{"id":649425,"date":"2026-11-03T04:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T04:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/649425\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T04:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T04:34:15","slug":"aucklands-largest-real-estate-agency-had-fewer-sales-in-october-but-selling-prices-were-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/649425\/","title":{"rendered":"Auckland&#8217;s largest real estate agency had fewer sales in October but selling prices were up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were mixed signals in the sales results of Auckland&#8217;s largest real estate agency in October, with selling prices up but sales volumes down.<\/p>\n<p>Barfoot &amp; Thompson sold 696 residential properties in October, down from 768 in September (-9.4%) and down by -25.2% compared to the 930 properties sold in October last year.<\/p>\n<p>October&#8217;s sales were also the lowest for the month of October since 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Selling prices on other hand, were slightly improved.<\/p>\n<p>Barfoot&#8217;s average residential selling price $1,093,379 in October, up by $18,514 (+1.7%) compared to September and up by $14,349 (+1.3%) compared to October last year.<\/p>\n<p>The agency&#8217;s median selling price was $967,500 in October, up by $27,500 (+2.9%) compared to September and up by $17,500 (+1.8%) compared to October last year.<\/p>\n<p>The picture on new listings was also mixed, with the agency receiving 1845 new residential listings in October, up by +4.3% compared to September and up by +14.9% compared to October last year.<\/p>\n<p>The total stock of residential properties for sale on Barfoot&#8217;s books remains extremely elevated at 6508 at the end of October, which was up +4.9% compared to September and up +8.0% compared to October last year.<\/p>\n<p>The number of homes Barfoot&#8217;s has for sale at the end of each month has almost doubled since 2015 and was at its highest level in 18 years at the end of October.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Prices had a mini rally in October in spite of the level of property sales being at its highest for nearly two decades,&#8221; Barfoot &amp; Thompson Managing Director Peter Thompson said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These modest price gains were made in the face of sales for the month of 696, one of the lower number of sales in a month this year,&#8221; Thompson said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Buyers are currently presented with an exceptionally high level of choice across all price segments,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Select chart tabs<\/p>\n<p>                          average price growth % year on year<br \/>\n                             average price<br \/>\n                             number sold<br \/>\n                             new listings<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.interest.co.nz\/supporters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height:147px;width:760px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/what-do-you-think-11.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were mixed signals in the sales results of Auckland&#8217;s largest real estate agency in October, with selling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[138,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-649425","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\/649425","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=649425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}