Homes & Property New Zealand (Page 38)

Cranmer Gardens

Luxury build restarts as Parker bows out

Bowen House

Tower quake risk

Sally Ridge

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

Hastings

Dream of building hotel in Hastings comes to fruition after ten years in the making

Westpac

Westpac’s $6000-a-year warning

Clint Randell

Dancing with the Stars’ Clint Randell and wife Jaime have transformed their Auckland family home

property manager

Horror stories from a property manager

LVR

RBNZ plans to ease loan restrictions – at some stage

earthquake repairs

High St ‘dirty 30’ building to be auctioned

cycle path

Funding approved for Wellington to Hutt Valley cycling and walking path

roof scammer

Instant jail term for roof scammer James Quinn

Real Estate Institute chief executive Bindi Norwell

Privacy rules to protect renters are ‘concerning’, Real Estate Institute says

Auckland property

WATCH: Auckland Property Continues To Slide – (Pokeno)

Wellington tower

Landmark Wellington tower designed by the late Ian Athfield is for sale

earthquake claim

Multi-million dollar Wellington earthquake claim

230 High Street Christchurch

Real estate agent says he was kept in dark about concerns over Christchurch building

Global Financial Crisis

Fear of the next GFC is real

Real estate agent

Real estate agent suspended

Welcome Home Loan

Welcome Home Loan rule ‘out of date’ for Wellington buyers

Joanne Harrison

Ministry of Transport fraudster Joanne Harrison’s home and Rolex seized

Dunedin

Woman who stole 94-year-old’s savings sells house to repay debt

Rodney

Live out your Wild West dreams on this Auckland ‘movie set’ home

Wellington houses

Open homes go ahead in Wellington houses seemingly condemned by new road

Band Rotunda

Band Rotunda to be redeveloped

log home

Manawatū couple build million-dollar dream home of logs and stone

Real cost of a flat pack home

Yarrow Stadium

Yarrow Stadium to undergo $50m repair and upgrade

Australian property

Will Auckland’s House Prices Crash like Sydney’s?

Investors a strong presence in April (but not due to CGT scrapping)

REINZ reminds landlords they have just 40 days left to insulate rental properties or face a $4,000 fine

Shopping centre

Shopping centre’s likely sale

Bunnings house

‘We bought a Bunnings house’

Landlords

The things landlords can and can’t ask you

‘Awesome’ tiny houses built by trainee tradies sold to same person

Kiwi Property

Kiwi Property well ahead

Yarrow Stadium

Amended Yarrow Stadium recommendation would cut repair cost to $50 million

CoreLogic

WATCH: CoreLogic Monthly Property and Economic Update – May, 2019

Wellington Property Market

Wellington property market runs hot as buyers look further afield

Ray White New Zealand

Ray White New Zealand welcomes a new leader for Nelson region

Insurance premiums

Insurance in New Zealand is changing

Climate change

Climate change flight inland

First-home buyer

First-home buyer – at 50

Mortgage Link

Mortgage Link announces partnership with realty company

Wellington neighbours

Fence is gone but a sense of injustice remains in Wellington neighbours’ court saga

The White Report

WATCH: The White Report – April 2019

tiny house

There’s waiting list for a house from Bunnings, as tiny house living soars

Interior of the Year awards

Uber cool kitchen takes out top award spot

Gurpreet Grewal

Ex-real estate king fails to return

historic Dunedin building

Scarfies’ home, a former hospital for infectious diseases, is for sale

rental property shortage

People turning to campgrounds as Taranaki’s rental property shortage bites

property investment

Tips for property investment

AUSTRALIA: Real Estate Agent Peeping Tom caught on camera placed on good behaviour bond (watch)

Blockhouse Bay

Buying your childhood home is an emotional stake in the past

Capital Gains Tax

CGT is dead. But there are other ways to thwart a raging property market

Indian tenants

‘No, because you’re Indian’

Modular hotel

Modular hotel a NZ first

New Zealand house sales

New Zealand house sales slump 11 per cent

Lower Hutt Events Centre

Hutt City Council preparing to underwrite $700k loss on events centre

Wellington Central Library

Wellington’s $10m library closure

REINZ stats: Will the OCR impact Auckland’s median price ‘Groundhog Day’?

Eastbourne

Katherine Mansfield’s family holiday cottage for sale ‘as is, where is’

KiwiBuild

Winston Peters says target of 100,000 KiwiBuild homes over 10 years is ‘easily achievable’

Open Home

Finally on the ladder

housing crisis

Action sought on housing crisis

eco-houses

‘Sustainable’ homes gather pace gallery

Preet Grewal

Ex-Harcourts real estate agent Gurpreet Singh Grewal gets bail variation, flees to India

Neighbours

Neighbours at war

heritage buildings

Iconic heritage buildings are at risk of being boarded up

Naenae pool

Rebuild or repair: What is the best option for Naenae pool?

OCR

Exactly how much you could save on your mortgage now the OCR has been cut

Modernist house

Architect’s own Modernist house celebrated in NZIA Western awards

real estate agents

Agents sacked from second firm

Amy Adams

Who loves property the most?

Golden Bay

Residents fear for properties after bid for coastal rockwall rejected

Palmerston North

Friends’ fierce battle over house finally comes to an end

Waiwera Thermal Resort

Waiwera owner owes Kiwibank $1.29m

Topp Twin

Topp Twin downsizing: Dame Lynda and Donna list Topp Lodge

Jacinda Ardern

The number of properties owned by MPs revealed

Bindi Norwell

Recent property figures reveal tale of two cities in growth and decline in property values – REINZ

real estate agents

Sacked real estate agents pick up new jobs despite racial social media posts

Interest rates

Interest rate falls save thousands

properazzi

PROPERAZZI: QUARTERLY PROPERTY REVIEW FOR NZ OUTSIDE OF AUCKLAND – Q1 2019

properazzi

PROPERAZZI: THE AUCKLAND QUARTERLY PROPERTY REVIEW – Q1 2019

Unsworth Heights

An Auckland couple are offering their Unsworth Heights home for sale for bitcoin

Foreign house buyer approvals

Foreign house buyer approvals drop sharply under new rules

Shipping container

Shipping container-turned-one bedroom cabin up for auction

Housing Award

NZIA celebrates Wellington’s best buildings, but there are few new houses

Christchurch villa

Heritage-listed Christchurch villa rescued by family who have finally moved in

first-home buyers

Time’s right for first-home buyers

Martin Devlin

Martin Devlin in Tenancy Tribunal for not paying bills

Mt White Station

Mt White Station buyer returning to New Zealand just before residency deadline

Wellington castle

This spooky Wellington castle is in need of a knight in shining armour

Lyttelton cruise berth

Lyttelton cruise berth cost rises by $11 million

Wanaka

How a Wanaka family built an architecturally designed home for $500,000

Tenancy Tribunal

$9K for hole ‘big enough for cat’

Wellington library

Wellington library demolition?

new home consents

Surge in Auckland building activity with new home consents up 24 per cent

Real Estate Leaders Summit

Leaders in real estate join forces this August

Real estate agent

Disgraced real estate agent Geoffrey Mairs seeks to have cancelled licence reinstated

Sky-scraper

Sky-scraper’s five-year target

Queenstown

Queenstown council’s $14m property

Mortgage broker

Mortgage broker sues for $211,000 in fight over Sandringham house

first-home buyers

First-home buyers taste bitter reality

volcanic island

Island to be rebuilt with human waste

Invercargill property

Landlord says 16 cats destroyed his Invercargill property

Migrant builders

Migrant builders get protection

Porirua Adventure Park

Porirua Adventure Park a step closer

apartment living

Fears rising insurance and body corp costs could make apartment living unsustainable

Foreign buyer ban

How has the foreign buyer ban affected the property market?

insurance risk

Counting cost of insurance risk

First home buyers

First home buyers invasion

Queenstown project

Sir Bob in big Queenstown project

Ed O'Neill

CELEBRITY: Actor Ed O’Neill Buys Beautiful Home on Hawaii’s Big Island

coastal development

The $99k seaside sections offering a glimpse into future coastal developments

Foreign buyer ban

Foreign buyer ban hasn’t had the desired effect, expert says

Nic Foote and Chris McKenzie

New chat platform for permanent house swaps is like ‘Tinder for homeowners’

Victoria Lane apartments

‘Pocket park’ may be lost as Victoria Lane apartments stamp footprint on city

NZ Property

NZ property values continue to show modest growth

Barfoot & Thompson

Uncertainty Affects Auckland Property Sales Numbers But Not Prices – Barfoot & Thompson

Auckland house prices

Average Auckland house price drops $100,000 over three years

NZIA Auckland Architecture Awards

Best houses – NZIA Auckland

Shelly Bay

Iwi land sold for $2m

Dunedin flat

Notorious flat pulled from tender

building industry

Red tape and high costs are strangling the building industry, new survey reveals

SkyCity

SkyCity eyes Queenstown development

Henry Graham

Renters given refunds after big property manager caught charging ‘key money’ by plucky Wellington tenant