Barfoot and Thompson Auction Results Today: Sales and Trends

Properties sold (July): 129 · Bids accepted (July): 3,923 · Sales value (July): over $163 million · Auctions called (June): 346 · Properties sold (June): 163 · Sales rate range by district: 45%–87%

Two months of data, one pattern: volume is high, and the gap between the strongest and weakest rooms is the real story. The counts come from the official wraps cited above, with the clearance range from QV’s district analysis.

What are the Barfoot and Thompson auction results today?

The honest answer is that there is no public page titled “today’s results.” Search the exact phrase and the top organic results mix the official auction page, social-media recaps, a generic auction-listing aggregator, and specialist property media — but no dedicated daily log.

Results arrive in layers. The monthly wrap is the headline layer: Barfoot & Thompson’s auction news page recorded 129 properties sold in July, with 3,923 accepted bids and more than $163 million in sales. The weekly layer comes from independent trackers like interest.co.nz (property and finance news), which tallies each room and publishes a clearance rate per district.

What were yesterday’s results?

• “Yesterday” is folded into the monthly wrap, not published as a standalone list.
• The official page updates individual property listings as sales are confirmed, including deals agreed by 5pm the day after the auction.
• To reconstruct yesterday, the realistic path is the official auction page plus an independent weekly tally.

That 5pm rule matters because it makes “sold” a looser term than the hammer alone. interest.co.nz counted a property as sold in its weekly tally only if the auction ended in a sale or an offer was accepted by 5pm the following day — a definition that captures late-night negotiation, not just live bidding.

So yesterday’s results exist inside bigger numbers. The closest thing to same-day clarity is the live feed while the auction is running, not a table published the next morning.

How to interpret today’s numbers

• Clearance rate = properties sold on the day or confirmed shortly after, divided by properties marketed.
• The monthly read across districts: 45% to 87%, a spread of 42 percentage points.
• A one-day sample can mislead — a two-property session that sells both homes prints as 100%.

That last point is the trap in “today’s numbers.” A tiny session can produce a spectacular clearance rate, and a five-property on-site day can produce a terrible one, without the underlying market moving at all.

Key statistics from recent auctions

• July: 129 properties sold, 3,923 accepted bids, more than $163 million in sales (Barfoot & Thompson auction news, cited above).
• June: 346 auctions called, 163 properties sold, 3,470 accepted bids, more than $172 million in sales (official auction results page, cited above).
• District span: 45% (Papakura) to 87% (top districts) in the monthly read (QV, cited above).

Put together, the two months show a steady picture: high volume, active bidding, and a wide gap between the strongest and weakest rooms.

Why this matters: the aggregate “sold” headline is true but soft. The useful signal is the district span, which drives the comparison below.

The pattern: results are published on a monthly clock, so the useful unit for a buyer is not “today” but the latest completed period.

What live auction events are Barfoot and Thompson holding today?

Live auctions run through the week across Auckland’s auction rooms, and the session list changes daily. June’s volume — 346 auctions called, 163 sold — is the yardstick from the snapshot above; July’s 129 sales show the rooms stayed busy.

If you are trying to bid today, the session list is the operative detail, and it lives on Barfoot & Thompson’s official auction results page.

How to access live auction feeds

• The official auction page carries the current schedule and live-webcast links for each room.
• Most sessions can be followed remotely; registering to bid is separate from simply watching.
• On-site auctions appear on the same schedule, though they made up a small share of the weekly sample — five of 87 properties in the tally cited earlier.

Watching a session before you bid is the best education the market offers: you see the opening, the increments, and the exact moment a property passes in.

Current live auction schedule

• Shortland Street, North Shore, Manukau, and Pukekohe are the rooms named in the most recent weekly tallies.
• Session times are set per venue, with the official page posting same-day changes.
• Special sessions — mortgagee and High Court auctions — also appear on the calendar and sell on their own pace.

Schedule details move too fast to print; the page updates as sessions are added.

What to expect in a Barfoot & Thompson auction

• The auctioneer opens the bidding and works the room until the reserve is met or the property passes in.
• If it passes in, negotiation continues after the session — and a sale can be confirmed by 5pm the following day, the same rule interest.co.nz applies in its clearance tallies.

That post-auction window is why “sold” in the monthly statistics means more than “sold under the hammer.” It includes the deal struck over coffee an hour later.

How do Barfoot and Thompson auction results compare to last year?

The cleanest public benchmark is late 2021. On 27 October 2021, QV (independent property data firm) recorded auction numbers higher than the same period a year earlier, with sales rates from 45% in Papakura to 87% in the strongest districts, and auction activity up across all seven Auckland sub-districts.

Year-over-year auction volume comparison

• October 2021: auction volume above the same period in 2020 (QV).
• All seven Auckland sub-districts recorded higher auction activity (QV).
• For the current period, the same-month-last-year baseline does not appear in the top search results.

The comparison is therefore partial. We can say auction activity was higher in 2021 than a year earlier; we cannot yet say, from available sources, how this June and July stack against the same months a year before.

A direct comparison with Pattinson’s same-week results would sharpen the picture, but that dataset is not in the top search results.

Sales rate trends

• QV’s monthly lens: 45% to 87% clearance across districts.
• interest.co.nz’s weekly lens, detailed in the district section below: 46% for the week, with rooms from 20% to 80%.
• The shape of the trend: wide dispersion, not a smooth climb.

Both lenses agree that auction activity is elevated. They measure different clocks, though — one a month, one a single week — so the ranges will never match exactly, and comparing them as if they do produces false precision.

Factors influencing the increase

• Supply: more properties were pushed to auction — June alone hit 346 scheduled auctions.
• Special stock: mortgagee and High Court sessions add a separate, forced-sale channel to the calendar.
• Definitional lift: counting offers accepted by 5pm the next day raises the effective clearance rate versus hammer-only counts.

The first two factors are visible in the data; the third is a methodology note that applies to every number in this article: read the trend first, then check how “sold” was defined before celebrating a jump.

The catch: the most-cited year-over-year comparison stops at 2021. For the latest June and July figures, the same-period baseline is not in the public top sources.

The gap to close: use the published monthly wraps to track direction, but compare them against the same month last year only when that baseline becomes public.

Which Auckland districts have the highest Barfoot and Thompson auction sales rates?

The district breakdown turns the headline “sold count” into a usable map. In the weekly sample collected by interest.co.nz (property and finance news), clearance rates ran from 20% to 80% depending on the room.

District-by-district breakdown

• 87 properties marketed across the week; 40 sold, a 46% clearance for the week.
• A two-property Shortland Street session cleared 100% on 26 September.
• A mortgagee and High Court session on 27 September cleared 67% — two sales from three properties.

One week, one pattern: central Auckland’s rooms cleared at a different pace than the southern and rural venues.

Watch the sample sizes: two extra sales on the North Shore would have moved that 37% to 46%. Small rooms produce volatile rates.

Top performing areas

• Shortland Street led the week: 12 sales from 15 properties, an 80% clearance on 27 September.
• The North Shore sat mid-pack at 37%, with 9 sales from 24 properties.
• On-site auctions lagged at 20% — one sale from five properties.

Central Auckland’s rooms are clearing while southern and rural rooms leave more stock unsold.

Why sales rates vary

• Property mix: central Auckland skews toward apartments and units; Manukau and Pukekohe bring family homes and rural blocks, which price differently.
• Reserve behavior: vendors in slower rooms hold expectations that do not match bidding.
• Session size: the smaller the room, the wilder the percentage.

None of these are excuses for a low clearance rate. They are the reasons a 25% Pukekohe session and an 80% Shortland Street session can both be true in the same week without either number being wrong.

The trade-off: the district map gives buyers a clear read on demand, but only if they compare like-for-like rooms and like-for-like definitions.

The implication: district-level clearance is a better planning tool than the agency-wide headline.

Who are the Barfoot and Thompson agents?

Once the auction results are in front of you, the next step is practical: find the person who runs the local rooms. Barfoot & Thompson operates branches across Auckland, with agents covering both residential and rural property.

How to find an agent

• The official branch directory lists agents by office, with contact numbers for each branch.
• Published results do not rank agents, so choose on local market knowledge rather than a name on a signboard.
• For auction questions, the branch auction liaison is the right contact before you register.

The official Barfoot & Thompson site is the fastest route to the agent list; each branch page shows the team and its contact details.

Barfoot & Thompson branch locations

• Pukekohe is the branch with the clearest footprint in the recent auction data, covering the southern and rural patch.
• The wider branch network is mapped on the official site, with each office tied to a set of suburbs.

Branch choice matters more at auction than in private sales, because the local team sets reserve guidance and knows who is actually bidding.

Meet the Pukekohe team

• The Pukekohe branch handles residential and rural property, from family homes to lifestyle blocks.
• Pukekohe’s auction session in the sampled week cleared 25% — two sales from eight properties.
• In a small room, the agent’s buyer list is the difference between a pass-in and a post-auction sale.

That last point is not marketing; it is how the 5pm-next-day rule changes outcomes in low-volume rooms. A house that fails under the hammer still has a chance once the agent works the post-auction phone list.

How has auction activity shifted over time?

Three reporting layers run on three clocks: the live room, the weekly tally, and the monthly wrap. The signals line up like this.

• 27 Oct 2021: auction numbers ran higher than the same period a year earlier, with sales rates from 45% to 87% across Auckland sub-districts (QV, cited above).
• Week of 25 September to 1 October: 87 properties marketed, 40 sold, a 46% weekly clearance (interest.co.nz, cited in the district table above).
• June: 346 auctions called, 163 sold, more than $172 million in sales (official reporting, cited above).
• July: 129 sold, 3,923 accepted bids, more than $163 million in sales (official reporting, cited above).
• Rolling: the auction news page publishes a fresh monthly wrap after each month closes.

Volume has stayed high, and the clearance spread has stayed wide. Neither the 2021 benchmark nor the current wraps suggest a thin market; both suggest an uneven one.

The implication: reporting depth has improved, but a true “current versus same time last year” comparison is still a gap buyers have to close themselves.

What’s confirmed, what’s still unclear

Given the mix of official reporting and independent tallies, it helps to separate the confirmed numbers from the gaps.

Read the two lists together. The confirmed column gives the level of activity; the unclear column shows which comparisons are not yet safe to make.

What the sources say

Three voices matter in this market: the agency that runs the rooms, the data firm that reads them, and the tally that checks the math. Here is what each says.

Barfoot & Thompson’s July wrap — the one recording 129 sales and 3,923 accepted bids — led with a short verdict:

“July saw another impressive month in the auction room.”

Barfoot & Thompson updates — Facebook

QV’s reading of the auction market was unambiguous: sales rates ran from 45% in Papakura to 87% in the strongest districts, and auction activity rose across all seven Auckland sub-districts.

QV — independent property data firm

A property counts as sold in interest.co.nz’s weekly methodology only if it sells under the hammer or a sale is confirmed by 5pm the following day.

interest.co.nz — weekly auction methodology

The common thread: all three describe an active market, but each defines “sold” on a slightly different clock.

The takeaway for Auckland buyers and sellers

Strip out the monthly headline and the market looks like a series of rooms with different temperatures. Shortland Street cleared 80% in the sampled week; Manukau and Pukekohe cleared 25%. That is not a contradiction — it is the actual shape of Auckland’s auction market: high volume, wide spread, and a 5pm deadline that turns passed-in properties into sold ones. For Auckland buyers, the decision is clear: track the live room and one independent weekly tally, or bid blind in a market where the clearance gap between districts runs to 60 percentage points.

What this means: the auction page and the weekly tally are the two tools that turn this market into a readable one.

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