Sales of million-dollar plus properties in the Bay are up on last year, bucking a national decrease driven by a drop in Auckland sales.
In the first half of 2017 there were 180 properties sold for more than a million across the region, according to new figures from the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand.
That was an 18 per cent increase on the same period in 2016, when 152 such properties sold.
In the year to June four Bay of Plenty properties sold for over $3 million and one fetched over $5 million.
Nationwide the number dropped 4 per cent mostly driven by Auckland, which saw an 8 per cent drop.