BUYING AT AUCTION OR DEADLINE SALE Selling property by auction or deadline sale has become almost the norm in post-Covid-19 Canterbury. What we are hearing from agents is that there are too few listings and too many qualified buyers contesting those listings that...
There is a common misconception that conveyancing is ‘easy’ and that you should be able to get your house purchase done ‘on the cheap’ by anyone claiming to be competent in this field. In this post, we will try to bust a few of those myths and...
If you are thinking of buying at auction then there are a few basic things which you need to be aware of. For starters, if you are a first homebuyer looking to avail yourself of funding from either or both of the Home Start grant or your KiwiSaver first home...
THE VENDOR DIDN’T CLEAN THE HOUSE So you bought a house and the vendor didn’t leave it clean and tidy. It’s a story we hear all too often. A vendor doesn’t bother to clean the house properly and sometimes, not at all. Surely there’s a legal obligation to leave a home...
SELLING AT AUCTION Selling property at auction has become almost the norm these days. From a vendor point of view it is often a clever ploy because if there is anything at all dodgy about a property it forces the buyer to do their due diligence and maybe...