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.

eviction freeze

Time to end rent, eviction freeze, Real Estate Institute says

Kiwibank

‘Not a short-term promotion’: Bank takes lead in slashing floating home and business loan rates

Free Rent

First-home buyers get free rent

Kiwibank

Kiwibank cuts interest rates

PM Jacinda Ardern

PM Jacinda Ardern opens $1b Commercial Bay

Placemakers

Placemaker store tipped to close

REA

Real Estate Authority (REA) Welcomes A New Chief Executive

Shamubeel Eaqub

Economist warns more ‘pain to come’ as New Zealand’s direction scrutinised in OECD report

Michael Hill Jeweller

Three Michael Hill stores closed

rogue roofer

Fair Go: Victims of rogue roofer who took more than $250k from them call for tougher sentence | WATCH

CORE LOGIC

Property values showing loss of momentum | CORE LOGIC

Tony Alexander

REINZ & TONY ALEXANDER REAL ESTATE SURVEY June 2020

AMP Wealth Management

The start of a trend? AMP Wealth moves out of the city

Taco Bell’s second New Zealand outlet to open

public housing apartments

New public housing apartments open in Onehunga

New Zealand house prices

New Zealand house prices could ‘potentially’ drop worse than 9% – Reserve Bank

Women’s fashion brand Max to close 17 stores across New Zealand

residential development

$75m available for housing

Lakeview Precinct

Big tick for megabucks project

Investor Confidence Falls To Four-year Low | ASB

Mortgage

Home mortgage lending falls

Wellington

Levin quakes trigger new seismic sensors

bach

Is this a good time to buy a bach?

Shamubeel Eaqub

The cost of coronavirus to the world economy

Airbnb

Airbnb property owners switch to long-term rentals

mortgage holidays

Why mortgage holidays are a windfall for banks, who could net up to $100m

QV data

Property prices ‘on the brink of a material decline’ as growth rate declines in 14 New Zealand cities

Housing market bouncing back after COVID-19, but growing unemployment could see prices plunge – REINZ

Nido

What’s superstore Nido really like?

REINZ CEO Bindi Norwell

Real estate market confidence shifts due to COVID-19 according to new REINZ report

property dispute

Woman in big property dispute wants money up front to fund battle

container house

Landmark container house sold

Nelson property

Will ‘micro-climate’ shield Nelson from forecast housing fall?

Tall Poppy

Australia’s Property Market Could Light The Way For NZ

Covid-19 wage subsidy

More property listings expected when Covid-19 wage subsidy runs out – QV

wedding business

Wedding business forced to close

Family bach

Family bach battle

Leaky home

Leaky home in hot demand: ‘I could have sold it 10 times over’

Barfoots

Auckland House Prices Show Resilience In Post Covid Trading | Barfoot & Thompson

Bill Foley

US billionaire invests in NZ

QV House Price Index

Property market ‘on the brink’

Michael Davoren

RE/MAX Michael Davoren steps aside

QV data

Property prices ‘on the brink of a material decline’ as growth rate declines in 14 New Zealand cities

Te Anau hotel

60 Te Anau hotel staff laid off

New Zealand’s property market

QV delivers stark warning about future of NZ property market

First time buyers keen

First time buyers keen, despite downturn

Bunnings

Bunnings closures confirmed

Wairarapa

Living the lifestyle dream by remote

Historic Devonport Arts and Crafts landmark

Historic Devonport Arts and Crafts landmark sells for $3.3 million

House sellers

House sellers confident: Can it last?

Vanessa Williams

ASKING PRICE RECORD HIGHS IN SEVEN REGIONS AND DEMAND FOR PROPERTY REMAINS STRONG | realestate.co.nz

Williams Corporation

Developer told to remove ‘misleading’ info

Anna Mowbray

Billionaires’ move – The Mowbray siblings now own Kim Dotcom’s former mansion.

Nido

New Auckland homeware store opens

Commercial Bay

Commercial Bay sets opening date

Queenstown real estate

Queenstown real estate slump

holiday home destinations

New Zealand’s most popular holiday home destinations for Queen’s Birthday weekend

Kingsland property

Rundown villa gets nine offers

CoreLogic

Lockdown drives mortgage slump in April

Auckland Mayor Phil Goff

Auckland’s biggest test yet to come

Vodafone Innov8 office building

Calling investors

Jacinda Ardern

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is “pushing the NZ economy off a cliff”

Adrian Orr

Banks well-positioned to withstand COVID-19 hit as loan defaults expected to rise – Reserve Bank

Kiwi lifestyle

Covid-19 impact on home priorities

Yelsa

New real estate app set to revolutionise the way people buy and sell property

Retirement Commissioner Jane Wrightson

Majority of households either in financial crisis, or on the brink

Housing confidence

Housing confidence falls to near eight-year low as COVID-19 impacts hit – survey

multi-million dollar home

How a $3.2m home sold in lockdown

house prices

Unemployment could rise to 18 per cent, house prices could halve | RESERVE BANK NZ

Property Brokers

Gisborne Property Auction Yields Good Results Despite Covid-19

ASB survey

Fewer Kiwis expect house prices to rise, ASB survey shows

Waitomo Caves

‘If the caves go, we all go’

Meridian Mall

Mall owner plays hardball with tenants

Remote working

Remote working can result in higher cost savings and productivity for businesses – experts

Commercial construction

Up to 20,000 construction jobs ‘at risk’

Century 21

Winter will be ripe for first-home buyers

Wellington landmark

Wellington landmark for sale

property market

The State of the New Zealand Property Market | WATCH

Mortgage rates

How best to take advantage of the banks mortgage wars | WATCH

The Kelston Mall

$100 Million Of Retail Property Sales

property company

Kiwi Property Group reports $186.7m loss for year

The Environment Court

Auckland developer must pay $300k

Peter Wolfkamp

New rules could be DIY disaster

Kelly Clarkson

Kelly Clarkson selling her stunning California home for $16 million

Queenstown property

Large Queenstown property auction a “market barometer”

Ihumātao

Fletcher called on to return Ihumātao after collecting $68 million in wage subsidies

Te Awa Lakes

Big firms delay 1000-house project

tiny homes

The rise of tiny homes in New Zealand

Building and Construction minister

DIY dream come true: building consents for low risk projects scrapped

renters

Covid will hit renters first | Here’s why Covid-19 will hit rents, not house prices

fixed interest rate

Record new low: Bank slashes home loan fixed interest rate to 2.69 percent

Selwyn Metcalfe

Taranaki real estate market getting up a head of steam

Luxury apartments

Luxury apartments start to flow again

mortgage rates

With mortgage rates at a record low should borrowers lock-in or wait?

Justice Hinton

Man and two women who had three-way relationship in court battle over $2m farm

golden triangle

Lots for sale in the ‘golden triangle’

mortgage wars

Home loan rates are at record lows.

lakeside lodge

Billionaire drops lakeside lodge plan

Fletcher Building

Staff gutted over job cuts | Fletcher Building

Entire street

Entire street attracts buyers

Rental freeze

Coronavirus: Rental freeze hits ‘Mum and Dad’ landlords hard

Queenstown

Here’s where house price falls might be

NZ Property

The mortgage rate rush

recession

Coronavirus: ‘All we’ve seen is the disruption, the real recession starts now’ – economist

Wellington's commercial property

Wellington’s commercial property market expected to weather crisis well

Petition

Petition attracts 1700 signatures

Fletcher Building

1500 jobs to go at Fletcher Building

Leaky home

Leaky home in need of rescuing listed as a ‘gem’ with issues

street for sale

Entire street for sale

Reserve Bank deputy governor Geoff Bascand

No negative OCR this year

Trade Me Property

Rent freeze set to change NZ rental market

Sharon Zollner

What is a negative interest rate, anyway?

building costs

Will building costs rise?

First-home buyers

First-home buyers distraught

property markets

Report reveals most vulnerable property markets post lockdown

open homes

First post-lockdown weekend of open homes

Family home lost

Family home lost to neighbour

Vicki Pomeroy

KiwiSaver should become mortgage repayment scheme for homeowners

Century 21

Reserve Bank helps real estate, now Govt needs policy review

Huka Falls, Taupo

Accommodation interest in Taupo, Queenstown surges under level 2

Petone's Imperial Tobacco factory

Where nimble fingers worked

housing deal

New $40m housing deal between Government and Māori

New Zealand house sales

New Zealand house sales nosedive 78% during April