
Cherry Ning


When I was staying with my elderly father in west Auckland a couple of years back, I fortuitously tucked away a letter that had arrived in our mailbox from Cherry. I managed to find it last November when we needed it, did some research to see what others said, and impressed, got Cherry to our list the house. I'm so glad we did and that I saved that letter. She made the daunting task of trying to sell Dad's house possible in a very difficult market and remotely (I'm in Wellington). Every step of the way, she anticipated what would be hard (and stressful) with me being so far away (like getting tidy up jobs done on the house before listing), and provided a solution. I was keeping up-to-date with the market, and everything I was reading backed up the very sound, professional and regular updates I was receiving from Cherry about the current state of the property market, how far away a recovery might be, and what was happening locally - always backed up by recent local sales data. We hadn't ruled out taking the house off the market, renting it instead and waiting for the market to recover, but that wasn't my father's preference. I never felt pressure from Cherry to accept any offer, and knew that if we decided to take it off the market she would have respectfully understood. She even offered to drive several hours to meet my father if he had wanted that as I was doing the leg work on his behalf as his power of attorney. In the end, despite good marketing but limited interest (a sign of the times for this kind of property at this time), there was the real prospect we wouldn't be able to sell for an acceptable price at this time. But Cherry worked hard and managed to get us multiple offers. We accepted the highest, which was in our ball park. It was not of course as good as it would have been at the height of the boom in mid 2021/early 2022, and reflected the value falls since those crazy times, but we were realistic on that front. I highly recommend Cherry.
