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TERRY SEREPISOS

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over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
TERRY SEREPISOS
over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
BREAKING NEWS!
Terry Serepisos gives his first interview since the negative publicity in The Dominon Post last week on Martin Devlin's DEVLIN ON SPORT on RadioLIVE this afternoon.
Terry will be on the show at 2.20pm.
Devlin is on air from 2pm-6pm.
 
* To listen back to the interview, go to www.radiolive.co.nz, go to audio and start listening from Saturday in the 2.125pm block.
 
 
DEVLIN PRODUCER2010-10-02 14:25:14
over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
here's the link

http://www.radiolive.co.nz/Terry-Serepisos/tabid/506/articleID/16521/Default.aspx
over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
good work El Tel

Founder

over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Have i missed it or isnt it happening.Read it you bloody fool
ballane2010-10-02 16:44:46

GET YOUR SHIRTS OFF FOR THE BOYS

over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Was a pretty good interview, Terry sounds pretty fired up!

www.kiwifromthecouch.blogspot.com

over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Great interview.
Martin asks the question does this sell papers or put people off buying them?
One or two on the acc forum have said before they won't be buying their papers.
 I for one will not only NOT buy their paper but I will avoid ever clicking on any ad link from any on-line page i view of theirs too. its a small gesture but others who feel as strongly might consider the same.

  Improving,,on the up, a work in progress from Italiano and the Nix. Bring on the bathroom bling in '24! COYN!

over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
RedGed wrote:
Great interview.
One or two on the acc forum have said before they won't be buying their papers.
 
 
who the f**k hangs around on an ACC forum??????????

All I do is make the stuff I would've liked
Reference things I wanna watch, reference girls I wanna bite
Now I'm firefly like a burning kite
And yousa fake fuck like a fleshlight

over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
sickness beneficiaries, people who don't want to work, other bludgers...

"Phoenix till they lose"

Posting 97% bollox, 8% lies and 3.658% genuine opinion. 

Genuine opinion: FTFFA

over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Frankie Mac wrote:
RedGed wrote:
Great interview.One or two on the acc forum have said before they won't be buying their papers.�


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who the f**k hangs around on an ACC forum??????????


van Persie.

Three for me, and two for them.

over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Bloody looking forward to the ASB Phoenix challenge! Lord Ranfurly is old hat- this should be good- two Phoenix games in one week....awesome


over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I listened to this interview.

That is all.

Central Hawkes Bay Nix
and tragic follower of Charlton Athletic 
over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
RedGed wrote:
Great interview.Martin asks the question does this sell papers or put people off buying them?One or two on the acc forum have said before they won't be buying their papers.�I for one will not only NOT buy their paper but I will avoid ever clicking on any ad link from any on-line page i view of theirs too. its a small gesture but others who feel as strongly might consider the same.
I regularly buy the friday dom post and occasionally other days but am also boycotting. Patience ran dry with some of the piece of sh*t articles relating to TS. Blatantly just trying to sell papers. Not 'buying into it'.

Fuck this stupid game

over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

anyone wanna summarise the interview? Or is there an article about it out there anywhere?

over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Devlin asked some questions.  Terry answered them.
over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Good to hear Terry, sounds bullish (I mean that in a good way).
I wish though that he had fronted for the conference earlier this week rather than let his accountant be in front o fthe media. It is not a good look when Terry doesnt show up .
 
Wouldnt it have been better for him to front up and say that the club is financially sound (which is what he said to Devlin) than not show up at all.
over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Yep - nix management did themselves no favours with that "interview" with the accountant looking a bit nervous and unable to answer questions and Mitchell seeming quite shifty with fob off answers.

"Phoenix till they lose"

Posting 97% bollox, 8% lies and 3.658% genuine opinion. 

Genuine opinion: FTFFA

over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Frankie Mac wrote:
RedGed wrote:
Great interview.
One or two on the acc forum have said before they won't be buying their papers.
 
 
who the f**k hangs around on an ACC forum??????????


Fair cop.meant thread.arf!
RedGed2010-10-03 22:49:21

  Improving,,on the up, a work in progress from Italiano and the Nix. Bring on the bathroom bling in '24! COYN!

over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Wouldn't work for me in chrome when I tried, had to use IE so try that if your not already.
over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
terry telling it like it is.......

Queenslander 3x a year.

over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Looking through Beatles music (Lennon - not Aaron - been in the news) and thought this would be apt for Terry & his subbies & ACC & WCC & & & &

"You never give me your money;
You only give me your funny paper ,
And in the middle of negotiations you break down .
I never give you my number;
I only give my situation,
And in the middle of investigation I break down."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZz-2aKaYzA

"Phoenix till they lose"

Posting 97% bollox, 8% lies and 3.658% genuine opinion. 

Genuine opinion: FTFFA

almost 4 years ago
So let me get this straight. 

Serepisos went bankrupt following the GFC. He has now repurchased Century Hotel (presumably on significant debt), at a time were global interest rates are rising, property prices are on the verge of collapse, we have persistently high consumer price inflation and supply-side shocks, etc. In other words, the current era is eerily familiar to the early contagion period of the GFC.

So this could lead him to going bankrupt, again...? Risky time to buy commercial real estate on leverage is all I'm saying...
almost 4 years ago
Ninja
So let me get this straight. 

Serepisos went bankrupt following the GFC. He has now repurchased Century Hotel (presumably on significant debt), at a time were global interest rates are rising, property prices are on the verge of collapse, we have persistently high consumer price inflation and supply-side shocks, etc. In other words, the current era is eerily familiar to the early contagion period of the GFC.

So this could lead him to going bankrupt, again...? Risky time to buy commercial real estate on leverage is all I'm saying...
 A lot of that building is residential, which remains in high demand in Wellington. But I will be watching on with interest. I'm sure the banks will as well

Valley FC til I die?

almost 4 years ago
Nelfoos
Ninja
So let me get this straight. 

Serepisos went bankrupt following the GFC. He has now repurchased Century Hotel (presumably on significant debt), at a time were global interest rates are rising, property prices are on the verge of collapse, we have persistently high consumer price inflation and supply-side shocks, etc. In other words, the current era is eerily familiar to the early contagion period of the GFC.

So this could lead him to going bankrupt, again...? Risky time to buy commercial real estate on leverage is all I'm saying...
 A lot of that building is residential, which remains in high demand in Wellington. But I will be watching on with interest. I'm sure the banks will as well

Some brave bank or money lender must have thought it was a good idea!

Oi Oi Edgecumbe... lets have a clean sheet

almost 4 years ago
Now, is the Auckland AL franchise looking for an owner?

Oi Oi Edgecumbe... lets have a clean sheet

almost 4 years ago
Nelfoos
Ninja
So let me get this straight. 

Serepisos went bankrupt following the GFC. He has now repurchased Century Hotel (presumably on significant debt), at a time were global interest rates are rising, property prices are on the verge of collapse, we have persistently high consumer price inflation and supply-side shocks, etc. In other words, the current era is eerily familiar to the early contagion period of the GFC.

So this could lead him to going bankrupt, again...? Risky time to buy commercial real estate on leverage is all I'm saying...
 A lot of that building is residential, which remains in high demand in Wellington. But I will be watching on with interest. I'm sure the banks will as well


How bankrupt was he really though?  I saw him several months after the bankruptcy announcement hiring the Penthouse at SkyCity Grand Hotel
almost 4 years ago
Degenerate
Nelfoos
Ninja
So let me get this straight. 

Serepisos went bankrupt following the GFC. He has now repurchased Century Hotel (presumably on significant debt), at a time were global interest rates are rising, property prices are on the verge of collapse, we have persistently high consumer price inflation and supply-side shocks, etc. In other words, the current era is eerily familiar to the early contagion period of the GFC.

So this could lead him to going bankrupt, again...? Risky time to buy commercial real estate on leverage is all I'm saying...
 A lot of that building is residential, which remains in high demand in Wellington. But I will be watching on with interest. I'm sure the banks will as well


How bankrupt was he really though?  I saw him several months after the bankruptcy announcement hiring the Penthouse at SkyCity Grand Hotel

He was as bankrupt as required to be. He was smart enough to have a lot of his cash and assets not listed under his name but other business and entities which he had limited responsibility (liability) for. Bankruptcy only really stopped him being a director of any new companies and that the current bankrupt company had to cease trading. He's clear of that now and got funding from an aussie bank to buy "his" hotel back. 

Queenslander 3x a year.

almost 4 years ago · edited almost 4 years ago · History
I don't know enough about the business world to know how I feel about this... if he never intentially did anything shady/fraudulent to fudge people over, and it was just a case of over leveraging while trying to make more money then I still like the guy and hope he gets back to being a rich bastard who can own football clubs!
almost 4 years ago · edited almost 4 years ago · History
He had a reputation for not paying, a lot of the cash-flow problems he had came from the fact that his sub-contractors would only work for him if he paid up front because they knew if they didn't it would be a fight to get the money out of him.

He was trading while insolvent and spending millions on the Nix even though he couldn't even pay the guy who was cleaning his pool (literally), let alone all the tradespeople he didn't pay, as well as the millions he owed to the IRD.

He took a lot of people down with him, but afterwards was still driving his jaguar and going on overseas holidays whereas the people who worked for him lost everything.

If he tries to make a comeback as a property developer he's going to struggle as there won't be a lot of trust in him from the industry.
almost 4 years ago
He went bust following the GFC. 

I feel like real estate investors have no understanding of the macroeconomy or monetary policy. We are in a global interest rate tightening cycle, where central banks are withdrawing liquidity for the financial system. We just had negative GDP growth in the last quarter in New Zealand. If the next GDP quarter print is negative, we are 'technically-speaking' in a recession. All the while we have somewhat record-high consumer price inflation. A recession + high inflation = Stagflation.

This is, in my humble opinion, a terrible time to buy property - whether residential or commercial. I feel like property markets have a way to go in terms of price declines, and we are already starting to see the signs of this in New Zealand. It could get very ugly.

This comment is not necessarily to do with Terry Serepisos. I don't know much about him, I'm sure he's a decent guy. I'm grateful that he funded the Phoenix initially, and will always be appreciative of that. However, IMO this is a very very rough time to leverage up and buy very expensive real estate.