The greater Ponsonby market has perhaps surprised us on the upside over the last month with higher than expected buyer turnout at open homes, multiple bidders at many auctions and quality properties selling well under the hammer or not long afterward.
We all need to remind ourselves that the COVID-19 pandemic has not entirely gone away.
How quickly Ponsonby has bounced back from the Covid-19 lock-down I must admit that as we - as a community and nation - worked our way down the Covid-19 levels from four to three to two to one, I thought our re-emergence from enforced social hibernation would be gradual and somewhat timid. Particularly in my field of expertise – being real estate.
The Leys Institute Library and Gymnasium have now been mothballed for six months and are starting to look sad and neglected.
Grey Lynn & Around is the new trade name for the Grey Lynn Business Association, contributing to our local hood through the support of business and community groups.
Our rates, directed by Auckland Council, are a major component of our local economy.
The recent pandemic lockdown gave us time to ruminate about our future, and what the ‘new normal’ might, or should, look like.
In 1907 church elder and former Minister of Parliament Thomas Peacock offered £400 towards the cost of a new pipe organ for St Stephen’s Presbyterian Church in Ponsonby.
Ruapehu is an easy four hour drive from Auckland and offers a choice of two ski fields; Whakapapa and Turoa.
For those of us who live in Auckland the landscape and social scene in Queenstown and Wanaka is really something quite different.
Coming to a Ponsonby Central near you, the all-new Brewers Room is a lot more than a place for a drink and a chat.
Here’s an object lesson in how to do it right.