{"id":569687,"date":"2026-08-15T09:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T09:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/569687\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T09:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T09:20:14","slug":"auction-activity-bouncing-along-at-its-winter-lows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/569687\/","title":{"rendered":"Auction activity bouncing along at its winter lows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residential auction activity perked up a bit over the last week, with interest.co.nz monitoring the auctions of 251 properties over the week of 8-14 August.<\/p>\n<p>That was up from 197 the previous week which was a three year low.<\/p>\n<p>The number of properties being auctioned each week has been alternating from just under 200 to about 250, so overall activity appears to be bouncing along on its winter lows.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 251 properties on offer at the latest auctions, 96 were sold under the hammer, giving an overall sales rate of 38%. That&#8217;s the first time it has been under 40% in the last four weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Those figures paint a picture of a market with little momentum behind it, something that is unlikely to change over the last couple of weeks of winter.<\/p>\n<p>Details of all of the individual properties offered at all of the auctions monitored by interest.co.nz, including the selling prices of those that sold, are available on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interest.co.nz\/property\/residential-auction-results\" rel=\" noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Residential Auction Results page.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/shuntable15.png\" class=\"drupal-media\" style=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.interest.co.nz\/supporters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757538248_305_what-do-you-think-21.jpg\" style=\"width: 760px; height: 147px;\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residential auction activity perked up a bit over the last week, with interest.co.nz monitoring the auctions of 251&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[138,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-569687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}