Paul Harvey

Paul is an urban qualified Registered Valuer and specialises in the commercial, industrial and residential property sectors. After graduating from Massey University in 1989 with a BBS majoring in Valuation and Property Management, Paul's career has been diverse giving him an extremely broad knowledge of the property industry in New Zealand. Starting as a Property Manager at New Zealand Rail in 1990 he was promoted to being one of their youngest Area Managers until he left for his OE in 1994. On his return Paul joined his father in the old family business where he sold residential/commercial real estate for 3½ years. After completing his Valuation Registration in 2001, Paul then became the General Manager for Harvey's Real Estate, Hawkes Bay, in 2002 where he managed four business branches with over 50 staff until he left in 2006 to set up Williams' Harvey. Paul is the great grandson of the original firm's founder and is the owner and director of Williams' Harvey. Paul is married to Jo and has two children. Paul is a keen road cyclist, however, spends more time around the country trying to keep up with his son who competes in Downhill mountain biking. Valuing property is in the blood and the Harvey name is well known in the Hawke’s Bay region with over four generations of experience and knowledge. Williams' Harvey are Hawke's Bay's leading property valuation service providing independent, expert property advice throughout Hawke's Bay, Central Hawke's Bay and Dannevirke. Our Valuers specialise in all sectors of the property market to make sure you get the very best advice. Contact Details for Paul Harvey E: paulharvey@williamsharvey.co.nz M: 0274 952 209 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-harvey-384b8517

The cost of compliance

It is hard to believe that The Profit is celebrating its 10th birthday and that Williams’ Harvey, has been writing a column for a decade now. I went back over all the articles written and it appears that in a nutshell compliance has been the single biggest change in our sector. Whether in response to economic upheavals such as the...

The Value of Building your own Castle

Anecdotally, despite rising construction and land costs, the existing high house prices have made building a house more attractive relative to buying an existing one. This is not surprising given the amount of subdivisions that have become available such as Frimley, Northwood in Hastings, Arataki in Havelock North and Parklands, Guppy Road and Te Awa in Napier being the bigger...

Revitalising the value of Hastings CBD

Williams’ Harvey undertakes a retail shop occupancy survey of the Central Business District (CBD) of Hastings City. The survey is based on retail shop numbers and considers main street retail, side street retail and overall retail vacancies. Our last survey was completed in October 2018 and recorded 10.20% of the retail space within Hastings to be vacant which equates to...

What will Property Values do in 2019?

2018 was another interesting year in the New Zealand property market. With stable and relatively high volumes Hawke’s Bay values generally showing consistent growth similar to the rest of the country except for Auckland and Christchurch. Without doubt in 2018 our local property market was being impacted by the more macro of government policy and this will continue in 2019....

The value of building your own home

Hawke’s Bay is growing. We can see that by the numerous new infrastructural construction that is going on around us. So, it’s no surprise our region is growing residentially as we need to house a growing population. It is generally accepted that new housing stock is now a vital part of keeping up with a growing New Zealand. So, the...

Commercial property values under fire

From 1 July 2017, the Fire and Emergency New Zealand Act 2017 (FENZ) came into force replacing the Fire Services Levy. The Act replaces the Fire Services Act 1975 and the Forrest & Rural Fire Act 1975. It has been designed to ensure New Zealand has a modern, fit for purpose, and well-funded fire service that addresses long standing issues...

Valuing up the Napier Office Rental Space

Traditionally there has always been an oversupply of secondary office rental space in Napier and Hawke’s Bay in general. Tenants have favoured, new or well renovated office accommodation which has meant that landlords with second tier accommodation have always struggled to attract tenants. However, recent developments in June 2017 saw the Napier City Council identify the council civic buildings as...

The value of a registered valuer

Late last year Napier City Council updated the Rating Valuations (RV) for properties within its Territorial Authority (TA). Also known as Government Valuations (GVs) these property valuations are undertaken every three years and are based on mass appraisal techniques. The values are used primarily for assessing local authority rates and in many cases the subject property has not been inspected....

Changing buyers bring changing values

The ‘leaky homes crisis’ is an ongoing construction and legal predicament in New Zealand. A perfect storm of trending building design features and the use of untreated timber culminated in many homes built between 1994 -2004 that suffered from weather-tightness problems. Hawke’s Bay has its share of homes built in this era but to date there has been relatively little...

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New legislation sets timeline for fixing earthquake prone buildings

It’s an acknowledged fact that New Zealand is prone to seismic activity and ultimately ensuring the safety of people is our priority and our buildings need to be safe for occupants and users alike. As from July 1, 2017 the Building (Earthquake-prone Buildings) Amendment Act 2016 came into effect and the legislation affects owners of earthquake-prone buildings, territorial authorities (TAs),...