PHOTO: KERRY MARINKOVICH/STUFF – One Tree Point is nice – but is it 90 minutes from Auckland?
Time flies when you’re having fun… or when you’re a real estate agent working out how far a house is from a city centre.
It’s common for real estate advertising to feature an estimate of how far a property is from the nearest shopping centre, or the closest CBD. But in some cases, those travel times seem a little optimistic.
A survey of real estate advertising around the country found agents’ time estimates were frequently different from reality, sometimes by up to half an hour.
In one case, a property advertised for sale at One Tree Point, near Whangarei, was billed as being 90 minutes from Auckland. The journey from central Auckland is 141km so you would have to be travelling 100 km/h almost all the way there to achieve that time.
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