New Zealand Property & Real Estate News (Page 52)

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.

house prices

Central Auckland house prices plummet, Real Estate Institute data shows

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

Arrowtown

Dozens of affordable homes approved for Arrowtown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

mortgage lending

Residential Lending Approvals Increase – just not to landlords

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

mortgage rates

Great rates, but should you fix?

Sawtooth House

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

Apprentices

Apprentices vie for title

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?

DOC hut turned into a brewery

Auckland on the cusp of a buyers’ market

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

Auckland apartment owners

Auckland apartment owners regret buying units in development taken over by a hotel operation

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