Alistair Helm

Experienced business leader, digital product specialist; aspiring quant! living the life in the beautiful Wairarapa

[Alistair Helm @AlistairNZ]

Clearly been a busy week at the Retirement Villages Assoc - actively moved to challenge the Stuff opinion piece on retirement living. Open letter signed by committees representing 410 of the 445 villages across NZ representing 50,000 residents

[RNZ News @rnz_news]

Retirement home residents 'reject ill-informed commentary' - open letter https://t.co/om2UKVSFBU

[Alistair Helm @AlistairNZ]

Another week and another excellent data analysis from @NewsLambert - just knew I needed to provide the same analysis for NZ regions to highlight the post Covid movements in house price index

[Lance Lambert @NewsLambert]

#NEW Zillow home price data for America's 30 largest housing markets

1. MoM (month over month)
2. YTD (year to date)
3. Down from peak
4. YoY (year over year)
5. Change since March 2020
6. Pandemic Housing Boom gains at peak

Seasonally adjusted, through March 2023

[Alistair Helm @AlistairNZ]

Smart move - perfect timing at bottom of market as struggling agents question future. Disrupt the cosy 5 dominant players who hold c. 80% of the market. Don’t hold your breath tho for new model - still be commission based IMO

[Anne Gibson @anneherald]

Giant Sydney-headquartered real estate agency Raine & Horne coming to New Zealand https://t.co/RUVV86JPBx

[Alistair Helm @AlistairNZ]

Most impressed with this US House Price Index datavisualisation & naturally wondered if there was a NZ version? - might as well do it myself!

[Lance Lambert @NewsLambert]

After 6 straight month-over-month declines, U.S. home price growth as measured by the seasonally adjusted Zillow Home Value Index turned positive in March.

[Alistair Helm @AlistairNZ]

Long time since I retweeted a real estate listing video - as stated in Charles tweet, a video you will never forget. My hope is that NZ real estate agents don’t get inspired to replicate this approach to video marketing!

[Charles Arthur @charlesarthur]

You may regret watching the video but you will never forget it.

[Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis]

Very good analysis by @davekarpf of the likely paths to bankruptcy for Twitter & Musk. I agree it will come and then the lenders will end up getting it for $13b, a much saner price than the one Musk paid.

How long does Twitter have left?, by @davekarpf https://t.co/aJa4tdFtD9

[Alistair Helm @AlistairNZ]

Exactly the same experience, answered first one same intro

[Business Unions 🚀 @Business_Unions]

10 Most Creative Marketing Campaigns of All Time:

1. Fiat, 2016

[Alistair Helm @AlistairNZ]

UK in financial meltdown!?

[Charles Arthur @charlesarthur]

There’s a woman on BBC Question Time who was trying to get a mortgage, and the previous offer of 4.5% was pulled; now the best offer is 10.5%. #bbcqt
Deathly silence falls across the (mostly Conservative voting) audience.

[Alistair Helm @AlistairNZ]

@lawgeeknz I looked into this a year or so ago - bought a piece of hardwear which was useless. Gave up and sent the tapes to FilmScan in Lower Hutt, highly recommend, they were great, fast turnaround and a memory stick with hi res copies

[Alistair Helm @AlistairNZ]

How about one of @realestateconz @TradeMe @oneroofnz @HomesNZ producing a report such as this to provide real insight into the lead indicators of the property market instead of constantly talking to the lag indicator of price - standout from the crowd someone and provide insight

[Redfin @Redfin]

The share of homes with price drops keeps climbing to new heights.

"I think the power will continue to shift towards buyers, resulting in mild price declines from month to month," says our Chief Economist @FairweatherPhD.

[Alistair Helm @AlistairNZ]

@dairymanNZ @dimsie Had the Ecovacs Deebot T9 for a year now - love it, bought from Godfreys

[Alistair Helm @AlistairNZ]

Bernard - you are bloody legend. Your plans for the continued growth of The Kaka are a true reflection of the person you are - committed, dedicated, professional and transparent. Proud to be a subcriber!

Oh yes - clearly I was referring to @bernardchickey

[Alistair Helm @AlistairNZ]

“1 bedroom unit” delivers more page views and shorter days on market. There you go!

[Alistair Helm @AlistairNZ]

Thanks for those you voted - I was surprised by the result which ended up inconclusive, I thought the opinion would favour no difference

[Alistair Helm @AlistairNZ]

Background to this survey is that I’ve just done some analysis of listings of retirement units for sale and interesting there is difference in both page views and days on the market. Using a more inspiring headline like “great lifestyle” “live the life” as compared to

[Alistair Helm @AlistairNZ]

Do you think the headline an agent uses on a home for sale listing makes any difference to the performance of a listing (pages viewed or enquiries) or even the speed of sale??

[Alistair Helm @AlistairNZ]

@barnaclebarnes @moirathemaori That should be 4 actually with stream, rivers, lakes and the ocean as all are connected and interconnected

[Alistair Helm @AlistairNZ]

@barnaclebarnes @moirathemaori In my opinion both require appropriate attention, however processed water needs capital investment and this is what has been so sorely lacking, added to which is competent people to manage infrastructure at scale, that skill has been sadly lacking for all but a handful of regions

[Alistair Helm @AlistairNZ]

@ChrisKeall Yes - but so much easier to consume on audible