Auckland house sales volumes drop in August as loan restrictions start to bite, Barfoot says

Auckland house sales volumes drop in August as loan restrictions start to bite, Barfoot says
Paul McBeth
By Paul McBeth Sept. 5 (BusinessDesk) - The number of house sales in Auckland dropped by more than a quarter in August from a year earlier with stricter mortgage lending practices compressing activity, Barfoot & Thompson says.  Sales fell 3 percent to 1,003 in August compared to July, and were down 26 percent from the same month a year earlier, the city's biggest realtor said in a statement. Still, the median sale price increased 1.2 percent to $850,000 from a month prior and was 13 percent higher than a year earlier.  "The continued r...