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Barfoot and Thompson says its residential property sales in Auckland increased during September.
It says 559 houses were sold, up from 502 in August, which it says is in line with normal expectations of a springtime lift in the market.
However the agency says its average sale price dropped back to below the half a million dollar mark for the third time this year.
It was $496,000 for September, compared with $524,000 in August.
Managing director Peter Thompson says the month started strongly, but there was a noticeable impact from the credit crisis in the middle part of the month.
- NEWSTALK ZB
