Seller Proof Index, July to September 2026: how our campaigns went and how we compare

Every quarter I publish how our team's campaigns went, straight from our own records, and how they compare with the auction rooms around us. The method page shows where every number comes from and how it's worked out. A figure about our own team only goes in if at least 10 homes sit behind it. The one exception is the average number of registered bidders, which comes from our own paper bidder register and is marked as such.

The quarter at a glance

• 53% of our homes sold by auction and 47% by negotiation, for the homes we sold between 1 July and 30 September 2026.
• 77% of our auction campaigns sold on or before auction day. Across the whole AT Realty auction room at Ray White Manukau, ours included, it was 56%, for auction days 1 July to 23 September 2026.
• 80% of our homes that went to auction sold under the hammer, against 60% across the AT Realty auction room, ours included. Auction days 1 July to 23 September 2026.
• Over the last 3 months, starting July 2026, in the 13 weeks where both auction rooms have results, 59.2% of homes taken to auction in the AT Realty auction room sold under the hammer, against 30.7% at Barfoot & Thompson's Highbrook auction rooms. This compares the two auction rooms, not our team.
• 67% of our homes with an advertised date on record sold within 30 days of first being advertised.
• 11.2 registered bidders per auction property on average this quarter, from our own paper bidder register.

Our homes sold

• 19 homes sold between 1 July and 30 September 2026, counting the homes on our published sold list: 10 by auction and 9 by negotiation. By negotiation includes homes that passed in at auction and sold afterwards.
• 21 days was the typical time on the market, from first advertised to an unconditional sale, when the deal becomes firm. That's the middle result across the homes with both dates on record; sales with no first-advertised date in our records aren't counted here.
• 67% of those homes sold within 30 days of first being advertised. The quickest took 7 days and the longest took 83.

How our auctions went

Our campaigns with an auction day between 1 July and 23 September 2026 are counted here, including any that passed in or were withdrawn and had not sold. That was the last auction session in the auction room's records when this report was put together, so any later auction goes into the next edition. As those records stood on 25 September, 77% sold on or before auction day, and 80% of the homes that went to auction on the day sold under the hammer.

How we compare

Every figure in this section comes from auction room results we track ourselves, lot by lot. Each pair is measured the same way, over the same auction days.

Our team and the AT Realty auction room, auction days 1 July to 23 September 2026. The room's figures include ours.

• Sold on or before auction day: our team 77%; the auction room 56%.
• Sold under the hammer, of the homes that went to auction on the day: our team 80%; the auction room 60%.

The AT Realty auction room and Barfoot & Thompson's Highbrook auction rooms, over the last 3 months, starting July 2026, in the 13 weeks where both auction rooms have results. We track both lot by lot ourselves from AuctionsLive, the online system the auction rooms run on. The two cover different areas and different homes, so part of the difference may come from where and what is being sold, not only who is selling it.

• Sold under the hammer, of every home taken to auction on the day, including those that sold afterwards: AT Realty 59.2%; Barfoot & Thompson's Highbrook rooms 30.7%.
• Attracted active bidding, of every home taken to auction on the day: AT Realty 92.8%; Barfoot & Thompson's Highbrook rooms 58.1%. For our own team it was 100%. The two rooms are counted slightly differently, which the method page explains.

Over the same quarter, 80% of our homes taken to auction sold under the hammer and 100% attracted active bidding.

AT Realty's quarter

Our team sells as part of AT Realty, the Ray White franchise that runs the auction room at Ray White Manukau. Ray White's own sales system, Pulse, shows AT Realty agents sold 316 homes with a sale date from 1 July, as it stood on 29 September 2026. A home shared by two AT Realty offices is counted once.

In the AT Realty auction room, 56% of the campaigns with an auction day from 1 July to 23 September sold on or before the day, and 60% of the homes that went to auction sold under the hammer.

Why Pat and why Ray White?

• Registered bidders. Our paper bidder register recorded 11.2 registered bidders per auction property on average this quarter.
• Our success rate. From 1 July to 23 September 2026, 80% of our homes that went to auction sold under the hammer, against 60% across the AT Realty auction room, which includes ours.
• The AT Realty auction room. Over the last 3 months, starting July 2026, in the 13 weeks where both auction rooms have results, 59.2% of homes taken to auction in the AT Realty auction room sold under the hammer, against 30.7% at Barfoot & Thompson's Highbrook auction rooms. That compares the two rooms, not our team.

Results by suburb group, last 12 months

One quarter is too few sales to split by area, so this part covers 12 months, 1 October 2025 to 30 September 2026. Our sold list has 80 homes sold in that time.

• Māngere, Māngere East, Māngere Bridge and Favona: 19 sold, 9 by auction and 10 by negotiation. Typical time on the market 21 days, across the homes with both dates recorded.
• Manurewa, Clendon Park, Randwick Park, Weymouth, Alfriston and Totara Park: 22 sold, 9 by auction and 13 by negotiation. Typical time on the market 28 days.
• Papatoetoe, Ōtara, Clover Park and Wiri: 15 sold, 5 by auction and 10 by negotiation. Typical time on the market 21 days.
• Papakura, Opaheke, Karaka and Glenbrook: 10 sold, 1 by auction and 9 by negotiation.
• Further afield, from Manukau and Flat Bush to Onehunga, Point Chevalier and Henderson: 14 sold, 3 by auction and 11 by negotiation.

For Papakura and the rural south, and for our sales further afield, fewer than 10 homes have both dates recorded, so there's no typical time on the market for them.

If you're selling

These are our results, not a promise about yours. Your street, the condition of the home and the market on the day all move the outcome. If you'd like to talk through how I'd run the campaign for your home, book a free appraisal.

Sources: our team's sold list and our own listing records; auction results for the AT Realty auction room at Ray White Manukau, tracked by us lot by lot from the auction system and last captured on 25 September 2026; our own auction records for the comparison with Barfoot & Thompson's Highbrook auction rooms, tracked the same way and read as they stand today; Ray White Pulse for AT Realty's sales, as at 29 September 2026; and our own paper bidder register. Snapshot taken 1 October 2026. No sale prices and no agency's own published statistics are used. Full method: [Seller Proof Index method](/insights/seller-proof-index-method). Ray White AT Realty Limited, Licensed REAA 2008.