Paul Harvey, Author at The Profit

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

Paul Harvey

The value of history

When Damon told me that this issue of The Profit was going to feature 150 years of Hastings City and look at some of our longest established business, I thought it appropriate to dig into the Harvey family history, as there has been a long association with the Harvey family providing real estate and property valuation services since they stepped...

The Growing Value of Insurance Cover

There is nothing like a natural disaster such as Cyclone Gabrielle to once again have the spotlight shone firmly on ensuring your property is adequately insured in the event of loss and damage. The way Kiwi homes were insured largely changed following the devastation of the Canterbury earthquakes with a shift from guaranteed full replacement or undefined cover to a...

Valuing Hastings CBD – Revitalisation programme reaps rewards

Williams’ Harvey undertakes a retail shop occupancy survey of the Hastings City CBD twice a year in April and September. Undertaking the most recent survey it was apparent that much of what the Hastings District Council (HDC) set out to achieve under the ‘Hastings City Centre Vibrancy Plan’ is coming to fruition. The plan’s key target and outcomes were to...

The Value of Hawke’s Bay Property

In November last year the NZ residential property market was running hot, as it was locally, evidenced from ever increasing values, the peak of which appeared to be in the latter part of last year. One could only wonder how long the upward trend could be sustained especially as there had been no letup in buyer fervour since the end of the first lock-down in 2020....

The Growing Value of Insurance Cover

Recently there has been significant coverage given to the rapid escalation of costs within the New Zealand (NZ) construction sector. It’s no surprise then that this has seen a sharp increase in the cost to build/ rebuild in a comparatively short time frame. However, even if your policy includes an automatic inflation guard to cover annual inflation, your coverage has probably...

The value in being prepared

You would need to be living under a rock in New Zealand if you did not realise the property market is running hot. Against all the predictions and crystal ball gazing buying, selling and developing property went into overdrive as soon as we got out of lockdown last year. Initially, we thought we would have approximately three months of residual...

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The increasing value of ‘SOMO’

The post lockdown activity levels and value growth throughout 2020 was a surprise to all, especially as it was contrary to what most experts and economists predicted. The performance of the residential market during the last quarter of 2020 was simply staggering. Hawke’s Bays’ residential housing values grew 19% during 2020. However, it is not just the precipitous increase in...

Valuing up

The last time I wrote an article for The Profit was about a month after we had got back into the office after ‘Alert Level 3’. As I wrote at the time “So ….. where to from here? If I had a dollar for each time I was asked what affect this will have on future property values I...

The value of volume

The COVID-19 pandemic is a significant event. So ..... where to from here? If I had a dollar for each time I was asked what affect this will have on future property values I could probably retire. Possibly, the more important question should be: What is the impact going to be on volume? Answering this question will probably give a...

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...