Welcome to our SOLD Browns Bay Market Report magazine
for July/August 2025
Our magazine contains the latest available information regarding property sales in the local area along with details of market trends, stats and tips.
Aucklanders continue to have an almost insatiable appetite for property market intelligence, so each month we will share details of the trends in your area. This is just part of our commitment to continue delivering you the highest level of service.
We’ve been locals for decades so we know the area well. Our goal is to apply this knowledge for you so you’re able to make the most of the opportunity that today’s and tomorrow’s market presents.
Please do not hesitate to contact any of our sales team if you would like more information, we would be delighted to help you with your real estate needs.
Thank you and all the best for the coming month.
Browns Bay branch 35 Clyde Road Browns Bay, Auckland 0630
Darren James and the Browns Bay team
Latest News
Auckland property market heads into winter with strong sales numbers
The Auckland property market had a strong close to the summer/autumn selling season with sales numbers at their strongest for the month of June in four years, and the average price increasing to its highest in three months.
“June is normally a month when sales activity starts to tail off with the approach of winter, but this June was a strong sales month,” said Stephen Barfoot, a Director of Barfoot & Thompson.
“The median sales price for the month at $981,500, was the highest it has been this year and 5.7 percent higher than last month’s median sales price.
“While this is well below the peak median price established a few years ago, compared to where prices have been over the past few months, it represents a pleasing reversal in direction.
“The strong increase in the number of sales being achieved this year compared with the past two years continued into June.
“We sold 876 properties in June, which was our highest number in the month of June for four years and was more than a quarter higher than in the same month last year.
“While June’s sales numbers were down on May’s, our sales for 2025 year-to-date continue to run 20 percent higher than those for last year.
“The market may be drifting in terms of prices, but when it comes to sales turnover it is stronger now than it has been since sales and prices peaked in 2021.
“New listings in the month at 1,405 were solid, but the lowest they have been for 5 months, with month end housing stock sitting at 5,831. While this number is on a par with stock levels at this time last year it is the first time in four months properties on our books have fallen below 6,000.
“The rural and lifestyle markets to the north, west and south of Auckland also had a strong
month going into winter, with the sales value of properties for June being more than $59 million, the highest sales total in these markets in the month of June for three years.
“Sales by value in the rural and lifestyle markets in the first half of 2025 are running 41 percent ahead of where they were at the same time last year.”
Stephen Barfoot Director
Market Share and Figures
Market Leaders
We sell across all price brackets and types of property. Here’s proof why people continue to list and sell with Barfoot & Thompson.
Overall Market Share
Over the last 12 months, Barfoot & Thompson sold more property in our area* than any competitor.
For the period from 1st July 2024 to 30th June 2025 we sold 38% of all properties for sale in the area* – that’s over 1450 sales made by Barfoot & Thompson!
sales overview in the local area* (*Recent Sales)
Bay, Long Bay, Murrays Bay, Northcross, Pinehill, Rothesay Bay, Torbay & Waiake.
1st April to 30th June 2025 compared to the same period last year.
Torbay + Waiake
Rothesay Bay
Pinehill
Murrays Bay
Long Bay
Torbay + Waiake
Rothesay Bay
Pinehill
Murrays Bay
Long Bay
Browns Bay + Northcross
Source: theage.com.au
Energy-efficient homes
Easy Ways to Make Your Home More Sustainable.
Everyone wants to live in a warm, dry house - without the alarming monthly power bill. By making a few small adjustments, you can make your property warmer, drier and more energy efficient - all on a budget that can adapt as you go on.
How do you switch from gas to electric in your home
For decades, gas was promoted as a cheap, clean, “natural” source of power: stored sunshine. Almost overnight, though, this fossil fuel is less popular: recognised as a major contributor to climate change, increasingly expensive and a potential health hazard in the home. With gas now on the nose, the trend is New Zealand`s householders are switching to green electricity.
Where do you start?
The electric heat pump is a technology relatively new to New Zealand and Australia. Germany, in contrast, is considering banning gas boilers entirely in new buildings, with heat pumps likely to be the main replacement due to their higher efficiency.
Costing between $2500 and $5500, depending on brand and capacity, electric heat pumps work a lot like a fridge in reverse, gathering heat from the outside air and transferring it to water in a storage tank. They are much more efficient than old-style electric and gas water heaters and can cost very little to run when drawing power during the day from a home’s solar panels.
If replacing your gas hot water right now is impractical, you could make a start with some passive improvements to reduce your energy usage, which are generally easy and relatively cheap.
What can you change in the kitchen?
Once you have reverse-cycle heating and cooling and heat-pump hot water, next comes the kitchen: replacing a gas cooktop with an induction hotplate.
For many, this can prove the biggest hurdle. For generations, cooking with gas was considered superior to electric: instant heat that could be carefully controlled, far more responsive than the old-style electricelement cooktops.
What we have not known about gas, though, is its less-than-virtuous risk to health, especially our children’s.
Burning it in our kitchens, fills the air with pollutants that can be absorbed into the bloodstream.
Induction cookers produce zero emissions (in the home, at least) and are more efficient than gas – proving faster to boil a pot of water, for example.
The psychological barrier is understanding how they work. Induction cooktops – short for electromagnetic induction – generate a constantly changing magnetic field that transfers an electric current into metal cookware, heating it.
Efficiency Tips
• Seal draughty windows and external doors with weather stripping and automatic door seals for a few dollars from your local hardware store.
• This is basic, but draw the curtains or blinds at night in winter to keep heat inside.
• Block up the chimney if you don’t use the fireplace.
• In old homes, cover the wall vents.
• If you have a reverse-cycle air conditioner already, then you’re at least part of the way towards turning off the gas heating.
Digitally controlled cooking gives the ability to maintain exact temperatures and set timers, with no pan on the surface they stay cool and safe for children and pets, and they are easy to clean; although this is an important change that may cost money and effort, it will last for years and will make your kitchen ecofriendly. If not sure, as a first step you could test the water with a portable single-burner unit from under $100, which plugs into a normal socket.
Source: theage.com.au
So, you’ve turned off the gas. What next?
You may find the journey to electrification also encourages you to improve your home’s efficiency in other ways.
First steps typically include a rooftop solar panel array and new or better insulation in the roof and under the floor for homes on stumps, which are reasonably affordable upgrades, from a few thousand dollars depending on the type of material used, such as natural wool, and the size of the home.
Then there are the major purchases: double glazing, house batteries, electric cars that can potentially reverse-power your home, and renovations or new builds designed to be as energy efficient as possible. But you don’t need to have unlimited funds, alternatives like relying on fireplaces, electric stoves, getting materials from recycling centres, etc. It is about getting off gas and then slowly upgrade appliances or buy new improvements to your home.
New Zealand’s government is developing a plan for managing the gas industry’s transition to a low emissions future, while Auckland’s council has a complete guide and online resources to create a healthy, energyefficient homes. Click here to learn more.
Recent Sales
The following pages show a summary of sales in Browns Bay and surrounds made by all selling agencies during June 2025.
Our sales data includes information submitted by the selling agency and may include some private sales. Where details of a particular sale may not have been able to be fully verified, it may be omitted from our reports.
Please do not hesitate to contact any of our sales team if you would like more information, we would be delighted to help you with your real estate needs.
Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information presented. Land and floor sizes are approximate, sourced from REINZ, Auckland Council or other public sources and may contain inaccuracies. Barfoot & Thompson Limited (REA2008) accepts no responsibility should the contents of this market report prove to be incomplete or incorrect.
Browns Bay & Northcross
68A Arran Road
$1,841,000
1/774 Beach Road
$728,000
208/4 Bute Road
$580,000
16B Capricorn Place
$1,830,000
168A Carlisle Road
$1,065,000
922 East Coast Road
$1,630,000
1/962 East Coast Road
$877,000
17 Eastwood Rise
$1,500,000
7/1 Glen Road
$580,000
54C Glencoe Road
$1,980,000 $1,800,000
1/7 Newstead Avenue
$775,000 $890,000 CV
121
Oaktree Avenue
$1,605,000
60
Oaktree Avenue
$1,500,000 $1,175,000
2/4 Oban Road
$1,557,001 $1,525,000
4
10
Philson Terrace
$2,030,000
8 Saint Clair Place
$1,700,000 $1,725,000
9 Saint Clair Place
$1,720,000
24A Scarlock Avenue
$1,295,000
48
Murrays Bay
Pinehill
17A Clematis Avenue
87 Saddleback Rise $1,070,000
23 Ballyboe Place
2 Greville Road
48 Killybegs Drive
19A Rosedale Road
16 Spencer Road
Land Size Sale price 916
$1,425,000 $1,300,000 CV
Bedrooms 5 Floor size 88
2 Te Hoe Grove
$1,402,000 $1,350,000 CV Land Size Sale price 636
Bedrooms 5 Floor size 160
Rothesay Bay
21B Knights Road
$1,368,000 $1,200,000 CV Land Size Sale price 168 Bedrooms 3 Floor size 122
This publication shows data regarding a wide selection of published residential property sales that have recently occurred. It includes information from multiple sources and published reports of sales made by most Real Estate agencies and may include private sales. Where data is not publicly available, an individual sale may have been excluded from the average results and tallies shown in this report. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information. Barfoot and Thompson Limited (REAA2008) accepts no responsibility should the contents of this market report prove to be incomplete or incorrect.
Torbay, Long Bay & Waiake
Lot 5/10 Alexander Avenue
$900,000
Lot 4/10 Alexander Avenue
$685,000
Lot 6/10 Alexander Avenue
$800,000
28 Alexander Avenue
$1,235,000
70B Alexander Avenue
$1,200,000
1/918 Beach Road
$935,000
1/965 Beach Road
$1,275,000
Lot 4/8 Clensmore Place
$943,000
4 Corwen Place
$1,317,000
64
County Road
$1,560,000
18 Deep Creek Road
$1,152,000
2/30 Firth Road
$1,620,000
14 Flavia Close
$1,179,000
5 Freya Place
$1,150,000
11 Geoffrey Road
$900,000
27 Hebron Road
$1,200,000
52 Kumukumu Road
$2,001,000
11B Manuwai Road
$1,330,000
Lot 6/12 Manuwai Road
$745,000 $840,000
12B Newburn Road
$2,150,000 $2,300,000
252 Okura River Road
$2,315,000
Lot 2/6 Sealy Road
$866,000
Lot 4/6 Sealy Road
$860,000
12 Shannon Place
$1,203,000
115A Stredwick Drive
$1,090,000
10 Tawatawa Street
$1,952,000
302/84 Te Oneroa Way
$620,000
11 Tuatini Place
$1,900,000 $1,800,000 CV
2 Uruhau Close
$1,390,000 $1,350,000 CV Land Size Sale price 495
13 Valerie Crescent
$870,000 $950,000 CV Land Size Sale price 809
218 Vaughans Road
$2,625,000
72F Weatherly Road
$812,500 $800,000 CV
5/19 Windlass Street
4
4
2
5
2
$1,050,000 $1,450,000 CV Land Size Sale price Unit Title Bedrooms 4 Floor size 193
26 Windlass Street
$1,710,000 $1,775,000 CV Land Size Sale price 318 Bedrooms 4 Floor size 300
This publication shows data regarding a wide selection of published residential property sales that have recently occurred. It includes information from multiple sources and published reports of sales made by most Real Estate agencies and may include private sales. Where data is not publicly available, an individual sale may have been excluded from the average results and tallies shown in this report. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information. Barfoot and Thompson Limited (REAA2008) accepts no responsibility should the contents of this market report prove to be incomplete or incorrect.
Meet the Team
Darren James Branch Manager 027 485 4446
I enjoy my job with a passion and am extremely proud to manage the Browns Bay team. It is a career choice that I take very seriously and am always mindful that good business today can lead to many further opportunities tomorrow.
I am determined to deliver excellent client service and the Browns Bay team share this aim.
I have been able to integrate the variety of experiences and skills gained from my previous roles within the Health Service and retail sales in the UK to my role within Barfoot & Thompson. Since being appointed branch manager in 2007, I have developed my multinational team of real estate to focus on top quality service.
I am a firm believer in having a healthy working culture in the office. Despite this being a sales focused industry, my team have the freedom to develop their individual talents within a competitive framework to fully meet the needs of all clients.
Please feel free to contact me. I will always make myself available for personal assistance.
Property Management team
Nikki Gallichan Head of Property Management 027 436 0874
Amanda Chue Senior Property Manager 027 836 4913
Anna Gibbons Senior Property Manager 027 431 9461
Vivienne Shen Property Manager 027 628 7919
Residential Sales team
Harvey Zhang Assistant Manager 022 166 5225
Laura Anderson 021 087 63681
Bren Duckworth 021 046 4496
Misty Goodgame 021 035 4985
Chris Ediker 022 395 0408
Emma Guo 027 331 5856
Jennifer Jiang 027 603 7788
Harry Liu 021 187 3838
Kim Jin 021 395 888
Lili Ma 022 301 0068
Hanna Cao 021 778 867
Helen Fu 021 179 1037
Winnie Han 021 918 337
Stephen Kattan 021 808 938
Colin & Raelene McMurtrie 027 641 2863
Bob Cui 022 699 1996
Gina Gao 021 023 67788
James Ji 021 937 667
Andrea Kent 027 246 4004
Jason Meng 021 053 5987
Roy Dong 021 068 8280
Sophie Gao 021 678 291
Tanya Ji 021 262 7649
Brianna Liu 021 596 888
Eva Ng 021 276 8722
Residential Sales team continued
Jessica Noh 021 2211 004
Isobel Pope 0274 476 235
Shirley Tong 021 166 9548
Geraldine Zareian 021 184 0312
Coy Zhao 021 529 959
Pav Obradovic 021 931 339
Stephen Reed 022 037 4919
Bob Voss 027 425 1781
Mehran Zareian 021 023 02469
Becky Zhu 021 075 9200
Neil O’Gorman 022 437 8747
Nancy Shan 021 597 779
Mark Wang 021 268 3216
Emma Zhang 021 368 531
David Zhu 021 898 355
Rita Oliver 021 116 6377
Vic Singh 021 189 3951
Alina Yang 021 608 219
Zoe Zhang 027 434 8296
Nicole Penny 021 150 0569
Jeanette Skewes 027 499 8804
Yin Yin 022 047 9978
Cindy Zhao 021 030 5099
Barfoot & Thompson
35 Clyde Road, Browns Bay, Auckland 0630
Residential Sales 09 478 5119
Property Management 09 478 6195
Email browns@barfoot.co.nz barfoot.co.nz/browns-bay