Your Doorway to Commercial Property. FREE to List!

If you have vacant Commercial Property then you will be pleased to know that there is an alternative to Trade Me available to you, and it’s FREE to list.

FindSpace is a new site that only list commercial property.  You won’t find any houses, cars or shoes on our site and our SpaceFinder search tool makes it easier for your customers to find your property.

Properties are logically split between Office, Retail, Industrial, Storage and Other categories and you can flag a property as been For Sale and For Lease in the one entry.

There are a number of upgraded plans available as well that will give your listing extra exposure and display it on the front page.

FindSpace has been developed to make it as easy as possible for your customers to find what they are after and you can even list properties that are Not for Sale, see the Tickle Me plans.

So with so much to offer, why would you not list your property on FindSpace, FREE to Join and FREE to list.

On reviewing a number of listings on FindSpace we have noticed that only a minimum amount of information is been loaded and when it comes to figures there are some very cheap building around, or so it would seem.

The old adage of Garbage In = Garbage Out is very true here.  If subscribers are entering in invalid information then the likelihood is that these listings will not be picked up correctly when users are searching via the SpaceFinder search tool.

Fields that seem to be getting overlooked are:

• Entering the property area into the correct filed type in our Area MakeUp table
• Entering spurious figures for Sale or Lease prices in order to save a listing (we force these fields for a reason, so potential buyers can compare building accurately via a per metre cost, and so that they don’t waste your time by enquiring about a property that is not in their price range).
• Putting the number of carparks in the text field.  By doing this it negates the ability for a user to search by car parks.
• Not entering dates and details for Tenders and Auctions in the correct place.

At the end of the day we won’t tell subscribers how to use the system but would suggest that all the fields we use are there for a reason, ie., it relates to the type of information users are interested in when searching for a property.

Please find the latest articles from the Colliers Knowledge Centre below.
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Pump It Up
Significant property sales in the main centres, so far in 2009, have reached $1.16 billion, 22% ahead of 2008’s total of $942 million with a month to go. This is the total of retail, industrial, office and mixed commercial use sales over $2 million. Download the full report for more.
Click here to download the PDF (1.1 MB)

Riders on the Storm
As we ride out the economic storm, commercial landlords continue to struggle with declining values, pressure on rents and increasing incentives, but in a country which finds itself on the outer edges of the economic storm. Download the full report for more.
Click here to download the PDF (1.0 MB)

Both Sides of the Story
September monthly report includes our regular quarterly updates of the rental and capital indices. In general we are still seeing easing of rental and capital values, some declines slowing and others gathering pace. Sometimes evidence of rental changes in particular take time to show. Download our full report for more.
Click here to download the PDF (757 KB)

New Zealand CBD Office Market Indicators Report
Major research report discussing the latest market indicators including vacancy rates, rents, capital values, yields and transactions in New Zealand’s CBD Office market sector.
Click here to download the PDF (633 KB)

Queenstown Property Market Update
Queenstown’s property market has always been, and will likely continue to be, more cyclical than the majority to other New Zealand markets. The easy supply of credit during the last few years encouraged the last growth phase, with in excess of $200 million per annum of construction occurring in Queenstown over the last five years.
Click here to download the PDF (1.3 MB)

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We have just completed the development work to allow us to import data from Real Estate firms, which was a major piece of work for us here at FindSpace.

We have been working closely with PortalPusher to design a viable import format and their XML structure ticked all the boxes with us.

CBRE Wellington were the first client to use the feature bringing in about 180 listings in about five minutes.

Please find the latest articles from the Colliers Knowledge Centre below.
For more information and to see all the articles, please click below:
http://www.colliers.co.nz/Knowledge-Centre/

Riders on the Storm
As we ride out the economic storm, commercial landlords continue to struggle with declining values, pressure on rents and increasing incentives, but in a country which finds itself on the outer edges of the economic storm. Download the full report for more.
Click here to download the PDF (1.0 MB)

Both Sides of the Story
September monthly report includes our regular quarterly updates of the rental and capital indices. In general we are still seeing easing of rental and capital values, some declines slowing and others gathering pace. Sometimes evidence of rental changes in particular take time to show. Download our full report for more.
Click here to download the PDF (757 KB)

New Zealand CBD Office Market Indicators Report
Major research report discussing the latest market indicators including vacancy rates, rents, capital values, yields and transactions in New Zealand’s CBD Office market sector.
Click here to download the PDF (633 KB)

Queenstown Property Market Update
Queenstown’s property market has always been, and will likely continue to be, more cyclical than the majority to other New Zealand markets. The easy supply of credit during the last few years encouraged the last growth phase, with in excess of $200 million per annum of construction occurring in Queenstown over the last five years.
Click here to download the PDF (1.3 MB)

Things Can Only Get Better
After a few months of pretty bleak commentary it is refreshing to be able to record some positive signs. Firstly the decline in the industrial property market is slowing. Rents have declined and vacancy increased, but not dramatically.
Click here to download the PDF (787 KB)