NZ housing crisis

Rentvesting

“BUY BUT DON’T LIVE IN IT?” THE PROPERTY HACK AUSSIES AND KIWIS ARE NOW TURNING TO

Housing or Health? It’s an Unacceptable Choice

Matthew Horncastle with his partner Hannah Bungay

“LOVE HIM OR HATE HIM” – The Matthew Horncastle Effect: NZ Property’s Most Polarising Power Player Explodes Into The Spotlight

builders

BUILDING COSTS ARE RISING AGAIN: Is New Zealand’s Construction “Recovery” About to Get Expensive?

Winston Peters

COULD WINSTON PETERS PULL OFF THE ULTIMATE COMEBACK? Why NZ’s Political Shake-Up Might Hand Him the Top Job

Wellington Real Estate agents

“Don’t Talk It Down!” – Why Real Estate Agents Hate Negative Property News

michael boulgaris auckland

“Not One Buyer”: Auckland Agent’s Shocking Weekend Signals Property Market Freeze

New Zealand’s Housing Shock: These Are the Most Affordable — and Most Impossible — Places to Buy a Home

“Kiwis Are Leaving in Droves”: The Hidden Exodus That Could Break New Zealand’s Property Market

Lizzy Ryley

Property Prices SHOCK: NZ Market Dips – But Some Regions BOOM!

RBNZ

OCR CUTS AGAIN: Will More Rate Drops Shake Up NZ’s Housing Market Before Christmas?

capital gains

NZ Housing Market Update: Winter Sales Hold Steady, But Vendors Face Harsh Reality on Prices

The Gold Coast

“We’re Outta Here!”: Record-Breaking Kiwi Exodus to Australia Rocks NZ Economy

Ardern

“Kindness” Can’t Pay the Bills: How Jacinda Ardern’s COVID Legacy Is Still Wrecking Kiwi Businesses

NZ house prices

OPINION: Why New Zealand’s Property Market May NEVER Recover — And What It Means for Future Generations

wealth inequality

OPINION: Jacinda Ardern’s NEW Memoir Won’t Tell You THIS: How She Stuffed New Zealand’s Property Market | WATCH

6% of property resales making a loss | CoreLogic NZ

Tom Panos

10 laws for selling real estate in a time of crisis | WATCH

house prices

World’s ‘frothiest’ housing market (NEW ZEALAND) cools in global warning signal

Flexi House

How this house was built in 13 hours

HOUSING CRISIS: Government cuts funding for a rental scheme

house prices

Homeowners paying for Labour’s mismanagement

house prices

Fearful buyers flee plummeting New Zealand housing market

As Labour again fails to address the housing crisis, our most vulnerable suffer

Kāinga Ora

Underwhelming uptake for First Home Scheme

OECD

HOUSING CRISIS: Faster growth in house prices than any other OECD country

Carmel Sepuloni

Sepuloni pleads ignorance over spending on private rentals

property prices

This is the real crisis facing New Zealand | Property prices increase by 50 per cent in five years

Jacinda Ardern

Govt not being held accountable for housing ‘human rights crisis’

Ricky Houghton

What I really want for Christmas: Ricky Houghton

housing crisis

Can Labour tackle the housing crisis like its lauded party predecessors?

Housing crisis: All eyes on housing market ahead of Reserve Bank’s next report

Beehive

HOUSING CRISIS: NZ the second highest annual price growth in the WORLD

Why we won’t continue to see the mother of all NZ property booms | Lucia Xiao

Photo: 123RF

Pressure on construction work changing way houses are sold

Trade Me Property

Property prices increase by double New Zealand’s average salary

CoreLogic

FULL REPORT: Housing affordability goes from bad to worse | CoreLogic NZ

home ownership

Most Kiwis fear young are being ‘locked out’ of home ownership – SURVEY

First home buyers

HOUSING CRISIS: First homebuyers paying $118k more – QV REPORT

Homeless

‘We are human too’: Homeless man’s emotional plea for compassion during lockdown

CoreLogic

NZ property market is slowing – CoreLogic (WATCH)

House price crash

House prices could drop soon, Reserve Bank predicts | WATCH

interest rate rises

Level 4 COVID restrictions forces the Official Cash Rate to hold at 0.25 percent | WATCH

OCR

‘Blind spot’: Official Cash Rate likely to go on hold due to lockdown

Housing crisis

Housing crisis: Investors blamed for worsening housing affordability in small-town NZ

REINZ

Number of million-dollar-plus property sales more than double in a year

Rental listing

‘Awful’: $400 Wellington property listing demands flatmate leave house six hours a day

Boulevard Motel

Data reveals hundreds living in transitional housing for months on end

Human Rights

Jacinda Ardern dodges questions on whether housing crisis is a human rights crisis

Jacinda Ardern

Jacinda Ardern not convinced by ‘ghost home’ concerns despite data showing 40,000 vacant in Auckland

QV's quartile index

House prices beginning to cool? QV figures show slow in growth

Property Industry

Property industry the biggest contributor to the economy | WATCH

Boulevard Motel

Second Motel Being Purchased In Rotorua

Silverfern properties

Tenant calls now defunct Auckland emergency housing ‘not fit for a dog to live in’

new homes

Govt hopes $136 million investment in Porirua will see 2000 new homes built

housing policies

ACT launches suite of housing policies

Professor John Tookey

‘No silver bullet’ to solving building supply woes – expert | WATCH

Duncan Garner

Duncan Garner: Jacinda, John, Jenny and Helen didn’t build enough state houses

floating rate

Leading bank shaves 2.76 percent off its floating rate for customers wanting to build

affordable housing

Hope of affordable housing ‘lost’ for whole generation

Broker

Broker warns ‘poor will get poorer’

Affordable Housing

CRISIS: NZ Tops The OECD For Least Affordable Housing

Housing crisis

Housing crisis: Prices going up fastest ‘since records began’

Grant Robertson

Finance Minister Grant Robertson says past Governments ‘didn’t plan properly’, leading to housing crisis

house prices

Most Kiwis still don’t think house prices will stop rising – Survey

Hurunui Community Development Trust

Trust wants to sell homes for half the national average

Budget 2021

Budget 2021 fails to make house buying easier for young Kiwis

Housing Minister

Govt urged to ‘pull every lever’ to address housing crisis

NZ residential property market

New Zealand cools its housing market – Finance Report | WATCH

Rotorua emergency housing plan

Rotorua emergency housing plan ‘just the start’ of dealing with the issue

Reserve Bank

Why the Reserve Bank is concerned about New Zealand’s rising house prices

CoreLogic's house price index

CoreLogic House Price Index – values rise by 3.1%, slowdown looms

Marama Davidson

Davidson labels some emergency housing as ‘inhumane’

Housing differences

Housing differences in NZ vs USA: Which is better? | WATCH

John Campbell

John Campbell takes a tour of emergency housing motel, which costs taxpayers thousands a week for one unit | WATCH

wealth inequality

‘Explosion of wealth inequality’ as housing boom leaves many behind – economist

House prices

House prices set to fall

Unaffordable

‘Unsustainable’: Real estate industry says ‘unaffordable’ house price rises have to slow down

official cash rate

Reserve Bank holds official cash rate at record low 0.25 percent

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand

RBNZ Survey: 69% Of Experts Predict Rents Will Rise Under New Housing Policies

David Seymour

New Website To Hear Housing Stories

Femke Burger

It’s Beautiful and Virtually Covid-Free. Just Don’t Try to Buy a House in New Zealand

house prices

Fall in prices ‘possible’ – ASB

New Zealand house prices have soared 16 per cent in past year, a 15-year record | WATCH

NZ house prices

New Zealand house prices have soared 16 per cent in past year, a 15-year record | WATCH

Tiny home

Father and teen son who built tiny home together ready to sell | WATCH

Rents

House prices increase by $100,000 in 12 months

NZ Crisis

You can’t pay your rent with Jacinda’s spin’: ACT, Collins tear down Ardern over rent increase fears

Kiwibank

We’re short 80,000 homes – KIWIBANK | WATCH

landlord tax rules

What happened when the UK changed landlord tax rules

Chinese buyers

Kiwis are behind New Zealand’s runaway house prices. Not buyers from China or Singapore

Housing Package

Explained: Labour’s controversial new housing package | WATCH

Chlöe Swarbrick

Chlöe Swarbrick says landlords crying ‘crocodile tears’ after year of amazing capital gains

house prices

New map shows New Zealand suburbs with fastest rising house prices

NZ government takes bold action to curb soaring house prices

bright-line test

Government removes blanket family home exemption for extended bright-line test

Housing Package

Labour’s housing package naive at best, plain dumb at worst

Kiwibuild Mark II

Judith Collins savages housing package, says Kiwis can’t trust what Government tells them | WATCH

first-home buyers plan

Government announces first-home buyers plan

Ihumātao

Ihumātao deal under scrutiny as Housing Minister Megan Woods accused of using KiwiBuild as ‘slush fund’

NZ Housing Crisis

Record profits reaped by property owners and investors revealed

New Zealand’s property prices are so cooked, Kiwis want to move to Australia for cheap housing

Adrian Orr

Reserve Bank governor Adrian Orr: ‘Absolutely a question mark over house prices’

CoreLogic

New housing market data shows first signs of looming slowdown – Tauranga first to fall

For Sale Sign

LVR rules reinstated but industry skeptical it will cool housing market

housing boom

RBNZ Governor outlines housing direction

New Zealand’s Covid-19 success unleashes runaway housing prices | WATCH

runaway housing prices

New Zealand’s Covid-19 success unleashes runaway housing prices | WATCH

Adrian Orr

Reserve Bank holds OCR at record low 0.25%

NZ Housing Crisis

If You Think NZ Housing’s Bad – You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet! | WATCH

landlords

Quarter of renters who left homes forced out by landlords – study

CoreLogic

Investors seem to have been rushing to beat tighter LVRs | CoreLogic

House prices

Property speculation is inflating the price of houses.

property market

Sizzling property market continues in 2021 as house prices maintain their upward march

NZ housing

Proof that supply is the key driver of our housing crisis | WATCH

Housing crisis

NZ’s housing crisis to get ‘worse and worse’, senior economist warns

landlords

Privacy Commissioner to crackdown on landlords breaching privacy of tenants

housing frenzy

Investors to sell their ‘crap’ houses while housing frenzy lasts – economist

House price rises

Media still covering house price rises as good news

Property Investors

Investors get greedy to take 27% market share of property sales

Mortgage

Mortgage lending at a all time high – up 19% | Reserve Bank

$1million house sales

More properties are selling for over $1 million than ever before, REINZ says | WATCH

Housing crisis

Housing crisis: Is rezoning the answer?

Mobile housing project aims to provide affordable housing option | WATCH

Auckland house buyer

Auckland woman calls for housing ‘system’ shake-up as she struggles to buy first home in hot market

housing crisis

New Zealand housing crisis: Don Brash paints grim picture for future of home ownership