Bayleys Real Estate Ponsonby

162 Jervois Road, Herne Bay, Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand 1011
  •   5   (226 reviews)

Our sales performance at a glance

See how Bayleys Real Estate Ponsonby has performed in the last 12 months on RateMyAgent*

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Reviews
98
Properties for sale
155
Sold properties
$2.4m
Average sale price
$375.9m
Total sales value

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Meet the team

Get to know the 22 agents at Bayleys Real Estate Ponsonby.

About Cristina
Cristina Casares is one of Auckland’s most trusted and high-performing real estate professionals, with over $416 million in settled sales across the Greater Ponsonby Area including Grey Lynn, Ponsonby, Herne Bay, Westmere, Freemans Bay, and Saint Marys Bay. Known for her genuine approach and passion for helping people achieve their property dreams, Cristina has a keen eye for detail and a deep understanding of the diverse range of homes in Auckland’s inner-west. Working with Bayleys Ponsonby, a locally-owned, family-run business with an outstanding reputation, Cristina takes pride in delivering exceptional results for her clients. Her love of real estate goes beyond the physical properties, she believes every home has its own story and charm. From character villas and bungalows in Grey Lynn and Ponsonby, to architecturally renovated homes in Herne Bay and Westmere, Cristina is passionate about showcasing what makes each property special. As a Grey Lynn local, Cristina has built strong relationships within the community, connecting with homeowners and buyers who appreciate her personal touch and in-depth local knowledge. She believes the Greater Ponsonby area is one of the best places to live in Auckland, celebrated for its diverse community, world-class eateries, vibrant atmosphere, and inspirational architecture. Cristina’s dedication to her clients and community has earned her multiple accolades, including the Trademe Property Impact Awards 2025 - People’s Choice Award, voted by clients for her outstanding service and results. She is also a proud recipient of the REINZ Community Service Award - Individual (2018 & 2022), recognising her continuous contributions to the community. Beyond real estate, Cristina is deeply committed to giving back. She is the founder of Alegría Charity, a foundation dedicated to supporting New Zealand’s youth facing mental health challenges by sponsoring them to get involved in sports and activities that build confidence and joy. Outside of work, Cristina enjoys spending time with her children and two dogs. She starts her day with meditation and exercise and is passionate about self-improvement. Cristina finds her adrenaline rush in windsurf foiling, having competed at the New Zealand Nationals in this sport, which reflects her philosophy of striving for excellence in every area of life. When clients choose Cristina as their real estate professional, they can expect more than just a premium result, they can expect a genuine partner who is positive, passionate, and will be with them every step of the way. Cristina provides expert guidance, personalised attention, and specialist negotiation skills, ensuring a smooth and rewarding selling experience. 2025 Trademe Property Impact Awards - People’s Choice Award 2024 Top 5% of Bayleys Salespeople 2024 Bayleys High Achiever 2024 Big on Community Award - Bayleys Auckland 2022 Winner of REINZ Award for Excellence - Community service award - Individual 2019 Finalist for REINZ Award for Excellence - The innovation award 2019 Top 10 New Zealand Agent of the Year - RateMyAgent 2018 Winner of REINZ Award for Excellence - Community service award - Individual
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Jono King
Jono King

Licensed Real Estate Agent

  5   (81 reviews)
About Jono
Jono King is a residential sales specialist with Bayleys, successfully selling within some of Auckland’s most sought-after city fringe and waterfront suburbs. Known for his calm approach, strategic thinking, and polished campaigns, Jono has built a reputation for delivering premium results while making the process feel seamless for his clients. With more than a decade of experience in the industry, he combines strong negotiation skills with a sharp understanding of presentation, buyer demand and market positioning - ensuring every property is brought to market with purpose and impact. Clients value Jono’s professionalism, clear communication and unwavering attention to detail. His approach is highly personalised, with every campaign carefully tailored to maximise competition and achieve the best possible outcome. Whether representing a landmark property, a character home, or a design-led apartment, Jono is committed to delivering a high-level experience from appraisal through to sale.
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Blair Haddow
Blair Haddow

Licensed Real Estate Agent

  5   (31 reviews)
About Blair
Blair Haddow is a master of his craft. Achieving the best outcome for each and every client is his number one motivation. He accomplishes this through superior negotiation skills, complete professionalism and a robust knowledge of how to prepare and match high end properties with the ideal buyer. Exceeding expectations is the reason Blair is in constant demand from both vendors and buyers. His attention to detail is as laser focused as his commitment to each client - from the first contact to the final call. It’s little wonder he has remained in the top 5% of Bayleys agents for more than a decade and is regularly ranked one of the top salespeople across Bayleys nation-wide. Blair understands people as well as he understands quality, and combines the two in his dedicated team of professionals working behind the scenes to ensure a seamless and stress-free experience for his clientele. Attentive, empathetic and honest, the individualised and dedicated experience Blair offers his vendors is why so many of them are repeat clients - and because everything he does is underpinned by the drive to achieve excellence. Renowned for handling some of the city’s most exclusive properties, Blair Haddow delivers. In excess of $750M sales in Greater Ponsonby. Top 5% Bayleys Agents Nationwide 2010-2026. Community supporter and supporter of The Bayleys Foundation.
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Paul Raynes
Paul Raynes

Licensed Real Estate Agent

  5   (31 reviews)
About Paul
Paul Raynes has had a profound effect on the Central Auckland residential market over the last 32 years. Qualified as Branch Manager since 1998 he now has his AREINZ qualification. With over 500 Settled Sales he clearly has a dynamic ability to get the results. Married with three children, Paul has a background in accounting and marketing. He brings an understanding of life's realities and a sense of humanity and compassion that goes beyond just getting the job done. Paul has sold property from Blockhouse Bay to Herne Bay and Pt Chevalier where Paul currently lives in a renovated 1920's bungalow. "Even though the job is far more demanding than it was, it still provides the ultimate satisfaction when both vendor and buyer are happy with the result". Paul feels taking the time to listen to people's needs, being fully confident in negotiating, and above all having a good sense of humour, have enabled him to thrive in a tough industry.
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Nick Gilbert
Nick Gilbert

Licensed Real Estate Agent / Residential Specialist

  4.9   (23 reviews)
About Nick
Nick Gilbert is one of Auckland’s leading emerging prestige real estate agents, specialising in high-value homes and premium development opportunities across the city’s most sought-after suburbs, including Herne Bay, Westmere, Ponsonby, Grey Lynn and Point Chevalier. Renowned for his market intelligence, disciplined sales process and commercial negotiation style, Nick consistently delivers strong outcomes for his clients, both on and off market. Since April 2025, he has achieved over $75 million in settled sales, representing some of Auckland’s most tightly held family homes, architectural residences and strategic landholdings. Nick is particularly known for his ability to structure and negotiate complex, multi-million-dollar transactions, working closely with private clients, developers and international buyers to unlock value and create competitive tension in discreet, tightly managed campaigns. He offers a highly personalised, confidential service to his clientele across New Zealand and offshore, and is trusted for his calm execution, strategic advice and relentless focus on achieving premium results.
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Sonia Dufty
Sonia Dufty

Licensee

  5   (24 reviews)
About Sonia
Sonia is driven by genuine care and a strong sense of responsibility for her clients and those searching for a new home. Dedicated and sincere, she believes building trust is important in bringing everyone together to achieve a great result. This is a highly successful approach as Sonia has a proven track record of excellent outcomes for her clients. Before moving into real estate, Sonia worked closely with a top business broker marketing a wide range of businesses. This gave her a solid foundation in all aspects of bringing a property to market and designing bespoke campaigns carefully tailored to suit each home and client. Sonia has a reputation for seamlessly combining the skills required to guide people through their real estate journey - care, compassion, problem solving and negotiation. At all times the wellbeing of her clients is at the forefront. Outside of work Sonia loves tennis, cheering on the sidelines of her son’s sporting events, family fishing trips and catching up with friends. Sonia and her family live in Northcote Point and after 15 years in “The Points” she has an in-depth knowledge and connection to Auckland’s beautiful North Shore. She loves to support her community, sponsoring the Northcote Tennis Club and Bearcats Basketball Academy. Sonia only takes on a small number of property listings at any one time, to ensure her clients, their homes and potential buyers get the attention they deserve. For a curated property experience with a 100% commitment in achieving the best possible result, give Sonia a call.
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About us

Being on the city’s doorstep, the central suburbs will always be the coveted ones and Bayleys Ponsonby proudly flies the flag for Auckland’s trophy neighbourhoods. A vibrant hub of activity and home to over 22 elite residential sales experts, supported by a large team of administrators and marketing executives, Bayleys’ Ponsonby office - awarded the REINZ Medium Residential Office of the Year for four years (2020-2023) - is renowned for its high-performance culture, which consistently nets results. Nick Reid leads a team that boasts a high proportion of Bayleys' top salespeople, backed by decades of collective experience in real estate industries in New Zealand and abroad. This experience gives the team a unique pedigree to net optimal outcomes for sellers of some of the city’s most prestigious properties - including heritage homes, harbour view apartments and new developments. Given the community's aspirational nature and homeowners' discerning expectations, the team operates at the highest level, adding value at every step of the way. Our expertise spans every facet of the real estate industry, including smart pre-sales advice, negotiations, marketing, or the utilisation of Bayleys’ broad national network and international affiliation with global property consultancy Knight Frank. Widely regarded as some of the best operators in the business, our team possesses unrivalled attention to detail, and value each property as if it were their own. We create bespoke marketing campaigns that generate maximum interest, ultimately delivering the best possible sale result. To learn more about the competitive edge that’s netted us the slew of industry awards below, or for more information about our service offerings including appraisals, we welcome your call.

Our reviews

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Buyer review
Excellent experience from start to end
about 9 hours ago
Excellent experience from start to end

We could not have been happier with Sonia Dufty from start to finish in our purchase journey. What could have been a complicated and stressful process, particularly with the body corporate and a number of other complexities along the way, was made so much easier because of Sonia’s calm, professional and genuinely caring approach. From the very beginning, Sonia was incredibly responsive and always available when we needed her. She never once made us feel pressured or rushed into making a decision. Instead, she gave us the space and confidence to work through things at our own pace, while always being there with guidance and support when we needed it. What really stood out was how resourceful and relentless Sonia was in finding answers to our questions. Whenever something came up that needed clarification or further investigation, she went the extra mile to get the information we needed and kept us informed throughout the process. Nothing ever seemed like too much trouble. Most importantly, we genuinely built a strong sense of trust and connection with Sonia throughout the journey. We always felt that she understood what was important to us and was genuinely invested in helping us achieve the outcome we wanted, rather than simply trying to get a transaction over the line. We would have absolutely no hesitation in recommending Sonia to anyone looking for an agent. She was exceptional to deal with, and we are extremely grateful for everything she did for us.

Sonia Dufty

Sonia Dufty

  5   (24 reviews)
Buyer review
Nothing short of exceptional
about 10 hours ago
Nothing short of exceptional

We were on the buy side with Sonia and dealt with her on two properties. She was incredibly professional, genuine and proactive. We found her a delight to deal with and breath of fresh air which is rare with real estate agents especially on buy side matters. We are delighted with the house we purchased from Sonia and she went above and beyond to make sure everything was smooth even after moving in. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Sonia to anyone looking to sell their home and she’s one of the best agents I have ever met. Thanks Sonia.

Sonia Dufty

Sonia Dufty

  5   (24 reviews)
Buyer review
Once again a fabulous result for us Cristina you’re amazing
1 day ago
Once again a fabulous result for us Cristina you’re amazing

Cristina found us a wonderful new home, she knew what we wanted and she delivered- thank you so much Cristina a wonderful agent to work with both in the buying and selling process

Cristina Casares

Cristina Casares

  5   (133 reviews)
Seller review
A pleasure to work with
5 days ago
A pleasure to work with

Cristina was with us for a 3 year process on our house sale. As the market worsened and sales were hard for all in Auckland Cristina kept positive and managed to find a buyer so we could move forwards with our new life in Christchurch. Always courteous and passionate about her role despite a roller coaster ride, it was a pleasure working with Cristina.

Cristina Casares

Cristina Casares

  5   (133 reviews)
Seller review
Knowledgeable, well connected and a pleasure to deal with
6 days ago
Knowledgeable, well connected and a pleasure to deal with

Cristina was a pleasure to deal with throughout the sale of my property. She has a strong knowledge of the market and made the whole process straightforward and stress-free. What particularly stood out was the strength of her network and her ability to connect the right buyers with the right properties. She was professional, approachable and easy to work with, and communicated well throughout the process. I was very happy with the outcome and would have no hesitation recommending Cristina to anyone looking to sell their property.

Cristina Casares

Cristina Casares

  5   (133 reviews)
Seller review
Excellent Agent - Highly Recommend!
24 days ago
Excellent Agent - Highly Recommend!

We couldn’t have asked for a better agent. It was a challenging sale with some difficult circumstances, but she handled everything with professionalism, patience and care. Her communication was excellent throughout, and she was an absolute pleasure to work with. We’re so grateful for all her hard work and would highly recommend her!

Sayesha Mehta

Sayesha Mehta

  5   (1 review)
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Our properties

Bayleys Real Estate Ponsonby has 98 properties for sale and sold 155 properties in the last 12 months, showing 4, sorted by most recent activity

For Sale
Auction
1/47 Jervois Road
Herne Bay Auckland
3
2
2
Apartment
SoldSep 23, 2026
Price not available
68 Ardmore Rd
Ponsonby Auckland
3
3
House
For Sale
Asking Price $579,000
102/11 Vinegar Lane
Grey Lynn Auckland
1
1
1
Apartment
For Sale
Asking Price $790,000
2E/16 Chapman St
Grey Lynn Auckland
2
2
1
Apartment
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