WHY SELL NOW?
DANIEL COULSON CHIEF EXECUTIVE
RAY WHITE NEW ZEALAND
SELLING THROUGH UNCERTAINTY
For the better part of two years, New Zealand’ s residential property market has existed in a strange kind of limbo – never weak enough to unravel, nor confident enough to boom.
Every few months, the market appears ready to break decisively in one direction, says Daniel Coulson, Ray White New Zealand’ s Chief Executive.
Interest rates stabilise, inflation softens, confidence briefly returns, and transaction activity begins to rebuild – before another external shock interrupts the narrative. Oil prices surge, conflict escalates, and central bank expectations shift again. The recovery is pushed out again.
What has emerged instead is not a dramatic downturn, but a market learning to operate without certainty.
The relationship between inventory levels and price growth suggests today’ s market is shaped less by distress than by deliberate decision-making and balanced conditions.
Increasingly, buyers and sellers appear less interested in waiting for perfect conditions and more willing to adapt to the reality that perfect conditions rarely exist.
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