This Weekend’s Open Homes – Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th February 2012
Click this link to see my Open Homes times this weekend

Click this link to see my Open Homes times this weekend
Around about this time each month we receive a summarised list of all the properties sold unconditionally (but not yet settled) by every real estate company in the area over the preceding month. It is compiled and distributed by the REINZ (Real Estate Institute of NZ). This list is a valuable tool for us, because it gives us the sales data much quicker than might be the case if we had waited for settlement to occur. When you, as a member of the public, subscribe to any number of websites that provide sales data, such data will always be of settled sales, and so will always be more dated.
While parts of the northern hemisphere shiver, we are enjoying gorgeous summer weather here. Yesterday I spoke with a friend who had flown back to Nelson from Wellington mid-afternoon, and he was amazed how the climate between our two cities could be so dramatically different over such a short distance. Wellington had been cold, breezy and gloomy – he landed here and enjoyed no wind and lovely sunshine.
Again a busy week (probably for you too) so I’ll keep this brief – Since the New Year began we have had 8 properties sold or under contract, and lately we seem to have spent a lot of time at Monaco. We have sold 12A and 11 Martin Street unconditionally, have a 3rd one in Martin Street under conditional contract due to confirm next week, and have just listed a fourth property in Point Road with an interesting twist -it has two houses on the one quarter acre section.
Apologies to those of you last week who had trouble viewing the photos in this newsletter – we hope to have rectified it this week.We ran 10 open homes over the last weekend and it was great to see so many of you out in force looking for your next home. That level of interest is reflected in our figures so far this month, with $3.8 m of our listings sold or under contract.
Welcome to the first of these emails for the New Year. I trust you had a safe and enjoyable festive season. We now have photos and information booklets for the two listings I referred to last time and they are now on the internet. They are – 220A Collingwood Street, Nelson, which has its first open home this Sunday. A very smart, semi-detached home set well away from the road and nice and central to schools and town. RV is $480,000 31 View Mount, Maitlands. A modern home built with great attention to detail, in a sheltered and elevated