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It's been a patchy year for the property market.
Prices have been flat or slightly down in many parts of the country through 2025, although Southland has returned to its post-pandemic price highs, and Queenstown remains an outlier.
Real Estate Institute data shows that both the most expensive house sale of the year and the cheapest are in Auckland, where the market is more sluggish than most of the rest of the country.
64 Sentinel Road, Herne Bay, in central Auckland, sold in September f
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