housing plan (Page 4)

Rents

House prices increase by $100,000 in 12 months

NZ Crisis

You can’t pay your rent with Jacinda’s spin’: ACT, Collins tear down Ardern over rent increase fears

Kiwibank

We’re short 80,000 homes – KIWIBANK | WATCH

rent increases

Jacinda Ardern cautious over possible rent increases due to housing investment rule changes | WATCH

landlord tax rules

What happened when the UK changed landlord tax rules

Chinese buyers

Kiwis are behind New Zealand’s runaway house prices. Not buyers from China or Singapore

Housing Package

Explained: Labour’s controversial new housing package | WATCH

Grant Robertson

Finance Minister ‘can’t predict’ effect Government’s housing package will have on rents | WATCH

bright-line test

Change to bright-line test not deterring buyers – agent

Landlords

‘Appalling’: Landlords slammed for suggesting using violence, ‘rat poison’, the Mongrel Mob to evict squatters

New Zealand

Australia won’t follow NZ down housing tax path

Nicola Willis

Labour’s Housing Policy Looking Like KiwiBuild 2.0

Chlöe Swarbrick

Chlöe Swarbrick says landlords crying ‘crocodile tears’ after year of amazing capital gains

house prices

The shocking pay rise Kiwis need for current house prices to be ‘affordable’

homes.co.nz Monthly Property Update

homes.co.nz Monthly Property Update – March 2021

housing package

Government trying to solve issues in supply, demand for houses | WATCH

NZ property

What kinds of homes qualify under the new First Home Loan and First Home Grant spending caps?

Housing Package

Labour’s housing package naive at best, plain dumb at worst

Kiwibuild Mark II

Judith Collins savages housing package, says Kiwis can’t trust what Government tells them | WATCH

NZ Property Investors' Federation

Unintended Consequences Of Today’s Housing Announcements

3D printing

How 3D printing technology could fix New Zealand’s housing crisis

Housing Market Update

CoreLogic NZ Monthly Property & Economic Update – March 2021 | WATCH

housing crisis

Kiwis think Govt not doing enough to address housing crisis as politicians quizzed on how many homes they own

Ihumātao

Ihumātao deal under scrutiny as Housing Minister Megan Woods accused of using KiwiBuild as ‘slush fund’

Shelly Bay

Shelly Bay development one step closer after appeal for resource consent decision fails

First-home buyers

First-home buyers resort to extreme measures to get into property market

Interest rates

Are interest rates on the turn?

The Pain and Gain Report

CoreLogic report shows property resale performance strongest in 15 years

NZ Housing Crisis

Record profits reaped by property owners and investors revealed

Property investors

Housing crisis: Economist says curbs on interest-only lending for investors could be partial solution to rocketing house prices

Housing Crisis

Courage needed to solve the housing crisis, Reserve Bank Governor says

First home

Auckland couple says buying first home ‘feels surreal’ after boarding for two years to save money

house prices

By targeting house prices, New Zealand shows the way

Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr

Successive Governments’ inaction to blame for housing crisis, says Reserve Bank Governor

capital gains tax

Housing affordability: IMF recommends capital gains tax

Toru Apartments

Progressive Home Ownership launched at Queenstown apartments

NZ Property

Rapid property price boom across New Zealand, nine out of 10 regions see spike in sales, volume – REINZ data

home ownership

Women fall behind in home ownership in New Zealand

Century 21

Auckland quieter but house buyers still abuzz under level 3

Finance Minister Grant Robertson

Housing crisis: Financial Times swipes at Government for using Reserve Bank as ‘convenient scapegoat’

Pegasus

Should a brand new city be built in New Zealand to take pressure off housing market? | WATCH

housing affordability

CoreLogic report shows continued decline in housing affordability

runaway housing prices

New Zealand’s Covid-19 success unleashes runaway housing prices | WATCH

Adrian Orr

Reserve Bank holds OCR at record low 0.25%

Megan Woods

What it’ll take to halt New Zealand’s housing crisis? | SPECIAL REPORT

First home

First-home buyers fear missing out as mortgage backlog stalls applications before LVR restrictions return

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mortgage rates

“Fundamental factors” could slow housing market down – ANZ

record median house prices

Four regions reach new record median house prices

Regional Property Insights

Regional Property Insights | Tony Alexander

Auckland landlord

Auckland landlord criticises unbalanced punishments under new tenancy laws | WATCH

emergency housing

Ministry of Social Development defends emergency housing charging double market rate

tenancy rules

New tenancy rules come into effect

LVRs

Reserve Bank to reimpose LVRs for first home buyers, property investors from 1 March

House prices

Stemming The New Zealand Home Price Nosebleed | WATCH

Landlords

Landlords getting rid of tenants before new rules set in – advocacy group

NZ housing

Proof that supply is the key driver of our housing crisis | WATCH

Housing crisis

NZ’s housing crisis to get ‘worse and worse’, senior economist warns

ASB

ASB further adjusts LVR restriction in support of first home buyers

Barfoot & Thompsom

REAL ESTATE ‘Influx of new listings’: The most homes on the market in eight years – real estate agency

property managers

Property managers told to quit Facebook page that publishes ‘blacklist’ of tenants

Century 21

Covid Ignites Coastal Property Boom

landlords

Privacy Commissioner to crackdown on landlords breaching privacy of tenants

Average house price

Wealth of trouble: Average house price eclipses $800k and growing

Auckland Housing Market

Holiday Break Does Nothing To Rein In Auckland Property Sales

CoreLogic Reports

CoreLogic January House Price Index – New Zealand property powers on through summer break

housing frenzy

Investors to sell their ‘crap’ houses while housing frenzy lasts – economist

House price rises

Media still covering house price rises as good news

refurbished block

Enormous difference’: Dingy units changed into ‘brilliant’ homes

Property Investors

Investors get greedy to take 27% market share of property sales

Mortgage

Mortgage lending at a all time high – up 19% | Reserve Bank

$1million house sales

More properties are selling for over $1 million than ever before, REINZ says | WATCH

‘We thought we had won Lotto’

Lending restriction

Lending restriction increase expected in effort to cool off residential property investors

Trade Me Property

Summer brings heat to New Zealand’s rental market

Young Kiwi homeowner

‘Easiest way to save’: Young Kiwi homeowner uses $60,000 from KiwiSaver to buy first home

Auckland rents

The average weekly rental in Auckland reaches a new high of $595pw

Mobile housing project aims to provide affordable housing option | WATCH

Auckland house buyer

Auckland woman calls for housing ‘system’ shake-up as she struggles to buy first home in hot market

A snapshot of 2021 for property prices, interest rates and unemployment

housing crisis

New Zealand housing crisis: Don Brash paints grim picture for future of home ownership

Pressure mounts on Government as house prices forecast to leap 15 percent this year

I’m getting tired of how this housing crisis is being misconstrued – Mark Richardson

Prime Minister

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern details timeline for housing annoucements

Shelly Bay

Iwi members protesting Shelly Bay sale give developer trespass notice | WATCH

Labour Party pamphlet

Labour Party pamphlet from 1919 shows striking parallels to today’s housing crisis

Queenstown’s property market has reversed its lockdown losses

one-bedroom dwelling

NZ Housing Crisis: Shipping container for rent – $390pw

House prices

Property’s just gone beserk: House prices predicted to saor in 2021

LVRs

Property expert attacks LVRs as ‘ultimate stupidity’

Property prices

Property prices in New Zealand have doubled in value from just 10 years ago

housing development

New housing development under way in Queenstown

emergency housing

Social service providers sound warning over toll of emergency housing conditions

Shelly Bay Shows The Dangerous Side Of Kindness

Corelogic senior property economist Kelvin Davidson

Top Performing Suburbs Of 2020

Cost of renting

‘We’re in a crisis:’ Cost of renting continues to rise

realestate.co.nz

Seriously Sizzling Property Market In 2020

House prices in cities expected to drive economic recovery – Westpac

The Residential Tenancies Amendment Bill

The lowdown on New Zealand’s biggest tenancy reform in 35 years

Westpac

Westpac NZ Offers 2.29% One-Year Home Loan Rate

House prices

The “stupid” trajectory of New Zealand home prices | WATCH

Homes.co.nz

homes.co.nz Monthly Property Update – January 2021

Trade Me Property

Trade Me’s Top Property Listings For 2020 Revealed

Barfoots

Barfoots sell 1,479 Auckland properties in one month

average house price

NZ’s average house price hits $788k

New Zealand’s housing crisis

New Zealand’s housing crisis poses big test for Jacinda Ardern

Property expert

Property expert rubbishes claims house prices are becoming unaffordable, says they’ll keep going up through 2021

CoreLogic's house price index

First home out of reach for more people in 2021 – CoreLogic

Grant Robertson

House prices kept going up through December, Government and investors blamed

NZ housing market

New house price figures show 6% jump in final three months of 2020 | WATCH

property market

Property Market Set To Cool From Sizzling To Warm In 2021

Pensioners

Pensioners shocked after weekly rents increased

NZ’s housing prices

NZ’s housing prices: opportunity or crisis?

New Zealand house sales

Don’t expect any drastic changes to the property market at the start of next year

Housing market

Housing market predicted to cool next year – expert

Mortgage lending

Mortgage lending hits record high

NZ house prices

Kiwis go on a property spending spree

Housing crisis

‘People have given up’: Even basic homes in Otara now cost $1 million

trademe-property

National rents increase by 21 per cent in 5 years | Trade Me Property

REINZ

The highest performing regions for residential investors | REINZ

Northland property

Northland services under pressure amid population boom, holidaymakers | WATCH

Chinese buyers

Australia ‘will pay foreigners up to $50000’ to buy a new home

rent prices

‘Desperation’ for homes driving rent prices up in small-town New Zealand

Ashley Church

How this current housing boom is different

New ANZ report

New ANZ report says continuing house price rises ‘doesn’t add up’ | WATCH

REINZ CEO Bindi Norwell

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