A broad and deep involvement with community groups and charities across a range of sectors is crucial to developing and maintaining an ethical and morally rewarding approach to business, according to Ponsonby’s leading real estate agent.
Further showcasing a commitment to the city’s youth, Blair Haddow earlier this year also pledged to underwriting a scholarship programme at Auckland University of Technology’s Bachelor of Business studies faculty. The successful scholarship recipient was hard-working student Joey Ramos who has a bright future in the business sector – already having been offered internships at accounting and financial services firms Ernst & Young, and Deloitte.
Top performing Auckland inner-west real estate salesperson Blair Haddow of Bayleys Ponsonby says that giving back to many sectors of the greater community is an important part of sustaining his profile in the locales of Ponsonby, Herne Bay, Grey Lynn, Westmere, St Marys Bay and Freemans Bay.
Blair’s various commitments to community groups and charities have recently seen him and a good friend jointly contribute $16,000 to the child welfare support charity Cure Kids, along with donating funds to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and supporting the Kings Trust Aotearoa which enables young Kiwis to undertake education and employment programmes designed to get them into the workplace.
Further showcasing a commitment to the city’s youth, Blair Haddow earlier this year also pledged to underwriting a scholarship programme at Auckland University of Technology’s Bachelor of Business studies faculty. The successful scholarship recipient was hard-working student Joey Ramos who has a bright future in the business sector – already having been offered internships at accounting and financial services firms Ernst & Young, and Deloitte.
Bayleys Ponsonby has also been a long-standing sponsor of the Inner-City Schools Arts Exhibition programme which sees the colourful and imaginative creations of hundreds of the area’s youngsters displayed at public venues annually.
From a commercial perspective, Blair spends much of his spare time – and his disposable income – in the Ponsonby, Herne Bay, Grey Lynn, Westmere, St Marys Bay and Freemans Bay areas where he is a regular customer at numerous restaurants and bars in the inner-west Auckland neighbourhoods.
Much of Blair’s networking is done ‘after hours’ at these venues where he always bumps into past customers and clients, both vendors and buyers, who are always seeking his commentary on what is happening in the real estate markets.
“I’m finding at the moment, as it has been for much of this year, that high-end high-value homes are continuing to sell well at good pricing levels. So well in fact, that I simply don’t have enough of these properties on my listing portfolio to meet the demand I have from my buyer database,” confides Blair.
“That’s simply because potential vendors are holding off bringing their homes to market for sale. It’s a similar scenario in the mid price range of between $1.6million - $2.5 million, the number of listings to choose from right now are few and far between.”
Blair Haddow and his hard-working sales associate Keenin Whitcher, who is quickly learning the ropes about how to become a successful real estate agent under Blair’s mentorship, have a quartet of beautiful homes for sale at present, including:
· 20 Dedwood Terrace in St Marys Bay – a three-storey/six-bedroom home and income residence with four-bedrooms on the upper floors, and a stylish two-bedroom apartment on the ground floor, while featuring exceptional balcony views over the inner harbour and harbour bridge beyond the immaculately manicured back lawn and boxed gardens.
· 20 Wharf Road in Ponsonby – a fully renovated, four bedroom/two-bathroom open-plan villa with picture-perfect newly landscaped back lawn and off-street car parking.
· 4 Masefield Avenue in Herne Bay – a two-storey, executive, sleek lined three-bedroom/two-bathroom residence with outdoor decking on both levels, and garaging.
· 68 Old Mill Road in Westmere – a comfortable three-bedroom family home with easy-care back lawn and two-car garaging.
To ensure the pipeline of new listings continues well into winter, Blair and Keenin are spending long hours during the day talking to Blair’s database of buyers and potential sellers across Ponsonby, Herne Bay, Grey Lynn, Westmere, St Marys Bay and Freemans Bay – checking in with where they now are in their ‘cycle’, and garnering ‘grass roots’ feedback on where Kiwis are seeing the inner-west Auckland property market in conjunction with the wider economy. (Blair Haddow) χPN
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Published: May 2024