PHOTO: TARANAKI-DAILY-NEWS Hawera realtor Selwyn Metcalfe says there is strong demand for housing but supply continues to be an issue.
If you’d asked real estate agents Jane and Carey Simonson a month ago how Taranaki’s housing market would fare post-lockdown, they’d have predicted high-end sales suffering.
But those predictions would have been wrong. Within the first week out of lockdown the Ray White agents had a two million-dollar New Plymouth properties under contract.
One of the homes, on Heta Rd, was listed prior to lockdown but didn’t go live with photographs until level 3 began.
An offer on the executive family home was made before its first open home on Sunday, in alert level 2, which drew a line out the door.
The other property, on Whiteley St, which featured port views, went under contract on Wednesday after being on the market for around five months.
“We thought if people were facing redundancies and reduced hours…we just weren’t sure what was going to happen to this end,” Jane said.
“But we’ve just been so busy. Covid hasn’t stopped the market.”
At the beginning of lockdown there was an air of uncertainty in how the real estate market would pull up.
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