New Zealand Property & Real Estate News (Page 37)

Keep informed with what is happening with property and real estate in New Zealand. We aggregate real estate news and property news so you have one place to visit for all your property news.

Vanessa Williams

Expat Kiwis rush to buy houses back home – but few on offer

Realestate.co.nz

Move to level 3 prompted sellers to try housing market, Realestate.co.nz says

US billionaire

US billionaire’s $1.3m subsidy

QV House Price Index

Property market heads into the unknown

Ashley Church

COVID-19 could bring good news for first-home buyers

Millie Elder-Holmes

Millie wants design advice

house hunters

Is travelling hours to view a house essential?

Building consents

House consents tipped to plummet

Click-and-collect

Click-and-collect drive-thru service gives Westfield shoppers a taste of mall experience during lockdown

Commercial property owners

Developers plead for Govt help

Grand Designs NZ

Grand Designs ‘rescue’ villa

Castlepoint Store

Bach owners flout level 3 rules

Barfoots

Auckland Property Market Bruised But Stable

House prices

CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 fallout to make property a buyers’ market, predicts economist

housing market

Bumpy ride ahead for housing market in post-Covid world

Rototuna Town Centre

Big dollars for Hamilton’s boomtown

House viewings

House hunting slightly easier under alert level 3

Nude Gardening

Nude gardening in level 3

Isabella Lenihan-Ikin

University students continue to pay for rooms inaccessible in lockdown

Wellington first home buyer

First time buyer positive about the property market

New Zealand’s housing market

What’s up with New Zealand’s housing market?

Real Estate Agents

What will the real estate industry look like in 2021?

LVRs

How Scrapping LVRs Will Change The Market

overseas buyers

More Overseas People Selling Than Buying Homes

claim expenses

How to claim expenses against tax when working from home

Queenstown

Coronavirus: Queenstown business owners struggle to pay rent

LVR

Easier home loans

work-from-home

Coronavirus: IR makes it easier to reimburse work-from-home expenses

Poverty

COVID-19 will cause ‘new wave of immense poverty’ in NZ – Auckland City Mission

rent or food

Food or rent? Tenants forced to decide

Century 21

Two new franchises for Century 21

Queenstown's Shotover Country

Crisis chills Queenstown’s white-hot property market

Otto apartment block

Wellington $25m apartment development launches sales and marketing amid pandemic

Auckland houses prices

Six days of lockdown, 1100 fewer sales

Building industry

Confidence is home builders’ biggest concern

Queenstown property

Fixed or variable commercial rent – cool heads called for

New Zealand house sales

REINZ reveals true impact of 6 days of March Level 4 lockdown on real estate sales

Negative OCR

Negative OCR coming: Westpac

new subdivision

Shared storage plan for new subdivision

New Zealand economy

BNZ braces for downturn

Economist Benje Patterson

Queenstown property market flooded with rentals, big drop in values likely

Home owners

Caution advised for investors eyeing property market

Victoria University

Victoria University of Wellington students refuse to pay $150 per week ‘placeholder fee’ for unoccupied rooms

house price falls

What 10% house price falls might look like

Tony Alexander

Here’s why house prices may not fall as far as you expect

Grant Robertson

Business owner pockets $150,000 from Government wage subsidy, and he’s not paying it back

economic collapse

On the brink of economic collapse

Level 4 lockdown

Surges in house sales expected as Level 3 looms

Reserve Bank

Banks Working Against Each Other

Queenstown Lakes district

Queenstown’s fall from grace

super rich

Do we want world’s super rich?

Rod Drury

Open NZ land ‘to global riches’

Waiheke Island

Inside Waiheke, the ‘Hamptons of New Zealand,’ where billionaires are hunkering down in their mega-mansions during the pandemic

Trade Me Property

COVID-19 lockdown brings the rental market to a halt

Bindi Norwell

Real estate sector gets green light

Tony Alexander

Covid-19: The Housing Market – Positives & Negatives

The Caughey Preston rest home

$100m site snapped up

economic hit

‘Truly enormous’ economic hit will push jobless to 11%, house prices down 15%: ANZ

Reserve Bank

The Reserve Bank has confirmed it intends to remove LVR restrictions

Tall Poppy

NZ Property Market Rebound Likely During COVID-19 Recovery

Fiscal policies

New Zealand families ‘need cash payouts’ to force economy back to life

rent relief

Nash: ‘Step up now’ for rent relief

Reserve Bank

Reserve Bank proposes to remove LVR restrictions

Wellington property

Owners ordered to move 17 years of rubbish

Land at Damper Bay

America’s wealthy flee Covid-19 epicentre for their New Zealand bunkers

Cameron Bagrie

‘Layoffs are coming’: Economist warns unemployment set to ‘surge’, house prices to fall

The Council of Retail Property

Dire consequences for malls if forced to shut during alert level 3

Nelson

Airbnb rental bubble

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house prices

House prices tipped to plummet as potential buyers go broke

CoreLogic

CoreLogic NZ Monthly Property & Economic Update | WATCH

homeowners

Will homeowners go under?

TradeMe property

Drop in TradeMe property browsers during lockdown

Westfield malls

Rent relief on the horizon?

Recession

New graphs depict alarming economic impact of COVID-19 in New Zealand

Arcadia

A 650-Acre Estate In New Zealand Where Lord Of The Rings Was Filmed Has Sold

real estate agents

What next for real estate agents?

Harvey Norman

Harvey Norman agrees to pay 50 per cent rent to kick off negotiations with landlords

Buyer misses out on house because inspection companies closed

Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr

NZ’s housing risk

Trade Me Property

COVID-19 puts New Zealand’s property market on ice

IMS Building

Historic bank building up for sale

landlords

Calls for landlords to show compassion going unanswered – tenants

rent disputes

Rent disputes linger

Tony Alexander

Non-bank mortgage providers are seeing an increased number of new clients

Real-iQ

One in five tenancies could fall into arrears

Real Estate Institute

Real estate: When is it business as usual?

Wellington's South Coast

Five houses have been evacuated as large waves pummel the capital

REINZ CEO Bindi Norwell

Auckland & NZ hit record median prices before COVID-19 hit, says REINZ

Robertson

Government gives small and medium-sized businesses a boost

retail businesses

Rent relief for businesses

Burger King

Burger King in Receivership

Property prices

Property prices likely to fall but by how much is the big unknown, experts say

tenancy hearings

Over 1000 tenancy hearings adjourned

Wanaka

How to get a property bargain

ASB

ASB asking business owners to put homes on line for loans

mortgage assistance

Over 68,000 home owners request mortgage assistance amid coronavirus pandemic

Residential Real Estate

Covid-19: At the Coalface – Residential Real Estate | homes.co.nz

Vulnerable people

Almost a thousand motel rooms provided for homeless people trapped in lockdown

Mitre 10 franchise

How a Mitre 10 franchise defrauded one of its building contractors

property investors

Lockdown ‘final straw’ for worried property investors

Dominion Rd

Coronavirus: Auckland’s Dominion Rd businesses struggling under lockdown

economic hardship

Are we destroying the economy?

The Economist

Covid-19: how bad will it be for the economy? | The Economist

Kāinga Ora

Kāinga Ora apologises after notifying tenants of rent hike

Baldwin Street

Character villa for sale in steepest street in the world

New Plymouth

New Plymouth ‘losing architectural and cultural heritage’

REINZ reveals most affordable Auckland suburbs for first time buyers to be close to the City

luxury lodges

New Zealand’s luxury lodges to ‘throw out the welcome mat’ for Kiwis post-lockdown

Quinovic

Under-fire Quinovic takes $260k wage subsidy

construction projects

Covid-19: Construction impact

Coffee Club

Cafes say landlords putting pressure on

real estate agent

The story behind the Wellington house that’s only getting better with age

Metlifecare

Big deal looks terminal

Westpac

Coronavirus: Fitch cuts ratings of big four banks amid Covid-19 concerns

Lockdown limbo

Thousands of home buyers, sellers in limbo waiting for settlement amid Covid-19 restrictions | WATCH

2020 Canterbury Architecture Awards

Architecture shortlist 2020

Tauroa Station

Haven in Hawke’s Bay for sale

instagram

New Zealand in LOCKDOWN: Day 13 | Instagram

Nikki Connors

NO NEED FOR PROPERTY PANIC: SEVEN WAYS KIWIS CAN MANAGE THEIR HOLDINGS THROUGH THE LOCKDOWN AND DOWNTURN

Anum and Mohammed Ali Muttaqi

Buyer stuck in chain of stalled house sales pleads for help as bill grows daily

Open Homes

Ditch unfair mortgage margins

Te Aroha home

Buyers rush to find home

Athfield house

Signature Athfield house sold

mortgage debt

The Covid crisis is coming for first home buyers with mountains of mortgage debt

first-home buyers

The #1 statistic to follow when predicting where the NZ property market will head