Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Spare a thought for Aucklanders today
It is as expected - if our office is anything to go by, Auckland is a miserable town today because the house valuations are out, and they're bad.
Just about everyone has jumped on the computer to have a look by now, I'd say, and just about everyone's house has gone backwards.
So my house - it's gone down in value by 8 percent. One of the bosses, not too bad, only gone back by 4 percent. I don't think anyone's house has gone up in the office. Someone's house has dropped by $250,000.
One colleague, and this colleague is suffering more than anybody else - her house has gone down by 21 percent…
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