Homes & Property New Zealand (Page 40)

Auckland private school Saint Kentigern sells $23m campus to Hebrew Congregation

mortgage rates

Great rates, but should you fix?

Sawtooth House

One-of-a-kind ‘Sawtooth House’ in Queenstown sold

Apprentices

Apprentices vie for title

Upper Hutt developer Malcolm Gillies to concentrate on big ticket projects

Court battle over $10m house

Taranaki property market leads country in average asking price increase

New name for Chch stadium

Wellington Property Market

Where will Wellington grow?

Historic office conversion in Hawera showcases a shower in a vault

DOC hut turned into a brewery

Community group opposes ‘McMall’

Upper Hutt

Big changes at the #1 real estate agency in Upper Hutt

derelict house

What happened to derelict house?

OIO

OIO reveals the high price paid by Matt Lauer for Hunter Valley Station

trademe-property

Seven regions hit all-time highs in March

female real estate agent

Taranaki’s first female real estate agent

House prices

‘Poorer quality’ homes on sale

Barfoot & Thompson

Auckland Property regains momentum, prices remain stable

OCR

WATCH: Is It Up ORR Is It Down?

Wellington City Council

Spotlight on 5000 ‘character’ homes as Wellington City Council tries to accommodate 80,000 people

OCR.

Rate cut next month?

Tauranga realtor

Tauranga realtor’s charitable demeanor

Wakefield Hospital

Fee win after investor revolt

Ford Model T factory

Ford Model T factory conversion to lofts finally completed

real estate agent

Buyer made $700k overnight, vendors say real estate agent helped house flip

firebreaks

Compensation still unclear for farmer whose land was cut up for firebreaks

3D visualisation

Near-death experience stirred man to create business

Briscoe Group

Retail giants Briscoes and Rebel shift and Evo Cycles to open in Nelson

Korokoro

Stepfather wins house back

lead-based paint

Thousands exposed to lead-based paint

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

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

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)

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

power bills

House with zero power bills

Petone

Rising sea hasn’t sunk 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?

Mortgages

Decline in new investor mortgages

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

alleged gunman

Accused gave landlord notice

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

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

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

Public land

Public land turned private

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

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

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

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