets and considerable interest from other countries too, according to the Head of International Development for Harcourts International Aaron Hodson http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/62-population-growth-helps-housing-market/ New Zealand had its highest annual net migration gain in nearly five years during the 12 months to August, figures published by Statistics New Zealand (SNZ) today show. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/61-harcourts-auctioneer-wins-australasian-champs/ Harcourts auctioneer Phil McGoldrick yesterday won the prestigious Australasian Real Estate Institutes' Auctioneering Championships, achieving the pinnacle of success in his professional field. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/60-the-harcourts-foundation-reaches--300k-milestone/ Launched only a year ago The Harcourts Foundation has just reached an impressive $300,000 milestone in funds raised. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/59-harcourts--website-record-reflects-returning-confidence/ Last month Harcourts' New Zealand website attracted its highest ever number of unique visitors , reflecting the returning confidence in New Zealand real estate according to Harcourts New Zealand CEO Bryan Thomson. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/58-harcourts-reports-good-sales-volume--lift-in-listings/ The latest statistics from New Zealand's largest real estate group, Harcourts, show the amount of property being sold continues to be well up on last year while the volume of new listings has moved to a new level. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/57-market-conditions-constrain-retail-rental-growth/ Market conditions are constraining prospects for rental growth in Kiwi Income Property Trust's retail portfolio, chief executive Chris Gudgeon told its annual meeting. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/54-capital-gains-tax-on-property-still-alive/ The government is not ruling out a capital gains tax to keep the housing market under control. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/56-auckland-house-prices-tipped-to-rocket/ Auckland house prices will rise by almost 30 per cent in the next three years putting the city ahead of every other region in New Zealand, a study predicts. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/55-shut-your-loophole/ If New Zealanders have a love affair with property investments, it's one where government and regulators have acted as pimp. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/49-house-prices-could-rise-by-11pct/ House prices could grow by as much as 11 percent nationally in the coming year, and by 24 percent in the next three years, a new report predicts. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/50-house-prices-set-to-soar/ House prices are set to lift 11% by next year and 24% by 2012, according to a report from Infometrics. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/51-property-values-rise-for-third-straight-month/ New Zealand property values rose for the third straight month amid solid sales activity, as low interest rates and a shortage of quality housing keep the market active. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/48-property-prices-continue-to-rise/ Property prices increased for the third month in a row in July, as the national 12-month decline in values fell to 5 percent, property valuation company QV says. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/52-tips-to-get-top-house-prices/ After a tumultuous 18 months, the real estate market seems to be shaking off some of its malaise. Prices are showing signs of stability and sales volumes are increasing. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/47-now-a-good-time-to-buy-a-house--survey/ Housing confidence continues a lift that started a year ago, with a clear majority of respondents seeing now as a good time to buy a house. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/45-harcourts-offers-global-marketing-opportunity/ Harcourts International is providing further global marketing exposure opportunities exclusively to its clients through having its residential listings included on RELOHomeSearch.com, a global home listings website. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/46-record-numbers-of-auctions/ The shortage of real estate listings in cities around the country has seen record numbers of home owners auctioning their homes. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/44-harcourts-listings-added-to-new-google-maps-search/ Harcourts' ongoing leadership in the real estate sector has been further reinforced with its residential property listings now being available via the new Google Maps' search feature. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/43-harcourts-reports-significant-lift-in-sales-continuing/ Harcourts latest statistics show the New Zealand property market is continuing to experience significantly higher levels of sales activity than 12 months ago, according to Harcourts New Zealand CEO Bryan Thomson. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/42-announcement/ Harcourts Taranaki wishes Mark Ferguson all the best with any new endeavours. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/41-christchurch-realtor-reclaims-harcourts--top-spot/ Christchurch real estate star Alison Aitken has reclaimed the top spot in Harcourts after five years as Number Two, last night being named Harcourts Number One Sales Consultant in New Zealand and Number One internationally for 2008/09. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/37-research-shows-harcourts-is-no--1-with-homeowners/ According to a nationwide survey of homeowners by The Nielsen Company[1], Harcourts has the highest awareness and is the most preferred real estate brand in the country. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/38-challenging-year-creates-opportunities-for-harcourts/ Mr Green announced that Harcourts had had another record-breaking year of growth, with the group increasing marketshare and growing internationally by 40% and finishing 2008/09 with 609 offices, having over the last year established significant joint ventures with Homenet in South Africa and Dougmal in New South Wales. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/35-wgt-region-no--1-confident-about-2009-10-after-record-month/ Taranaki realtor Glenn Green, today named Number One Sales Consultant in Harcourts' Wellington region for an impressive third year a row, has just had his best month ever and is full of confidence about the real estate market this year. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/34-new-real-estate-news-website-live-may-8/ Taranaki Harcourts has been partly involved in setting up an industry first! The first ever one stop website for property/real estate news. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/33-taranaki-real-estate-awards/ Taranaki Harcourts Awards were held Saturday night with the following acheiving outstanding success. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/32-record-month-in-april/ Both our Inglewood and our Bell Block offices recorded their best trading months ever! http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/31-the-big-harcourts-soup-giveaway-/ 18,130 WAYS TO SHOW WE CARE. Harcourts is not a property business - it is a people business. Taranaki people is what makes this province the best place to live in the world and at HARCOURTS we wanted to help those people that need a little help this coming winter. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/30-taranaki-harcourts-now-on-twitter-/ Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. Updates are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/29-interest-rates-to-fix-or-float--don-t-panic-/ If you have got a mortgage you may well have got a call from your bank/mortgage broker recently with a tip-off that long term interest rates are on the way up so get in for the quick fix. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/28-mortgage-express-broker-wins-national-award/ Taranaki-based mortgage broker Kerry Kelly of Mortgage Express, which is 90% owned by Harcourts International, has won the prestigious Sovereign Mortgage Adviser of the Year award. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/27-kerry-kelly--mortgage-express-named-broker-of-the-year-/ Kerry Kelly, Mortgage Express named Broker of the Year. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/26-a-first-for-taranaki-real-estate/ In an effort to ensure Harcourts provides their clients, both buying and selling, with the very finest of services, today they launched their self produced VIRTUAL TOURS. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/25-new-plymouth---better-than-new-zealand/ The latest statistics from Quotable Value show that the National Housing Slump has not effected New Plymouth as much. In fact New Plymouth faired better than any other city in New Zealand http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/24-property-sales-likely-to-pick-up-in-2009/ A 50% increase in property sales is likely to be seen in the next few years as the market climbs out from the lowest relative point of the past two decades. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/23-the-property-market-in-2008/ Note New Plymouth real estate prices did not correct as harshly as most other markets in NZ. Strong facts presented here confirming what we said throughout last year - Taranaki weathered the storm in 2008 http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/22-results-in-2008--stunning-/ Harcourts Taranaki have just completed their analysis of their complete business in 2009. KEY RESULTS HERE! http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/21-2009-growth-plans---create-new-position/ Due to our 2008 success and 2009 growth plans we have created an exciting new position within our GROUP. HARCOURTS. Taranaki's #1 Real Estate Company http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/20-charity-auction---for-rescue-helicopter/ The Double Agents (Mark Noble- Campbell, Belinda Clark and Aimee Yee) as part of their 2008 Client Function raised over $1500 last night for the Rescue Taranaki Community Helicopter. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/19-taranaki-real-estate-performing-well-in-comparison/ Please find as follows the latest report from the HARCOURTS GROUP on the sales actvivity throughout New Zealand http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/18-harcourts-taranaki-auction-success--1/ If you want to sell your home - you need to auction it. Not just auction though - Auction it with Harcourts Taranaki. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/17-home-sells-under-capital-value-in-mortgagee-sale-/ A New Plymouth property that went under the hammer at a mortgagee auction this week sold for $80,000 less than its capital value .... http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/15-sales-not-out-of-control--says-agent-----/ FOUR North Taranaki properties are headed for a mortgagee auction. The properties, three in New Plymouth and one in Waitara are being auctioned by Taranaki Harcourts ....... http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/14-coastal-walkway-diamond-on-the-market/ Seldom does such an opportunity come available..... http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/13-taranaki-s-first--1-reserve-auction/ Of interest to the Waitara Community / Taranaki Community.... http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/12-harcourts-gets-into-the-spirit-with--blackout--campaign/ To celebrate the fact that New Plymouth is hosting its first ever All Blacks test match .... http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/11-harcourts-launches-new-credit-card/ Harcourts has launched a unique new credit card issued by ASB that offers an industry-leading.... http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/1-harcourts-defies-gloom-in-market/ While there is much doom and gloom in the housing market these days, New Plymouth-based Harcourts real estate continues to grow. The firm has bought a Hobson St property to house its property management division and mortgage brokers! http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/6-accolade-for-new-plymouth-based-commercial-agent/ New Plymouth based real estate professional Bruce Woodhead has been named as the ... http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/7-harcourts-is-best-known--most-preferred-real-estate-brand/ According to independent, nationwide research released yesterday Harcourts is the real estate agency brand best known and most preferred by New Zealand homeowners. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/8-rising-star-no-1-in-harcourts--wellington-region/ Rising New Zealand real estate industry star Glenn Green was today named the Number One Sales Consultant in Harcourts Wellington region for the 2007/08 financial year, achieving the region's top honour for the second year in a row. http://www.taranakiharcourts.co.nz/information/harcourts-news/10-harcourts-opens-new-office-in-growing-taranaki-town/ Three Harcourts business owners and a top Taranaki sales consultant have teamed up to open a new Harcourts office in the increasingly popular Taranaki town of Inglewood.