Case Studies

34 McDowell Crescent, Hillcrest

Negotiation Skills & A Happy Vendor. A popular location and successful staging drew immediate crowds, with queues out the door at the first open home. Having partnered with these clients previously and having a successful sale, we managed a high-intensity campaign that required an "all hands on deck" approach to facilitate huge open home crowds, six building inspections, and technical queries.

We focused on educating and preparing buyers well before auction day, ensuring they were familiar with the process and ready to act. This preparation created a buzzing auction room, where high-level negotiation skills secured a premium result for our very happy vendors.

Incredible result under the hammer.

18 Vienna Place, Birkenhead

We sold the property just 5 days after the first open home, achieving a result that exceeded the vendor’s expectations by a considerable margin. The owner had made it clear from the start that he wanted a quick, no-fuss sale, and we delivered exactly that. There was no time to have a drawn-out Auction.

With two open homes and 38 groups through, we generated strong interest from the outset. Multiple offers are always our goal, driving up the final price & achieving the very best offer from motivated buyers.

Negotiation is one of our 6 key skills. Final result: The family secured another investment opportunity. Job done.

10 Alton Avenue, Hillcrest

Working closely with the investor-owner stepping through a difficult tenanted lease and providing assistance with staging and grounds presentation.

Auction was the perfect platform to test family targeted buyers and developers in a competitive buying environment. Popular location. Coaching of bidders enabled a fun and engaging auction in our auction suites with Sam Steele, leas auctioneer for Ray White New Zealand.

Incredible result under the hammer. Outstanding recommendations from vendor and purchaser.

2/234 Sunset Road, Windsor Park

Legal/Technical knowledge & Negotiation skills

A much loved large family home since new with 5-6 bedrooms backing on to a quiet reserve.

With a defective cross-lease title, we provided a detailed property file for permitted history and thoroughly researched the property details, making sure our team had sound knowledge on the property which helped create the platform for buyers to act quickly.

Absentee owners entrusted our expertise, technical knowledge and auction process to transparently sell this property well over the reserve price.

1C/17 Scanlan Street, GREY LYNN -                                                                      

Modern & Metro’ Living – Spacious 64m2 Renovated Apartment

After trying to sell privately, our clients came to us with a need to sell their apartment quickly and for the right price, as they already purchased another property on the North Shore. Up to the challenge we delivered plus more.

4-11 Waratah Street, BIRKENHEAD -                                                                          

Your Ticket To Birkenhead!  Lazy Townhouse Living

H & J came to us because they knew that we had been successfully selling real estate in the Birkenhead area for over 50 years. 

WE WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND LOCHORES for the selling of our home as we have just been amazed at their excellent service.  Our friends guided us to them and also came with us just to enquire re selling and the time we spent with them, we left signed up.  We had so much confidence in Chris Gemmell with his friendliness, honesty, guidance and presentation.  The speed of marketing our home was beyond our imagination and the photos and write up blew us away! The whole team couldn't do enough for us and kept in touch at every opportunity.  When we had a buyer, the buyers had to sell there home and Chris was on the ball again.  The two homes were sold and we were so delighted and became a real friend of Chris.  Congratulations to the whole team.  We couldn't be happier with their service.  Thank you so much. 

J & H Alexander.

2 James Evans Drive, NORTHCOTE

Executive Home - Picture Postcard Views

Living out of Auckland, Richard and Wendy as absentee owners came to myself as repeat clients. Over a period of several months they knew that we would help coordinate to professionally prepare and present the property in its best possible light ready for sale. WHAT A RESULT!

We initially came into contact with Chris when we bought our first property 10 years ago. As first time buyers, we were so impressed with his approach that when it came to selling our other property in 2015, we immediately thought of Chris.  His subsequent handling of the sale gave us such confidence that when we eventually put our first property on the market, where we had initially met him, it was with Chris. By this stage we were living in South Island and apart from one face to face meeting, all our dealings were done remotely. Nothing was too much trouble for him; we were grateful for his help and advice, and delighted with both his approach and the result (not to mention the competitive fee structure!).

Richard

5/65 Rangatira Road, Island Bay

Character Townhouse

We would like to thank Chris, his team and Lochore's Ltd for making our dream of selling and buying our dream home come true...

We did not only purchase our home from Lochore's...but also sold our home through Lochore's and we can say that both experiences were, smooth, positive and a pleasant experience.

It was a pleasure to deal with Chris Gemmell, he made us feel at ease at all times, he was professional and had a friendly and warm approach at 'all' times.

Chris took away the politics and formalities of a real estate agent and he became our 'mate' straight away!!.

From day one we were saying jokes and laughing as if we knew Chris from years and years ago...and that's unplayable ...we felt we were dealing with a real friend who 'honestly cared' about us...and our family.

We felt his advise was always honest, professional and objective and we never felt pressured, uncomfortable or rushed to make any decision.

We admire your knowledge Chris, we learned so much about property and investment  from you...you definitely know what you are talking about and that made us 'believe' in you and trust you even more.

Chris you were clear and translucent with your dealings ... also knowledgeable and professional at all times and we thank you for making us 'believe' in you and 'trust' you straight away.

We feel we have made a friend for life and we will always pop in to the office to say hello or to catch up for a coffee.

We love the fact that Lochore's is a family oriented company. Supported by a great team that also follows a team/family philosophy...and that makes them a unique real estate company.

Thank you guys for looking after North Shore families for so many years...and thank you for helping us reach our goals and dreams...Thank you for being our friends in the process.

Zane, Jansyl and Amor