How well do you know Auckland or Wellington?

GPSmyCity.com has recently developed tour guide Iphone applications for the cities of
Wellington and Auckland and would like to sponsor a quiz contest on one of them.

Would you consider featuring this on your blog. The readers who correctly answers most of the questions, will win three free city walk iPhone applications developed byGPSmyCity.com.

To enter complete either of these quizzes:

Here for Auckland

Here for Wellington

Good luck.

 

Commercial Real Estate Lease Agreements

If you are after copies of the widely used Auckland District Law Society and/or CCH Lease agreements you can purchase them online at VirtualRealty.

Natural Disaster Planning for Commercial Tenants

This latest article from Parallel Directions is extremely timely considering all the flood damage Australia is experiencing and also the on-going aftershocks in Christchurch.

The impacts of natural disasters on people around the world and close to home have been top of mind for us all in the past few months.

It brought home to me how vulnerable we are wherever we live and work.

I had a personal experience working with relocating businesses affected by the Christchurch earthquake, and it gave me a firsthand experience of how devastating this sort of disaster can be. And of course those impacts are continuing with the ongoing aftershocks.

Read the full article at: http://www.officeblog.co.nz/natural-disaster-planning-for-commercial-tenants

Want double the exposure for half the work?

We have just added a new Client Space Fasctsheet under User Guides.

ClientSpace is a unique feature to Findspace whereby we push your listings back to your website in a professional and real-time format.  This means all your listings appear on your website and Findspace concurrently from one source.

All maintenance is carried out on Findspace and instantly appears on your website, all for FREE.

Function Space now added to Findspace

We have recently added a new category to Findspace called Function Space.  This can be used by anyone who has available function/conference/entertainment space available.

Foreign buyers snap up real estate in Australia

European and Asian investors are buying up residential and commercial property in Australia as high interest rates are putting off national buyers, it is claimed.

In Sydney in particular a surge of overseas buyers is driving demand in the CBD, North Shore and Eastern Suburbs, according to the Real Estate Buyers Association of Australia.

The most recent figures from the Federal Government’s Foreign Investment Review Board, collected during the worst of the global financial crisis in 2008/09, reveal foreigners picked up $23.4 billion in Australian real estate assets including 3,639 new and existing homes, and 988 parcels of land.

‘We see a lot of interest from Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo and the UK. They know the market is depressed and they are making huge capital gains and are reinvesting into the market,’ said byron Rose, president of the Real Estate Buyers Association of Australia.

Red the full article here > http://www.propertywire.com/news/australasia/foreign-buyers-in-oz-201011234708.html

DNZ sells two more properties

DNZ Property Fund has sold another two of its properties for $20.7 million, with the proceeds of the sale used to pay off bank debt.

The Jackson Street property in Petone was sold for $13.6 million, and a vacant property on Bush Road in Albany sold for $7.1 million, following unsolicited offers on both, the company said in a statement today. The settlement dates are Feb 25 and July 31 respectively, both of which are unconditional.

This is the second time in just over two months that the company has sold properties to pay off bank loans, having disposed of two vacant industrial sites near the Auckland International Airport for $2.9 million in August.

Read the full article here: http://www.sharechat.co.nz/article/461a0962/dnz-sells-two-more-properties.html

 

Big chunk of Queen Street up for Sale

Two big Queen St office properties opposite the Town Hall and Aotea Square are up for sale as part of Bayleys latest Total Property portfolio.

One is a big freehold block of CBD land at 360 Queen St, which occupies almost an entire city block with frontage also on to Wakefield St and Airedale St. The 3292sq m site contains two mid-level office buildings, a car parking site and the Methodist Church’s Aotea Chapel, which are on five individual titles.

The other offering is one property up the road at 396 Queen St, on the corner with Mayoral Drive, and has a 9552sq m, 20-level office tower on a 1470sq m site.

Read the full article here: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/colin-taylor/news/article.cfm?a_id=165&objectid=10674121

 

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