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Old Feb 16th 2008, 6:45 am
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We have just bought our house in the Welcome Bay area of Tauranga. One of the least stressful house buying experiences ever! Why? Because our solicitor was fantastic! The estate agents was great and so was the mortgage advisor at Westpac.
We had lots of obsticles, like no work permit, only £ which needed converting as the rate was dropping by the day, but these three people worked together and sorted it all out in two weeks!
Firstly the solicitor was Lynn Cocker at Welcome Bay Law fees $850-$1100, lovely lady, the estate agent Karen Collins at First National Welcome Bay
And Mike Dyer At Westpac n Devonport Road.
Give them a try, i promise you will not regret it. Tell them Rebecca and Colin said hi.
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It is pleasurable buying here. We found this too, no messing about and no idiotic red tape. But selling ah thats a different matter the real estate agents fees are scandalous.
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Glad you had good experience

We had a good buying experience too.
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Old Feb 19th 2008, 9:31 am
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It is pleasurable buying here. We found this too, no messing about and no idiotic red tape. But selling ah thats a different matter the real estate agents fees are scandalous.
hi lizard
can you tell us more about selling a property please, ie what % agents take, min-max time to sell n any other info
thanks, natalie
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Old Feb 23rd 2008, 6:39 am
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hi lizard
can you tell us more about selling a property please, ie what % agents take, min-max time to sell n any other info
thanks, natalie
Hi its around 4% to sell, selling time depends the same has in the Uk if someone wants the house.
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Originally Posted by sunshine n jim
hi lizard
can you tell us more about selling a property please, ie what % agents take, min-max time to sell n any other info
thanks, natalie
Hi Natalie,

You should be able to access lots of info on www.reinz.co.nz

New stats are out every month. PM me if you'd like more info.
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Old Feb 23rd 2008, 12:51 pm
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Hi Natalie,

You should be able to access lots of info on www.reinz.co.nz

New stats are out every month. PM me if you'd like more info.
thank you thats great, i will have a look. can you tell me how to do a pm
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