Two of New Zealand’s leading residential architects have sold their Auckland central city-fringe homes within a few weeks of each other – both through the same real estate agent, and both receiving pre-auction offers.
Eva Nash and Kate Rogan – principals of chic Grey Lynn architectural consultancy Rogan Nash – both listed and sold their homes in rapid succession in May through Blair Haddow of Bayleys Ponsonby.
First up, Eva Nash placed her Wellpark Avenue family home of four years on the market for sale. After just one open home, agent Blair Haddow presented an offer, and the planned auction date was brought forward. The home duly sold under the hammer for $3.225million – nearly $160,000 more than the pre-auction offer.
Inspired by the ‘heat’ within the Auckland city-fringe residential property market and the sensational job Blair Haddow did managing the sales and marketing process, business partner Kate Rogan then also placed her Great North Road, Grey Lynn, family home on the market for sale with Bayleys Ponsonby.
Similarly, a pre-auction offer was presented after just one open home, and the planned auction duly brought forward. As with Eva’s home, Kate’s stylish two-storey four-year-old home sold under the hammer for $2.52million – coincidentally also for nearly $160,000 more than the pre-auction offer.
“The expedient nature in which both Eva and Kate’s homes sold reflects that many people wanting a residence in the Ponsonby, Herne Bay, and Grey Lynn locales have an eye for style, and are ready to pay for that,” said Blair Haddow.
“The couple who bought Eva’s home for example, had been looking for their perfect home for almost four years, and in all of that time had only seen two homes which they made offers on.”
Blair Haddow said the duo of Rogan Nash sales also showcased how auctions achieved the best sales outcomes for vendors – with both properties achieving higher values under the hammer than the benchmark pre-auction offers.
At the other end of the buyer spectrum though, Blair Haddow also last month sold a three-bedroom/one-bathroom ‘do-up’ property at 20 Murdoch Road in Grey Lynn for $1.8 million to a syndicate of three young first home buyers. The address – previously a rental property for the past 20-years - was also sold at auction.
The busy period of May residential property sales across Ponsonby, Herne Bay and Grey Lynn has come at a time when Blair Haddow’s professional profile in the business and property media has been reaching even higher levels than usual – with a feature in the New Zealand Herald’s One Roof property supplement, and a similar write-up in Eye magazine on successful Auckland real estate agents.
Blair was also prestigiously named in Bayleys’ Top Five Percent of salespeople within the company across New Zealand for the 2020/2021 financial year. It is the eleventh consecutive year Blair Haddow has achieved the much sought-after professional accolade. So far this calendar year, Blair has concluded 15 residential sales in the Ponsonby, Herne Bay, Grey Lynn triangle.
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