Homes & Property New Zealand (Page 44)

Should you buy a house?

Rich lister Tracy Gough spills the beans on why he bought Thornycroft for $6.8m

The Block NZ: inside winners Amy and Stu’s colourful Gisborne home

Chelsea Winter: Selling up in Auckland and starting anew

Fantasy castle vision

AUSTRALIA: The cellars that rival a top winery

Here are the priciest property sales of 2018.

Northland property management companies merge

Augusta Capital buys land and plans for 5-star hotel in Queenstown for a new Tourism Fund

Ngāmotu Purchases Novotel New Plymouth

WATCH: CoreLogic Monthly Property & Economic Update – November 2018

WATCH: Rot and mould at Middlemore Hospital to be fixed as part of $80m cash injection

8 is our economy’s unlucky number

Real Estate Agent John Palino confirms another tilt at Auckland mayoralty

Fully renovated $3m heritage home sells for $6.8m

NZ Real estate boss in leaky home drama is now GM of a Franchise in Auckland

‘Where’s my dough, bro?’: Brothers head to court over unpaid $100,000 loan

New cost-cutting initiatives as home building surges again

Government to create new urban development authority, bringing KiwiBuild and HNZ together

What half-a-million dollars can unlock for first home buyers

Stolen gate returns to its historic home after being spotted on social media

How Mount Maunganui turned from paradise to prison

Only seven Wanaka KiwiBuild homes sell

Jeremy O’Rourke

Court of Appeal backs Commerce Commission in real estate price-fixing claim saga

Rental agency suggests upping rents by $6 a week to recoup lost letting fees

Reserve Bank

Loan restrictions ‘could lift next week’

Extra rules don’t seem to be deterring property investors, yet

Landlords fight back

America’s Cup boss turned down $25m mansion – didn’t like the view

Abandoned house for sale on Waiheke is too dangerous to enter

Kells’ failed Maritime Apartments sells Auckland site for $17.5m – triple value over three years

Pay your mortgage 10 years faster, save $300,000

Fashion designer Annah Stretton has put her eclectic Waikato family home on the market.

Unique Fritz Eisenhofer home on the market for first time

Grand Designs NZ: Pod House

Court orders developer to pay council $400,000 development contribution levy

Franchisee of liquidated Harcourts business must pay $1m

REINZ launches new end-to-end digital signing tool – FlexiSign

Grand Oriental Bay rotunda designs

$80K for former P lab

WATCH: Understanding the types of land ownership in New Zealand

Building a case on CTV ruins

City living, if you have $1m

How far your deposit might stretch

Boss fined over bogus panels

Why do Aussies get cheaper mortgage rates than New Zealanders?

Take care with bank tempters

A Christchurch mansion brought back from the brink

AUSTRALIA: Rugby star Quade Cooper and model Laura Dundovic list Brisbane love nest

First-home buyers’ bidding hacks

Wairarapa Property market stabilises

Amora Hotel sold for undisclosed amount

Warins a family at war

‘Get set for house price falls’

New home prices starting to fall in flat Auckland market

Low-income property developer helps community meet housing demand

Advice from 1940s to help you get rich

Dunedin’s rising star

Landlords must pay

Your guide to 2018’s mortgage wars

Chinese speaking buyers offered first dibs on ‘top secret’ luxury apartment planned for Auckland

Letting fees were banned, but property managers are introducing a new fee.

Capital gains shift out of Auckland, Real Estate Institute data shows

SPRING SPROUTS INTO ACTION WITH HIGHEST NUMBER OF SALES IN 5 MONTHS, SAYS REINZ

Two years on: First-home buyers gamble on quake-damaged bargains

NZ’s Housing Market: The Cold, Hard Facts

Fowler Homes terminates drug case Taranaki licencee’s contract

High Court

Chinese businessman has assets frozen as wife seeks to recover $1.2m she claims she put into house

RBNZ

It may soon be a little easier to get a home loan

One of Gisborne’s most successful real estate agents has ‘hung up her boots’,

Can you trust the CV? Here’s what you need to know

KiwiBuild signals interest in ‘pocket’ of prime land on Wellington peninsula

Where are the KiwiBuild buyers?

$1.8b Auckland stadium plan on shaky ground as council pours cold water on funding plea

Here’s why the country’s most beautiful concert venue struggles to get acts

Vanessa Taylor

Vanessa Taylor appointed Head of Sales at realestate.co.nz

ASB chief economist Nick Tuffley

Confidence in New Zealand property market grows, ASB housing survey shows

City camp for sale

Tenant to give landlord Airbnb profits after running secret Taupo guesthouse

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

WATCH: KiwiBuild and state housing ‘not mutually exclusive’ says PM

Piha bach is best house

Kiwibuild at threat of going ‘Kiwibust’ over ‘plummeting popularity’

Quarter-acre dream fades in capital

RE/MAX named the leading real estate franchise by Franchise Times

Gate with sentimental value stolen from Manawatū farm

Where to find a first-home bargain

No help for property owners facing chlorine-related repair bills

KiwiBuild sellers face bill

Bank pulls back on mortgagee sale

Extreme makeover pays off

Auckland’s Am Cup waterfront

KiwiBuild

Property investors back KiwiBuild house-flipping flip-flop

Official Cash Rate unchanged at 1.75 percent

Wellington’s latest rating valuations publicly released online

40 constructions jobs axed at Accent On Group

For Sale: Roadside viewing only

The demolition of Christchurch’s Lancaster Park

New Zealand’s newest $1m suburbs

New CEO for realestate.co.nz

Lotto winner’s Christchurch home

Dunedin

Dunedin plans 1200 new homes

House ‘value capture’ tax suggested by Productivity Commission

2020 Housing Market

Kiwibank ‘not doing its job’ to counter big bank profits

Grand Designs couple change their mind about post-earthquake build

What $1m buys you in Wellington

‘You’ve lost my savings’: KiwiSaver members struggle with downturn

Government extends KiwiBuild ballot deadline in Wanaka after just 20 entries for 10 homes

Ex-LJ Hooker agent suspended

NZ suburbs

Nine million-dollar suburbs for Wellington as house values jump nearly 50 per cent

Barfoot & Thompson

BARFOOT & THOMPSON: October 2018 residential sales report

Taranaki construction company in liquidation, 79 creditors owed money

New apartments at Hobsonville Point priced up to $5 million

Christmas tree farmer loses $150,000 due to council planning predictions

One state house’s architectural transformation

New Zealand Architect New Home of the Year

Fears Hamilton City Council’s development contributions could prompt developers, homebuyers to abandon city

Snug competition shortlist of 12 tiny Kiwi homes released

Auckland students threatened with $100 fine for using electric fan

Deflating the property bubble requires a change of thinking

Once Were Warriors suburb

Time to buy property as listings grow

Northland beach-front bach has $3.85m pricetag

Housing market’s new hope: shared equity

A ‘tenant from hell’ facing her 16th tribunal hearing

Winery investment now ‘worthless’

Costly property split case