Property Noise Group (Page 74)

Property Update

homes.co.nz Monthly Property Update – June 2019

Barfoot & Thompson

Barfoot & Thompson fails in meth claim against tenant

Joseph Ngo and Judy Nguyen

AUSTRALIA: Shifty Melbourne property agent jailed

Airbnb

Airbnb lines Kiwi pockets

Ponsonby

Dancing granny’s run-down Ponsonby villa sold to local family

property developer

Wellington property developer Lance James defends charges

Fletcher Living

Fletcher Living homes in central Christchurch struggle to find buyers

Santa Clarita Diet

Santa Clarita Diet: Real Estate Agents -Netflix

KiwiBuild

KiwiBuild pre-approved applicants list raises eligibility questions

mortgagee sale

Central Auckland mortgagee sale

Bindi Norwell

Guide to what landlords can ask is withdrawn by Privacy Commissioner

Central Otago

Controversial 900-lot development proposal battles opposition in Central Otago

heritage homes

Hobsonville officers’ houses ripe for Block-style makeover

Colliers

New Katikati office expands Colliers’ rural and agribusiness offering

Peter Wolfkamp

The Block NZ: At home with Peter Wolfkamp

earthquake excesses

Could homeowners face ‘earthquake excesses’ on house insurance?

Purchasing a home

Aussies don’t want to buy home with spouse

West Mount Cotton Road

AUSTRALIA: Innovative property video of the week (WATCH)

Auckland

Trading up has got a bit cheaper over the past year

apartments

Big dreams in small spaces

Mōkau Butchery

New owner for New Zealand’s most remote butchery, and its secret sausage recipe

tiny house

Homeless after tiny house dispute

multi-million estate

Catholic father writes five of his six children out of multi-million estate over religious differences

Ellen DeGeneres

CELEBRITY: Adam Levine and Ellen DeGeneres make music in the housing market

council delays

Consents aren’t turning into houses, new data shows

Japanese property

INTERNATIONAL: Japanese property on a roll as Chinese grow weary of traditional hotspots Vancouver, Sydney

Queenstown

Australians eye up property in Central Otago-Lakes region

Conor English

English cut from $5m deal

SkyCity hotel

SkyCity hotel plans advance

Buy vs Rent

Here’s where you’re better to buy than rent

NZIA

Best of old and new celebrated in NZIA Canterbury Architecture Awards

Barfoot & Thompson

Auckland Reverts To More Traditional Housing Sales Cycle

Jeff Bezos

INTERNATIONAL: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos reportedly drops $121m on a trio of New York condos

AREC

The best of the best on show at AREC’s Australasian Auctioneering Competition

Wellington

Unique homes to be bowled

earthquake damage

Detecting earthquake damage

Tenancy Tribunal

Landlord ordered to pay $177k

Larry Ellison

INTERNATIONAL: Here’s a look at Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison’s incredible real estate portfolio

Real estate agents

‘Real estate agents have to work harder’

forest land

NI forest land doubles in price

Jessica Alba

CELEBRITY: Inside Jessica Alba’s $10M Los Angeles Home | Open Door | Architectural Digest (Watch)

The Block NZ Firehouse

The Block NZ: Now we know who’s in to win, which is the team to watch?

Wellington’s fastest rising suburb revealed

The Block

The Block – what’s out back?

real estate startup

INTERNATIONAL: This real estate startup is aiming to flip homes with help from Uber drivers

Tall Poppy

Tall Poppy launches BombBomb in NZ

Wellington landlord

A Wellington landlord wanted a share of their tenant’s brothel business profit.

Overseas Investment Office

Secret price deals revealed

KiwiSaver

450,000 people have been paying wrong rate of tax on KiwiSaver and other investments, IRD discovers

Harvey's Real Estate

Real estate agent censured after allowing seller to conceal renovations completed without consent

Retirement village

Retirement village building multiplies

Michael Davoren

Lessons from Purplebricks: A New Zealand perspective

Bindi Norwell

Government forestry incentives see forestry farm prices increase by 45%, says REINZ

real estate brokerage

INTERNATIONAL: Class-action case could upend residential real estate brokerage business

CoreLogic Pain & Gain Report

Pain & Gain Report New Zealand Quarter 1, 2019 – CORELOGIC

residential tenancy agreement

Woman ordered to pay aunt $21,600 in rent after assuming grandmother left her home in will

Ray White real estate agent, Sonya Treloar.

AREC 2019: Volume will correct a correcting market (Australia)

Lisa Totaro

Million-dollar agents: The future is female

Property Prices

AUSTRALIA: Property Prices Fall Least in a Year as Slide Eases

Queenstown

$1m for average Queenstown home

House prices

House prices expected to fall

Pio Terei

Pio Terei wants you to build a tiny house

commissions

INTERNATIONAL: Buying or selling a home? A new lawsuit could change how much you pay the Realtor

AUSTRALIA: ‘Brisbane’s worst house’ sells under the hammer for $253,000

apartment owners

Wellington apartment owners seek details for quake-prone buildings fund

Westpac

Terrifying mortgage threat shows dangers of making minimum repayments

sub-letting

$50,000 bill for illegal sub-letting

AFR Rich List 2019

AUSTRALIA: AFR Rich List 2019

Tony Soprano

INTERNATIONAL: Tony Soprano’s House Hits the Market

KiwiBuild

Has Govt realised KiwiBuild not the answer?

CGT

NZ First ‘killed off’ CGT

RE/MAX

RE/MAX Principal sheds locks for cancer foundation

AUSTRALIA: Shane Warne and Sam Newman buy into Saint Moritz development

Queenstown

Traffic risk to Qtown expansion

Birkdale

This beautiful renovation is a lesson in what you can achieve on a budget

Davis Love III

CELEBRITY: Why Won’t Anyone Buy PGA Champ Davis Love III’s Gorgeous Georgia Property?

Australian property market

Australian property market: Home loan applications at highest level in six months

real estate fortune

INTERNATIONAL: A real estate fortune built on a foundation of forged deeds and tangled titles

mortgage repayments

Here’s how you can slash hundreds of thousands of dollars from your mortgage

Homes selling

Homes selling at a loss

Tiny House

WATCH: Our Urban Tiny House In New Zealand

School property

Budget NZ 2019: School property gets a $1.2 billion investment plan

Low interest rates

Low interest rates ‘will fuel economy’

giga-mansion

INTERNATIONAL: Is LA in a giga-mansion glut?

LVRs

LVRs to remain unchanged – Reserve Bank

Kiwi dream

Apartment appeal grows in Auckland

insulation

Property investors ‘won’t all hit insulation deadline’

Anna Coddington

At my place with musician Anna Coddington

Mortgage free

Mortgage free at 28

industrial properties

Craft brewers find new uses for old industrial properties

housing market

Is housing market going to crash?

residential portfolio

Big residential portfolio up for grabs

Howard & Co – Kapiti Coast Real Estate Company going from strength to strength

New Plymouth

New Plymouth development aims to bring neighbours together

Christchurch suburb

Insurance puzzle leaves immaculate Christchurch character home unsellable

real estate agent

AUSTRALIA: Former real estate agent pleads guilty to misappropriating client deposits

Holiday house

Holiday house of Kiwi author Katherine Mansfield for sale, hoped to become writers retreat

sex work

$50 rent rise for heat pump ‘pushed me into sex work’

Auckland Council

House prices could rise after vote

Hawke's Bay property

Arrest threat off for now

Te Omanga Hospice

Plenty of interest from social housing providers for former Lower Hutt hospice

Hamilton

103 inquiries in two days: Hamilton has Trade Me’s most popular rental for April

One Agency

ONE AGENCY’S STRONG START TO 2019

RE/MAX

RE/MAX REVOLUTION IS NEW ZEALAND’S TOP PERFORMER

First National

First National Real Estate honours top achievers at General Excellence and Marketing Awards

Wellington’s property market

Wellington City Council’s $1 a year lease deals kept secret

emergency housing

$23m for emergency housing

police headquarters

From cop shop to health hub

trademe-property

Weekly rent cracks $500 for the first time

Tenancy Tribunal

Auckland landlord ordered to pay out after ‘splattering’ raw sewage through yard

mortgage-free

First house – mortgage-free

BEL AIR

INTERNATIONAL: Most Insane Pool in the World (Watch)

real estate agent

INTERNATIONAL: Father of murdered B.C. real estate agent taking case to Dr. Phil show

real estate scam

INTERNATIONAL: Florida family loses $77,000 in real estate scam

KiwiBuild

Flagship KiwiBuild policy in tatters as PM refuses to speak its name

Yarrow Stadium

Legal opinions could influence outcome of Yarrow Stadium repair controversy

Summerfield Villas

Gang man moves in

Tall Poppy humanises digital communication

Landlord

Landlord ‘interfered’ with water

Cranmer Gardens

Luxury build restarts as Parker bows out

NSW real estate agents

AUSTRALIA: More than $130,000 in fines issued to NSW real estate agents in only four months

Bowen House

Tower quake risk

Sally Ridge

Sally Ridge awarded $33,000 in court costs over Auckland property