Mortgagee sale – investment opportunity

Apartment 119 at Portside Hotel Gisborne is being offered for sale under mortgagee instructions. The ground floor studio apartment is leased to Portside Hotel and is used by guests on a short stay basis. Located close to the centre of Gisborne City and near Waikanae Beach, Portside Hotel enjoys good patronage. Details of the sale can [...]

Auction Results 21 & 22 March

Six properties were offered for sale by auction this week at LJ Hooker Gisborne. All six were residential representing a cross section of available homes. There was a 50% success rate under the hammer. 18 Ruru Avenue sold  for $265,300 after four bidders sought to own the low maintenance 3 bedroom home in Lytton West. [...]

3 out of 4 auctions sold

It was a good day for sales at LJ Hooker Gisborne when 3 out of 4 residential properties sold under the hammer. 5 Elsdon Best Street, Riverdale was offered for sale under mortgagee instructions. The property drew a positive response during the marketing programme with over 30 buyer inspections. It came down to 3 active [...]

Spirited bidding on Moana Road

58b Moana Road sold on Wednesday for $335,000. Located on the Pacific Highway at Okitu, Wainui Beach Gisborne, the  three bedroom  ”initial home” drew good interest from half a dozen bidders before it sold under the hammer at the on site auction. A local resident purchased the property. “Being offered as a mortgagee sale drew [...]

Another Wainui opportunity – mortgagee sale

Next Wednesday 29 June 2011 will see 58b Moana Road offered for sale under Mortgagee  instructions. The three bedroom “initial home” is located on a rear site on the Pacific Highway at Okitu, Wainui Beach and has alot going for it. Being a relatively low maintenance property and less than 20 years old, it makes for [...]

Mortgagee sales not a sure thing

Just because a property is being sold as a mortgagee sale does not mean that it will sell at a cheap price. Banks (the mortgagee) don’t usually sell a property at any price. They have constraints. Often it has to be in a range of fair market value, albeit at a low level. If the [...]

A sad day today- we are selling 3 properties

Normally I would be excited by the prospect of selling three properties at auction. But that is not the case today. The three investment properties are mortgagee sales, all owned by one client. The young couple who bought them only a few years ago had a dream of securing their financial freedom, a vision of [...]

Have you paid too much?

Imagine this… You just got the phone call from the real estate agent letting you know that your offer on the house you have your heart set on has been accepted. You paid the GV (Government Valuation, or  RV – Rating Valuation). Did you: A      Pay too much? B      Pay a [...]

Mortgagee Auctions Draw Strong Interest

Bargain hunters were able to buy waterfront property for less than half the price paid by the last owners at a mortgagee auction conducted by Hookers in Gisborne yesterday. One apartment in the popular Portside Hotel development went under the hammer for $90,000 and another, fronting the swimming pool and port, went for $104,000. Both [...]

Mortgagee Sales in Gisborne

Despite hard times, there have not been a lot of mortgagee house  sales in Gisborne recently. It looks as though some investors with apartments have been the worst hit, as guarantees on their investments have not been able to be delivered in full. Also of interest is that one lender accounted for 80% of recent [...]