Auckland listings end lacklustre 2019 at four-year low

Wed, 08 Jan 2020

Property listings were at a four-year low at the end of 2019 in what realtor Barfoot & Thompson described as a stable year with fewer sales and flat prices.The city’s biggest realtor said it had 3,191 properties on its books at the end of December, down from 3,703 a month earlier and 4,194 at the end of 2018. That was the lowest number of listings at the end of any month for more than four years, managing director Peter Thompson said.There were 682 new listings in December, more than the 555 new listings in the same month a year earlier. Th...

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