As I write this last article for the year, It’s always good to look back at the past year and reflect on what has happened and what we have achieved.
During 2018 we have celebrated the marriage of one of our top brokers Shoneet Chand to his lovely wife Shainal. Our office manager Nikki Reed announced her engagement. Our commercial manager Janet Marshall joined the board of the Takapuna Beach Business Association (TBBA). One of our other brokers Ryan deZwart joined the board of Business North Harbour and I was elected for another term on the Board of Trustees at Westlake Boys High School. Colliers has undertaken to sponsor the TBBA again this coming year as a gold sponsor. We all agree that it is very satisfying to give back to the community and we are happy to give up our time and commitment to these great organisations.
On another note, earlier this year during a moment of either madness or over enthusiasm Mike Ryan one of our industrial brokers and I set ourselves the goal to complete the Kepler Challenge. This gruelling event is a 60km off-road ultra marathon which follows a track across the mountainous Kepler Ranges in Te Anau and takes place on the 1st of December. We have both put in hours of training and run hundreds of kilometres for the last nine months and hope we have done enough to complete this challenge. We are also using this event to raise money for the charity KidsCan. If you want to support this please check out our givealittle page (details below). Matt Prentice and I sold a building this year which had KidsCan as a tenant and I was inspired by all the good work this organisation does to help kiwi kids living in hardship.
https://givealittle.co.nz/fundraiser/my-first-ultra-marathon-for-the-charity-kidscan
As the end of the year approaches, 2018 is shaping up to be one of the best if not the best year Colliers North Shore has had. Some significant sales we have brokered on the North Shore this year include 10-12 Rothwell Ave for $18,400,000; 11 Colliseum Drive for $26,400,000; 44 Arrenway Drive for $13,117,166 and 13 William Pickering Drive for $11,400,000. Despite the current low vacancy across the commercial/Industrial market we have also leased over 31,000sqm of commercial space on the North Shore this year.
So in closing, the team here at Colliers International would like to wish you and your families a Merry Christmas and hope that 2018 has been kind to you. All the best for the coming new year.
