Covid-19 (Page 8)

More properties are selling at a discount, but the discounts are getting smaller

Waiheke Island

The Auckland holiday hotspot where house prices have plummeted 17 percent

REINZ CEO Bindi Norwell

COVID-19 bolsters holiday home prices as Kiwis flock to the beach

house prices

Bank warns of ‘painful correction’ unless house prices stabilise or start to fall

CoreLogic property report

‘Astonishing and surprising’: New property report forecasts which parts of NZ will get the biggest Christmas equity increases

trademe-property

House prices skyrocket as 2020 comes to a close | Trade Me Property

How home prices will change in 2021

Bindi Norwell

Bindi Norwell leaves Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ)

New Zealanders must accept need for house price falls | ANZ

Houses to be in ‘oversupply’ by next year

Property investors

Property investors not convinced by ANZ tightening lending

Christmas real estate scramble sends property prices up | WATCH

New Zealand housing market

ANZ now requires 40% deposit for residential property investment loan

Real estate’s ‘chicken or the egg’ dilemma

House prices

40 per cent deposit from residential property investors | ANZ

housing crisis

Is the housing crisis starting to turn around? Some signs point to yes

REINZ CEO Bindi Norwell

Premium for selling your house with an agent at highest point in 18 years, says REINZ

Holidaymakers and property buyers flood Queensland since border reopening

Ray White Group

Ray White Group – November 2020 Results | WATCH

Record house prices

Record house prices leave sellers in tears as buyers fight to win

housing crisis

Government to wait until next year to act on housing crisis, despite skyrocketing prices

first home buyers

Please, no more stories about young people buying houses

New Zealand housing market

New Zealand housing market ‘insane’ for buyers, realtor says their ‘job is to get best price’

National Housing Market Update | December 2020 – WATCH

NZ housing

New report shows the truly dire state of NZ housing

Real estate agents accused of fuelling hot property market by manipulating ‘estimated prices’

New Zealand homes

Homeownership has plummeted to its lowest rate since 1951

Westpac

The rise and rise of New Zealand house prices | WESTPAC

Tony Alexander

‘First home buyers are tired’: Report shows interest in open homes and auctions drops

Tony Alexander

REINZ & TONY ALEXANDER REAL ESTATE SURVEY | DECEMBER 2020

affordable housing

How low rates killed the affordable housing dream | AUSTRALIA

housing prices

NZ’s housing prices: finding a remedy

House prices

Fixing House Prices And The Limitations Of A Capital Gains Tax

The big problem with ‘off market’ sales

Housing crisis

Housing crisis a ‘perfect storm’ and will only get worse – Salvation Army

Queenstown

Queenstown Property Market Bounces Back

house prices

The simple fix to stop NZ’s rampant house prices NOW! | propertynoise.co.nz

Housing Frenzy

Housing Frenzy in New Zealand Exposes Perils of Ultra-Low Rates

5 questions to ask yourself before you buy an investment property

CoreLogic

New affordability measures show why property has got political so fast | CORELOGIC

house prices falling

‘Every politician is scared’ of house prices falling – Don Brash

housing crisis

Jacinda Ardern partly blames New Zealand public for housing crisis

First home buys soar to record high

Auckland Housing Market

Auckland Residential Housing Market Sustains Growth Into Fifth Month

realestate.co.nz

NZ Property Report: November 2020 | realestate.co.nz

CoreLogic Reports

CoreLogic House Price Index – Property market firmly in political spotlight | FULL REPORT

housing market

One simple idea to fix New Zealand’s dysfunctional housing market

ASB survey

ASB survey: Steep house prices turning people off

Beachgoers

Why 1.1m Aussies are planning to sell their homes soon

beach houses

Why 1.1m Aussies are planning to sell their homes soon

Jason Oppenheim

Netflix’s ‘Selling Sunset’ star Jason Oppenheim on how coronavirus has impacted the real estate market

Housing Crisis

Labour Seems To Have Finally Realised There Is A Housing Crisis In New Zealand

Gold Coast property market tipped to ‘increase dramatically’ in first home buyer frenzy

Ashley Church

Housing crisis ‘is not real’, investment expert claims

property market

Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr on house prices and the property market | WATCH

Coronavirus driving Northern Territory property boom | WATCH

Australia’s happiest sellers revealed

negative OCR

It is getting tougher to borrow – First home buyers mortgage approvals down | RBNZ

housing crisis

Ardern and Collins quarrel over housing crisis as Parliament returns | WATCH

Adrian Orr

Adrian Orr says Reserve Bank wants to introduce debt to income ratios to NZ

Brisbane

Brisbane set to be Australia’s property market leader

House prices

Reserve Bank warns of ‘risks if house prices fall sharply or unemployment rises’ | WATCH

The costs and responsibilities of a real estate agent

House prices soar in popular school catchment zones around Australia

Trade Me Property

Rental Price Index – Trade Me Property | Long summer ahead for tenants

house values

Mortgage lending strong and deferrals are rapidly winding down | CORE LOGIC

Reserve Bank

Can Reserve Bank dampen an inflamed housing market?

housing market

Time to stop ‘GHOST HOUSES’ | The land banking version of housing

Grant Robertson

Grant Robertson is passing the buck a bit on house prices – but what else is he to do?

Loan-to-value Ratios

BNZ To Re-introduce Pre-COVID-19 Loan-to-value Ratios

Finance Minister Grant Robertson

Robertson writes to Reserve Bank over soaring house prices, wants to give first home buyers ‘a shot’

Housing Bubble

Fixing The 2020 New Zealand House Price Bubble

McGrath backs record result on ‘The Block’

Consumer NZ

Consumer NZ Lodges Complaint Against Airbnb And Bachcare

housing crisis

The Reserve Bank and the housing crisis

Tauranga

Tauranga’s median house price now at $810K

runaway house prices

‘Wacky ideas’ won’t stop runaway house prices, but there’s one thing that will – Sir John Key

housing crisis

PM gets prickly over Davidson’s wealth tax comments, says her ‘concern’ over house prices sets her apart from Nats

LVRs

LVR Change | What Does It Mean for NZ Property Market? WATCH

housing boom

Looking back, moving forward: John McGrath

building houses

‘We’re building houses for rich folk’ – Economist says NZ is building the wrong types of property

Property Noise Advertising

Property News NZ News Summary Monday 23 November, 2020

Jacinda

Jacinda & Labour supporting property speculators

Kiwi dream

Goodbye to the Dream | WATCH

First home buyers

Increasing numbers of first home buyers despite soaring property prices | WATCH

ENews

Property News NZ News Summary Friday 20 November, 2020

Aussies’ mortgage troubles spike

Judith Collins

Judith Collins wants brakes on lending that’s ‘continuously pushing up house prices’

2020 REINZ Awards for Excellence

REINZ Awards for Excellence: WINNERS

CoreLogic

CoreLogic NZ Monthly Property & Economic Update – November | WATCH

Even Recession Can’t Cool New Zealand’s Red-Hot Housing Market | BLOOMBERG

Fixed rate home loans are at their lowest ever — but they come with a catch

First-home buyers

First-home buyers have record share of the market – report

Auckland suburbs

Tax reform needed to solve New Zealand’s housing crisis – economist

Nicola Willis

Government should be using every tool to address ‘runaway’ house prices – National | WATCH

National Party

Government Must Rein In The Reserve Bank Now

Cameron Bagrie

Economist urges Reserve Bank to try another way of cooling the housing market

Property News NZ News Summary

Property News NZ News Summary Tuesday 17 November, 2020

trademe-property

Auckland property prices crack $1m for the very first time | Trade Me Property

New Zealand property market

New Zealand named in top 10 most expensive countries to buy a house in

Property Noise Advertising

Property News NZ News Summary | Monday 16 November, 2020

housing boom

Reserve Bank says it’s not responsible for housing boom | WATCH

New Zealand Property Market

The New Zealand Property Conundrum | WATCH

The Reserve Bank of Australia

Demand for property tipped to rise after latest RBA interest rate cut

House Prices

Skyrocketing house prices means buy now, says real estate agent

Why our real estate market is splitting in half

Greytown

Greytown’s oldest commercial building now luxury accommodation and it’s up for sale

Real Estate Agents

COVID 19 – means more NZ Real Estate Agents | REA

Jacinda

Ardern says she wants to ensure first home buyers can get into the market, as prices soar | WATCH

Māori housing

Māori paying enough rent they could afford homes, but can’t compete with investors

ASB

ASB adjusts LVR restrictions in support of first home buyers

days to sell a property

Selling as fast as hotcakes | Days to sell a house lowest in 17 years – REINZ

Auctions

Nearly a quarter of all properties sold by auction in October

OCR

Reserve Bank holds cash rate at record low 0.25% | WATCH

Bindi Norwell

Record house prices – 19% increase in 12 months | REINZ

E-Newsletter

Property News NZ News Summary Thursday 12 November, 2020

housing market

‘Scrambling to catch up’: Reserve Bank caught ‘completely off guard’ by strong housing market – economist

Why Auckland house prices will continue to fly

LVRs

RBNZ to consider reinstating LVRs from March 2021

Reserve Bank

No Change | Official Cash Rate (OCR)

What US election result means for Australian real estate

Property Noise E-Newsletter

Property News NZ News Summary | Wednesday 11 November, 2020

million-dollar property

What a million-dollar property looks like around the country | WATCH

Australian housing market could see a historic crash

Property Ladder

Expert Feature: Getting on the Property Ladder

Cameron Bagrie

New lending scheme should perhaps exclude property investors – economist