Homes & Property New Zealand (Page 40)

Auckland prices

Buyers want smaller, cheaper homes

cat bond

Renter’s $500 cat bond

Holiday park

Holiday park guests spend $1.2 billion – chasing the camping dollar

InsideOut Building

$50,000 bill to fix problems left by builder

William Sanders Retirement Village

Ryman Healthcare pays compensation for building delay to soon-to-be residents of Devonport retirement village

IAG

Wellington mayor calls for insurance forum after IAG’s price hike announcement

Western Springs

‘As is, where is’ abandoned villa needs ‘Block-style’ do-up

Shelly Bay

Sir Peter Jackson takes to Facebook again over Shelly Bay

google

Google is about to revolutionize the way consumers find real estate agents

coastlines

Costs rise for crumbling coastlines as council makes it clear: homeowners are on their own

corelogic

Lending activity drops back a little in March

housing market

Interest rates are crumbling around the world, as rate cuts are expected.

Property Market

CoreLogic Q1 2019 Property Market & Economic Report

Old Saint Paul's

$2m repair bill for house of God physically stretched by act of God

New Plymouth subdivision

Proposed New Plymouth subdivision will compound existing traffic problems, say residents

real estate agent

Senior real estate agents’ bill to former client gets bigger, but appeal pending

trademe-property

National weekly rent edges closer to $500

Landlord

Landlord must pay renter compo for surprise backyard construction of a house

Real estate professionals

Real estate professionals call it a day

Co-housing project

Co-housing project secures land video

Statistics NZ

New home for Statistics NZ

office buildings

Capital office buildings on the block

flipping houses

Days of flipping houses for a quick buck may be over in Auckland

Wellington Property Market

WATCH: Wellington Property Market Update for March 2019

Airbnb

Airbnb likely cause of high rents in Queenstown, research suggests

Waiuku

Houses could replace motor camp

Century 21

Auckland businesswoman buys into Century 21 New Zealand with aspirations to expand

Queenstown holiday park

Queenstown holiday park tenants face homelessness to make way for development

capital gains tax

Cutting capital gains master stroke

House prices

House prices plummet

leaky homes

Battle against alleged leaky homes giant James Hardie inches one step closer

house prices

Central Auckland house prices plummet, Real Estate Institute data shows

Revealed: Takapuna is Auckland’s fastest-growing suburb

landlords

Landlord’s flat tours

Shelly Bay

Baggins, dragons and the Fellowship of the Bay

KiwiBuy

Govt urged to support scheme helping low-income families buy homes

Wellington's Civic Square

Wellington’s Civic Square ‘devoid of people’ following construction, quake closures

Christchurch real estate boss

Real estate boss loses appeal

Shelly Bay

Iwi owners remind Sir Peter Jackson Shelly Bay development is ‘our decision’

insurance company

Owner can sue broker and insurer after house was under-insured, court says

urban sprawl

Too much ‘versatile land’ lost to urban sprawl in New Zealand

Chow brothers

Chow brothers owe ex-worker $66k

farm sales

New figures show another drop in farm sales

regional park

Wellington Mayor announces new regional park in wake of Sir Peter’s tirade

Stonewood liquidators

Court orders Stonewood liquidators to reveal real funder

Pepin Island

Island up for grabs

one-bedroom apartment

Charging $360 per week in rent for an ‘apartment’ the width of a bus is greedy

building development

Māori group protest building development on occupied land in Auckland

Historic house

Historic house heading for financial strife as trustees told to sort budget

Lower Hutt property

Lower Hutt property for sale covered in native bush after three decades

David Sharma

Disgraced real estate agent David Sharma leaves victims with little hope

Retirement villages

Retirement villages – the catch

Arlington Tower housing

Wellington City Council moves closer to flicking off Arlington site to Housing NZ

Barfoot & Thompson

Barfoot & Thompson defends marketing tactics after adding 15,000 tenants to email list without their knowledge

Terry Serepisos

Serepisos house for sale

Point Chevalier

‘Mum’s’ Point Chevalier house in family for 66 years sold quickly

Kiwi banks

Kiwi banks among world’s most profitable

Wellington portfolio

New property player builds Wellington portfolio to $400 million

WATCH: CoreLogic Monthly Property and Economic Update – April

Powell house

Concrete castle’s champion

CGT

‘Renting longer’ without CGT

First home buyers

First home buyers and investors are neck and neck

capital gains tax rejection

Sir Michael Cullen ‘not in the least surprised’ at capital gains tax rejection

capital gains tax

Farmers welcome dropping of capital gains tax as ‘well reasoned’ decision

REINZ welcomes Labour’s announcement that it will not proceed with a capital gains tax

capital gains tax

BREAKING NEWS: Govt rejects capital gains tax

housing development

Battle between homes and traffic

workers village

Rebuild workers village for sale

James Hardie

James Hardie loses appeal bid

Karen Chang

Real estate agent pleads guilty

NZ property market

WATCH: Property Market – Are New Zealanders Being Kept In The Dark?

Palmerston North

Work starts on Rangitāne hotel in Palmerston North

Paerata Rise

Paerata Rise proving popular as buyers flock to new subdivision

Heritage home

Heritage home in wealthy Christchurch area for sale after losing protected status

Kawakawa Station

Court orders Chinese owner of Wairarapa farm to settle access row before he sells

property crash

AUSTRALIA: Property ‘armageddon’: House prices could fall by 50 per cent

mortgage

Should you break your mortgage?

Southern Auckland

Southern Auckland to grow by 80,000

Wellington hotel

New hotel for Wellington

Sporting superstars

Sporting superstars splash out on homes that are out of this world

Harcourts

Bowing out after 18 years

Why more Kiwis are choosing Taupō – ‘the centre of everywhere’

Bunnings

Bunnings overcomes zoning hurdle to challenge Mitre 10 in Queenstown

Property Crowd

Property Crowd hits trouble on day of launch

Nic Foote

Kiwi homeowners looking for love can now swap house keys!

property market

Now’s the time to get into New Zealand property market – experts

Wellington

Sea level rise will cause $7b worth of damage to Wellington unless emissions are drastically cut

Māori land

Māori land must be exempt from capital gains tax

YouOwn

Pros of co-owning a home

Steven Adams

NBA star Steven Adams understood to have bought $6m property in Wellington

school building

Mid-century former school building looking for new life

Mokau Marae

Women building ban

marijuana

Tenants caught out by marijuana

house prices

Sales slump hits hard

foreign investment

‘Business as usual’ for foreign investment

Rental yields

How do rental yields look around the country?

Uncertainty around legislation & difficulty accessing finance continues to impact sales volumes, says REINZ (full report)

Tenancy Tribunal

Renters to pay $8k for deck

home loan rate

Do up your house, save money

CoreLogic

Auckland’s weakness not so much about value bands but geography

Central Energy Trust Arena

Council-owned Cuba St buildings demolished after falling victim to vandalism

mum's house

Time capsule from the ’50s: Family selling mum’s house after 66 years

How many Real Estate Agents? REA licensing statistics (31 March 2019)

Dunedin

21 state houses in Dunedin unoccupied

KiwiSaver

Downside of increasing KiwiSaver

Petone-Grenada highway

Reset button hit on $270m road

Auckland house prices

Auckland house prices hit tipping point as buyer options increase

BNZ

BNZ launches shared home-ownership scheme

first-home buyers scheme

Commerce Commission says first-home buyers scheme misled

east frame housing

First east frame residents at last

Waikanae

Landlord of long-empty Kāpiti shops should be forced to lease them, business owners say

Chris Gollins

Not-so-new player sets up office

Acacia Bay

Legal threats for residents opposed to Acacia Bay development

Yarrow Stadium

Taranaki rugby union supports $55m repair and facility upgrade of Yarrow Stadium

New Zealand shares

New Zealand shares fall as the threat of a slowing property market

property owners

Study finds many property owners won’t fix houses despite knowing of serious health and safety risks for tenants

Spivey Real Estate

Spivey Real Estate joins PGG Wrightson

properazzi

ARE APARTMENTS SHOWING MUCH CAPITAL GAIN?

Wellington indoor arena

Entertainment giants AEG Ogden, Live Nation and TEG in the mix to build Wellington indoor arena Tom Hunt

Capital Gains Tax Poll

Large majority of New Zealanders don’t want capital gains tax – poll

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