Property Noise Group (Page 75)

farm debt mediation scheme

Bank powers to be reeled in over farm debt foreclosures

Apartment owners

Apartment owners lose $200k

Kiwibuild home

Kiwibuild home on market for second time

Mapping the Market: NZ’s property market: Back to the Future.

power transformer

Couple wins battle against transformer that appeared on edge of their dream property

Mortgages

Low-deposit first home buyers helping to boost overall lending flows

House tour

House tour season a super success

Australia

Australia’s Property Slump Drives Biggest Wealth Drop in 7 Years

Invercargill

Deep south demolition job

Director Peter Jackson

Filmmaker Sir Peter Jackson takes Wellington Mayor Justin Lester to task over Shelly Bay

Body corporate

Body corporate manager broke law

cheap houses

Nine New Zealand houses sold under $150,000 in past 12 months

Tenancy Tribunal

Renter’s $4k for cold, damp flat

Pete Evans

CELEBRITY: Chance to live in Pete Evans’ pad

Ed Sheeran

CELEBRITY: Ed Sheeran turns property magnate by spending £42MILLION on homes, flats and a restaurant over past seven years

Don Ha

RE/MAX Revolution expands in New Zealand

Real estate agent

Real estate agent fined $6000 and censured for conflict of interest

Unwanted houses

Unwanted houses abound

Property Market

AUSTRALIA: Australian Property Values Fell $133 Billion Last Quarter (WATCH)

Recession

AUSTRALIA: Will real estate debt ignite a recession?

Real Estate agent

Real Estate agent blocked and misled potential buyer in favour of own client

Cladding firm

Cladding firm in liquidation

properazzi

The Future Looks Bright for Trade Me Property as it Casts a Darkening Shadow over Realestate.co.nz

first-home buyers

Doors open to first-home buyers

Bella Vista

Council failed on Bella Vista – report

Debt Crisis

WATCH: Australia & New Zealand Debt Crisis 2019-2020

Selling Sunset

INTERNATIONAL: ‘Selling Sunset’: Producer Behind Netflix’s First Docusoap on the State of Reality TV

power bills

House with zero power bills

Petone

Rising sea hasn’t sunk market

UK property

Brexit effect on UK property: People renting longer, less confidence in traditionally stable market

Marewa house

House fight: Former bankrupt seeks to administer estate with imprisoned brother

real estate agents

$20,000 in fines after buyers given wrong information about timber, pool

property report

WATCH: The CoreLogic Monthly Property & Economic Update for March 2019

Christchurch mansion

Insurer Tower told it can’t make Christchurch mansion owner pay $400k interest

Wellington hits new record while property prices cool in Auckland

heritage villa

Rundown villa’s expert makeover

Petone church

Century-old Petone church restored video

Auckland suburbs

Where have the affordable suburbs gone?

Marcus Lush

Marcus Lush – the proud owner of a “Gorse Farm”

MAFS

AUSTRALIA: MAFS themed real estate sign goes viral

Mortgages

Decline in new investor mortgages

housing industry

INTERNATIONAL: The lawyers who took on Big Tobacco are aiming at Realtors and their 6% fee

Ron Sang

Ron Sang remodel remodelled

Paul Davie

Real Estate Agents lose jobs over race posts

Grey Lynn drops out of Top 10 list of Auckland’s highest sale volume suburbs, says REINZ

ona Vale Surf Life Saving Club.

From Chch to Aussie

real estate deposits

INTERNATIONAL: Woman accused of posing as real estate agent, pocketing deposits

Flintstone house

INTERNATIONAL: California’s ‘Flintstones House’ declared a public nuisance by town authorities

alleged gunman

Accused gave landlord notice

real estate giant

INTERNATIONAL: A Chinese real estate giant is racing with carmakers to bring electric cars to the market

Elizabeth Galley

No place to call home

Devonport church

Devonport church conversion

Housing New Zealand

Government moots deal to build up to 300 homes on Wellington’s Arlington complex

Cayman Apartment Building

Million dollar apartments in Tauranga may have had Code of Compliance issued in error

Freemans Bay villa

Rundown Freemans Bay villa sold to former local boy, for $1.16m

Real Estate Billionaires

INTERNATIONAL: China Has 58% of World’s Real Estate Billionaires, Leaving U.S. Far Behind

hotel

Consent for 380-room hotel

Baby Boomer

Get set for Baby Boomer property sell-off

Wellington

Wellington house sales held up by insurance

Te Puke tenants

Leak in rental ‘like a waterfall’

real estate agent

Did my real estate agent rip me off?

Bankrupted builder

Bankrupted builder pleads guilty to charges involving $300K in unpaid tax deductions

Bella Vista homes

Bella Vista homes cut in half

new housing standards

Real estate agents fear effects of insurance difficulties in capital

tennis stadium

$5.5m approved for tennis stadium

real estate agent

Not a great time to be a real estate agent

KiwiBuild

Home no-one wanted in KiwiBuild

house hunting

INTERNATIONAL: Wells Fargo patents house hunting with an autonomous car

residential properties

February a lean month for real estate agents, new data shows

social living experiment

Architect friends talk about their ‘social living experiment’ 10 years on

Number of houses sold across NZ falls by 9.5% in February, says REINZ

hotel sale prices

Secret Wellington and Auckland hotel sale prices revealed in new report

national park land

New national park land

IAG Insurance

IAG turning down new property insurance in Wellington region

meth house

Meth house sale ‘as is, where is’

Auckland

Auckland remains a patchy market

Instagram

INTERNATIONAL: 5 Luxury Real Estate Brokers Who Are Killing It On Instagram

American Chopper

CELEBRITY: Why Won’t Anyone Buy ‘American Chopper’ Star Paul Teutul’s Compound?

Public land

Public land turned private

Uber driver

A real estate agent who indecently assaulted a boy while working as an Uber driver has lost his battle against deportation to India.

remote bach

Most remote bach is ‘calling’

Ron Sang

Ron Sang-designed house and NZ contemporary art collection for sale

landlords

Landlord’s call to scare tenants into not voting for Labour

real estate agent

Cash-strapped agent censured

container house

‘Life Box’ container house sold at auction, raising money for cancer charity

Property mogul

INTERNATIONAL: Property mogul Harry Macklowe recently wed his long-term mistress — and didn’t miss the chance to rub it in his ex-wife’s face.

NAR

INTERNATIONAL: NAR campaign distinguishes Realtors from other real estate agents

sex offender

Property manager told ‘predatory’ sex offender wasn’t a risk to anyone

corelogic

There’s still some heat left in the NZ property market, but not in Auckland

Tenancy Tribunal

Tenants stop landlords building garage

nasty house

‘Humiliated’ in the ‘nasty house’

Household Debt

NZ’s household debt levels are reaching terrifying heights

Phoenix company for Arrow project

Wallace Development

Here come the houses

apartments

Wynyard Quarter: Multi-million dollar apartments launched

capital gain

People are pocketing $250k on average when they sell a house

Australia’s economy

Australia’s economy has just slid into a recession on a per-capita basis

Queenstown development

Buyers might get a bargain at Queenstown development

Trade Me website

Trade Me: More opportunity to poach print advertising

quake-prone buildings

Concern over quake-prone buildings

CoreLogic

Homeowners pocket median resale profit of $195K each last quarter: a 20 year high.

Alexandra Park Village

Apartment buyers in limbo

Twitter

Property TWEETS of the week (March 5, 2019)

Ebert

Ebert subbies miss out on money

Piha

Most-viewed house on Trade Me

Jennifer Lopez

CELEBRITY: Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez buy Jeremy Piven’s Malibu pad

Cambridge

Cambridge dairy farmer fined record $131,840 for effluent discharges

Nobilo

Waimarie property still listed while Nobilo seeks to refinance

churches for sale

8 former churches for sale

apartments

Application lodged to transform Lower Hutt’s Avalon Tower into apartments

meth

Tenant to pay $4300 for meth contamination

55 Courageous Court, Newport

AUSTRALIA: Incomplete house the hottest in the country right now

Auckland Property

Auckland: A buyer’s market

Billionaire

The fence the billionaire built

Real Estate Agents

Glamour of real estate wheeling and dealing fades, disenchanted agents on job hunt

Property investors

Property investors, not first home buyers, snap up affordable homes: NZIER

property investment

Man charged over alleged bogus property investment scheme

Arrow International

Arrow: ‘We had no choice’

Bella Vista Homes

51 charges filed over Bella Vista Homes

Masterton

50 new houses for Masterton

NZ property market

NZ property market ‘not like Australia’

Palmerston North police station

Derelict old Palmerston North police station building bought by Rangitāne

Arrow International

Chows eye up construction firm Arrow International after administrators take over

illegal containers

$12,000 fine for illegal containers

top independent agents

Australasia’s top independent agents recognised

Auckland tenant

$127 for cold rental