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http://www.interest.co.nz/property/85420/barfoots-december-sales-94-lower-year-ago-median-price-falls-10000-average-price
Auckland house prices fell for the second month in a row in December, while the number of houses sold slumped 9.4% from December the previous year.
New Barfoot and Thompson data shows the average sale price in the super city was $913,703 last month - down from $933,130 in November. The median price was $840,000 - down from $850,000 in November.
“While prices definitely eased there was certainly no suggestion that current prices are under any great downward pressure and normal sales numbers are being achieved,” Barfoots’ managing director Peter Thompson says.
Meanwhile the number of residential properties sold fell to 721 - a drop from 796 in December 2015. The number of houses sold was the lowest since 2011.
Yet Thompson says: “It was a typical December trading period with sales numbers and new listings in line with those for the previous year, and prices being not far off the record prices of October and November.
“Signs that the rate at which prices were increasing was declining has been there since mid-year, and that decline showed in the prices achieved at year end.
“In December the average price declined by 2% when compared to the average price for the previous three months.
“Year-on-year, the average sales price increased by 8.6% [to $886,816], the lowest for four years. It compares with 13.9% in 2015, 10.3% in 2014, and 11.1% in 2013.
“December’s modest price retreat is similar to that which occurred last December and it took until March for the upward price trend to re-appear," Thompson says.
“New listings, at 776, were the lowest in a month for the whole year, but were the highest in a December for five years.
“At year end we had 3,270 properties on our books. While this number is down on those at the end of October and November, it is the highest number at year end for four years, and more than a third higher than it was at the same time last year.
“Sales of million dollar properties remained strong in December with sales in this price category at 282 representing 39.1 percent of the month’s sales.
“Sales of properties for under $500,000 at 52 represented 7.2% of the month’s sales. Throughout the year, 11.1% of all the properties we sold were for under $500,000.”
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