Software: Real Estate Investar (www.realestateinvestar.co.nz)
Thanks to my most fantastic friend – Sam Newble at Merge – I have been playing around with this simply awesome piece of software.
(check it out here: www.realestateinvestar.co.nz)
It scrapes together information on properties for sale from all over the country and compiles it in one place. Then it compiles it with information from a horde of other sources (such as the Department of Statistics) and with some technical “voodoo” combines it all together.
When you are using the software, you search (using an ever expanding group of queries) and find properties you are looking for. Then, using the earlier “voodoo” I mentioned – you ‘drill’ down through the information and see a fantastic array of information - everything from recent sales and population density to average incomes in the area, and simply so much more. It displays it all in a very readable manner and is all just useful.
For example: House A is for sale and I know how much for. With a little click of a button I see that actually there’s four million other houses for sale in that area and four million and ten people live in the suburb…. So it gets crossed off my list straight away.
It is quite simply a fantastic tool and yes I simply adore it.
If you would like a slightly less emotive opinion about it, Sam will be able to give you one – however, I suspect that mine will continue to be emotive and smiley, as I think it’s the best thing since sliced bread.
Shayne Thurston
Lambton Property Management
