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After experiencing the rapid growth of Silverdale over the past two years, Snells Beach and Warkworth Harcourts co-owner Amy Wagstaff says people might be surprised by the speed and scale of development coming to Mahurangi.
Amy has been managing Harcourts franchises in Orewa and Silverdale for the past two years. She is now sales manager and director of Tandem Realty North Ltd, which owns the two Mahurangi Harcourts branches and is based at the Warkworth office.
“We have the benefits of a large company above us with good systems in place and a big referral network, but we still have a small, local feel and ownership structure.
“It’s a really good team too. We have agents who have worked here for over 20 years and two are in the top 20 Harcourts agents in the country.”
Amy has been shocked by the pace of growth and rise in prices on the Hibiscus Coast and says, with Auckland Council earmarking large tranches of land for growth in Warkworth, the same will likely happen here.
“In Silverdale we had a 100 people on our waiting list looking for properties and new houses were sold before they’d been built.
“I see high demand here too, and the market is still moving rapidly.
“There are also more families moving to the area, especially in areas with good, affordable housing, such as Warkworth, Leigh, Snells Beach and Wellsford.”
Amy grew up in Indiana in the US and studied sales and marketing, but soon realised she didn’t want to be stuck behind a desk and started working in real estate.
After meeting her Kiwi husband, she moved to New Zealand 11 years ago.
“I love it. I would never go back to live in the USA.”
Amy wants to increase the business’s community support. Roughly one per cent of all commissions go into the Harcourts Foundation fund, which is given to community projects four times a year. Visit harcourtsfoundation.org to apply.
