It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat". Theodore Roosevelt, 1910

What a week – An All Black win and surely a win to Team New Zealand. There’s much to be proud of and even more to look forward to with the return of the America’s Cup to the Viaduct – exciting times !! And yet another reason to have a piece of property in Auckland.

The Reserve Bank governor Graeme Wheeler has kept the official cash rate at 2.5% today, although he suggests it may rise sometime next year. In the meantime we continue to see the under supply of homes, relative to buyer numbers, producing excellent results, particularly at Auction

The traditional Spring listings season has yet to translate into the volumes we have seen in previous years. As a consequence, those homes currently for sale are receiving high interest resulting in one of the lowest lead times to sale for some years. On the other side of the ledger, buyer demand continues unabated – these two scenarios together are forcing sale prices onwards in the vendor’s favour.