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Mid Canty houses take $25,000 hit BY MYLES HUME
to $275,000 of the 37 houses sold. That’s a $25,000 drop from July’s figures which saw the median house price at $300,000 with 54 homes sold. Nationally, the median house price rose $5000 over the month to $390,000, which is $10,000 below the record set in March this year. Mid Canterbury homes
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Mid Canterbury experienced a double drop last month as the median house price fell sharply along with the number of house sales compared with July. The Real Estate Institute of New Zealand released its latest figures for August yesterday, with the median house price in Mid Canterbury dropping
continue to be almost $100,000 below the median house price in Christchurch which saw the average price drop just 3 per cent from July, but with 7.4 per cent more homes sold. But Auckland remains the most expensive place to live with August’s figures showing the average home to cost $563,000, up 13 per cent from the same time last year.
The North Shore remained the most expensive place to live, with the cost of an average home being $707,000. It is still cheaper to buy a house in Timaru, with the average August price being $255,000, bolstering sales in the district with 16 more homes sold compared with Mid Canterbury. Canterbury/Westland expe-
rienced a $20,000 rise in the median house price compared with August 2012, and only a $5000 increase from July. There were 835 homes sold, up a whopping 22 per cent from the same time last year. Canterbury and Auckland accounted for 83.5 per cent of the increase in the median price between August 2012 and August 2013.
Drugs retailer speaks out
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Rakaia retailer Garry Davies is hitting back at his critics over his shop selling synthetic drugs. In an open letter to the Mid Canterbury community Mr Davies defends his decision and defers any anger to the Government’s decision to allow special temporary licences while the drugs are tested. “Your concerns are with the law, not with me because I am doing nothing illegal,” Mr Davies writes on page 11. Mr Davies reiterates that the synthetic drugs have nothing in common with cannabis. The Guardian last week reported that some locals in Rakaia refused to be named fearing retaliation. The perceived threat referred to some of the shop’s clientele, not Mr Davies.
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