Manager's Comments 24-11-14

The count down to Christmas begins. A month to go till Christmas Eve, when the world stops for a well earned breather, not to recommence the business of house buying until about Monday 13^th January 2015. In the interim we have Christmas and New Year, very busy family and social time. Buyers are thinking about other things. This year we should be busy with buyers until Monday 21^st or maybe the 22^nd of December. After that, not much. On the up side for sellers is the last Harcourts BluePrint of the year published 20 December. This will be a bumper issue and will have an extended shelf life. The next publication is not until 10 January, 3 weeks later. We do accommodate a number of expats in our city over Christmas and we are now becoming a ‘destination’, and there will be many out of town visitors. They will be interested in property and will browse the available advertising. That is, our last BluePrint. Talk to your agent about extending your profile in the last issue. Doubling the size of your presence in the BluePrint will be a good investment with 3 times the exposure before another publication is out.

John Christiansen