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How Hills Real Estate traders made $5.4m by flipping 71 Auckland properties

Ben Leahy
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Reporter·NZ Herald·
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How Hills Real Estate traders made $5.4m by flipping 71 Auckland properties
How Hills Real Estate traders made $5.4m by flipping 71 Auckland properties

A Herald analysis goes inside $60 million of sales by one of NZ’s biggest property traders to reveal the buy and sell prices from each of the 71 deals and the traders’ investment philosophy.

  • Hills Real Estate-linked traders made an estimated $5.4m capital gain from “flipping” - buying and rapidly reselling - 71 Auckland homes at an average $76,000 per property.
  • The traders bought homes for about $54m and resold them for nearly $60m in 2021 and 2024.
  • Some of the flipped homes involved trading companies selling the same property to each other up to nine times in quick succession - sometimes on the same day.
  • Critics say the practice drives house prices up, but Hills Real Estate director Rickhil Prakash says his team risks making losses and his customers are happy.

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