Selling your home for the best price
Selling your home in New Zealand is a legally binding process from signing an agency agreement with a real estate company to a sale and purchase agreement with a buyer and subsequent settlement of the sale.
You will be heavily reliant on your real estate agent's integrity, knowledge, competency and advice, requiring you to make decisions, often under time pressure. Three important examples of this include:
1. Signatures required for clauses added, amendments or deletions made to agency listing agreements, marketing agreements, methods of sale and sale and purchase agreements.
2. Confirming deadlines and meeting conditions of sale written into the sale and purchase agreement within the agreed period of time.
3. Understanding of property documents like Titles, LIMS (Land Information Memorandum) and PIMS (Property Information Memorandum) that need to be sought and interpreted, along with compliance documents completed.
Real estate agents help buyers to purchase properties
This includes liaising with your lawyer and your buyer's lawyer along with mortgage brokers, banks, insurance companies, councils, body corporates and Trustees. It may be uncomplicated at your end but not so on the buyer side.
Engaging a suitable real estate agent who is strong on interpreting legal descriptions and has knowledge of the Real Estate Agents Act 2008 is imperative - for both buyers and sellers. This will largely be dependent on the real estate agency they work for and the standards of agent recruitment they have.
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We can help you make informed decisions - impartially
Selling your home can be life changing, and often unexpectedly complex. Attracting a premium price when selling your home will rely on:
1. The preparation you do on the interior and exterior of your property.
2. Understanding what the whole process entails and the decisions you will need to be properly informed on.
2. Objectively choosing the most qualified, licensed real estate agent (and agency) to conduct the sale of your property - head over heart.
3. The accuracy of your free real estate appraisal and your careful scrutiny of it.
4. Knowing how to sell a house quickly without compromising your sale price. Often the highest sale price is achieved in the first four weeks.
We've helped thousands of Kiwis to prepare for and navigate the process of selling their properties since 2009 and know that our advice will help you to achieve an optimum result, price-wise and time-wise.
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- Property Advisor of the Year | Property Institute of NZ
- Best Independent Real Estate Advisors 2022 | BUILD 2022 Real Estate & Property Awards
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Page updated April 12, 2025 by Trish Willis | Member of Property Institute of NZ (IPAC)
