In less time than it takes to produce and publish an edition of Ponsonby News from one month to the next, leading Ponsonby/Herne Bay/St Mary’s Bay/Grey Lynn residential real estate salesperson Blair Haddow has listed, marketed, and sold a luxury home in locale.
Since publishing the February issue of the Ponsonby News magazine, the Bayleys Ponsonby salesman was approached by the owner of 40 Pompallier Terrace – a sleek four-bedroom/two bathroom fully modernised bungalow with chic open plan living and outdoor entertaining overlooking the easy-care back garden with in-ground heated swimming pool – and asked if he would take on the assignment of selling the Central Ponsonby family home.
Realising that residences of such elegance were highly sought-after by his expansive database of pre-qualified buyers, Blair took up the sales challenge knowing he had all the tools and experience required to ‘get the job done’ for his client.
Within just five days of listing up the luxury residence for sale, then promoting the white picket fenced opportunity online and through to his exclusive buyer database, Blair had received multiple offers.
After going into a multi-offer programme, the chic Pompallier Terrace home sold for close to $4million. The impeccably designed home’s vendor chose Blair and Bayleys Ponsonby to sell the dwelling after they were personally recommended by one of Blair’s previous vendors who was super impressed by Blair’s professionalism throughout their sales process.
Blair also had four properties across the western city fringe suburbs coming up for auction as this edition of Ponsonby News was going to press. Details on those auction results will be featured in next month’s edition of the magazine – so diary it in for an update of the sales at 55 Summer Street in Ponsonby, 60 Sussex Street in Grey Lynn, 79E Kelmarna Avenue in Ponsonby, and 53 Rose Road in Grey Lynn.
Fully expecting that the four homes will sell under the auctioneer’s hammer, or through negotiations immediately afterwards, Blair Haddow said he was now ready to take on more listings to fill the selection void which would emanate.
“There’s a lot more confidence and positivity around the residential property market already this year than there was at this time last year. Buyers and sellers have taken on board the current economic conditions and are now accustomed to where values are sitting,” he said.
“I’m noticing from our website tracking stats that a lot of ‘hits’ are tracking between all of the properties I’m selling – particularly in the $3.5million - $5.5million brackets. That shows me that buyers are not only looking to benchmark pricing levels, but are also assessing what stock is out there in the market around Ponsonby, Herne Bay, St Mary’s Bay and Grey Lynn.”
Blair also noted that in line with the new-found positivity in the market, the number of people coming to open home viewings since the end of January had also reached near peak levels – even in spite of the two adverse weather events which impacted on the city. One of Blair’s open home viewings alone in the lead up to Cyclone Gabrielle attracted 22 groups.
“There is definite buyer demand for homes across the Ponsonby, Herne Bay, St Mary’s Bay, Grey Lynn areas above the $3million price band. Obviously as a result of what we’ve seen in Auckland twice now over the past month, demand will be higher for homes located well away from valley troughs, beside creeks, or well back from cliff tops,” he said.
“I’m expecting interest in homes for sale which have shown structural and landscaping resilience to the two recent weather events will be considerably higher in the future now that buyers are aware of the living security and peace of mind they offer,” Blair added. (BLAIR HADDOW)
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