New Zealand (Page 15)

NZ property investors

New NZ Tax Rules | Brightline Test & Tax Deductibility | What Should Property Investors Do Now? | WATCH

NZ house prices

New Zealand house prices have soared 16 per cent in past year, a 15-year record | WATCH

Opoly

Kiwis offered chance to buy shares in $1 million Auckland house in new investment scheme

overseas investor

Company receives $140k fine for not declaring overseas investor

Real Estate Agents

Real estate agent found guilty

Sir Ron Brierley

Who was Sir Ron Brierley?

MONSTER MORTGAGES

Housing crisis: First-home buyers with MONSTER MORTGAGES

Sir Ron Brierley

Property tycoon pleads guilty to possessing child sexual abuse material

Auckland homeowner

Auckland homeowner’s dismay at ‘horrendous’ note calling them ‘profit-seeking ass’ after buying family home

Tony Alexander

Landlords: 74% plan on raising rents more than they were planning

Don Ha

RE/MAX New Zealand recognises network’s top performers at annual awards night

Mortgage borrowers

Mortgage borrowers warned interest rate hikes likely in next couple of years

Tiny home

Father and teen son who built tiny home together ready to sell | WATCH

holiday bookings

Kiwis leaving their holiday bookings till last-minute

Auckland landlord trespassed tenant and dumped belongings 11km away

Southern Wide Southland

Property Brokers merge with Southern Wide Southland

251 Tinakori Road, Thorndon

FEATURE PROPERTY: 251 Tinakori Road, Thorndon, Wellington | WATCH

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

REINZ

REINZ launches next generation automated valuation model (AVM)

timber shortage

Builders warn customers to expect delays as timber shortage hits New Zealand

Housing Boom

Supercharged housing market sees boom in real estate salespeople | WATCH

landlord tax rules

What happened when the UK changed landlord tax rules

Wellington NZ

Can New Zealand Fix Its Housing Crisis?

Chinese buyers

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

Interview with Diana Cussen, Platinum Agent of Excellence

Interview with Diana Cussen, Platinum Agent of Excellence – realestate.co.nz | WATCH

Housing Package

Explained: Labour’s controversial new housing package | 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

Reserve Bank

Mortgage lending shows NZ property market continues to run hot

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?

house prices

New map shows New Zealand suburbs with fastest rising house prices

soaring house prices

NZ government takes bold action to curb soaring house prices

bright-line test

Government removes blanket family home exemption for extended bright-line test

Housing Package

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

31 Taupahi Road, Turangi

Turangi property with direct river access goes on market

first-home buyers plan

Government announces first-home buyers plan

Trade Me Property

Regional rents on the rise while city rents remain stagnant | Trade Me Rental Price Index

3D printing

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

CoreLogic maps

CoreLogic maps the NZ property market, reveals top performing suburbs

Manawatu/Wanganui takes out top spot as highest performing region for residential investors, says REINZ

Housing Market Update

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

Tenant from hell

Northland ‘tenant from Hell’ | WATCH

Renee Wright

TV presenter Renee Wright sells North Shore home

housing crisis

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

property developer

Best time to be a property developer in a generation

Ihumātao

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

Colliers Whangarei

Northland’s Success Prompts The Launch Of Colliers Whangārei

mortgaged investors

Tighter interest-only lending could bite investors pretty hard

Shelly Bay

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

Waterfront

FEATURE PROPERTY: 342 Tangiora Avenue, Whangapoua, Coromandel Peninsula | WATCH

student hostels

Committee warned of ‘harrowing’ situations in student hostels

First-home buyers

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

Interest rates

Are interest rates on the turn?

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

IRD

IRD to target real estate agents ‘under reporting income and overstating expenses’

teaching farm

Ministry of Education accused of ‘stealing’ a Taihape teaching farm

New Zealand’s property prices

New Zealand’s property prices are so cooked, Kiwis want to move to Australia for cheap housing

New Zealand’s property prices are so cooked, Kiwis want to move to Australia for cheap housing

Housing Crisis

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

house prices

By targeting house prices, New Zealand shows the way

ASB

Housing confidence at a 25-year high but buyer sentiment turns negative | ASB

Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr

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

Auckland property

Standoff between police, protestors in long battle over clearing trees for houses | WATCH

capital gains tax

Housing affordability: IMF recommends capital gains tax

Toru Apartments

Progressive Home Ownership launched at Queenstown apartments

AppraiseMe

New Online Platform Set To Disrupt New Zealand’s Property Market

NZ Property

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

Marriage or Mortgage

Marriage or Mortgage is HERE! | Netflix (WATCH)

Trade Me Property

Trade Me takes one step closer towards rival’s acquisition

West Coast hotels

‘Exhausted all avenues’: Scenic Group closing four West Coast hotels

Auckland

3 cities where housing is even less affordable than Auckland

Kāpiti Coast

85% Of Kāpiti Oppose Closure Of Kāpiti Airport

Century 21 Fairdeal Realty

Century 21 opens new office in Manukau

New Zealand real estate agent numbers jump during massive NZ property boom

Real Estate Authority

Real Estate Agent numbers jump during massive property boom

real estate agent

Auckland real estate agent on how being female helps her sell houses

Alison Kemp

Interview with Alison Kemp, Platinum Agent of Excellence – realestate.co.nz | WATCH

REINZ CEO Bindi Norwell

REINZ launches new DataHub for property data, insights and analytics

Century 21

Auckland quieter but house buyers still abuzz under level 3

Auckland property development

Could two Auckland developments serve as blueprints to solve NZ’s housing crisis? WATCH

Adrian Orr

Reserve Bank governor Adrian Orr: ‘Absolutely a question mark over house prices’

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

Wellington librarians

Wellington librarians upset and angry over council decisions

‘Pointless’ — First Home grant increasingly out of touch with property market

‘Pointless’ — First Home grant increasingly out of touch with property market | WATCH

Ngāti Maru signs $30 million settlement with Crown

housing affordability

CoreLogic report shows continued decline in housing affordability

wage subsidies

Real estate companies pocketed wage subsidies during eye-watering property boom

housing boom

RBNZ Governor outlines housing direction

runaway housing prices

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

CoreLogic

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

Adrian Orr

Reserve Bank holds OCR at record low 0.25%

Australian owned banks

Bank profits shrink thanks to low interest rates, rising costs

Ageing population

Ageing population to become one of the biggest drivers of New Zealand’s housing crisis, report finds

Property Passion Persists | REINZ

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

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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Free Home

Couple giving away Lower Hutt home for free — but there’s a catch | WATCH

First-home buyers snapping up KiwiBuild homes in New Plymouth

Homes.co.nz

Trade Me Seeks Clearance To Acquire homes.co.nz

landlords

Quarter of renters who left homes forced out by landlords – study

Taranaki man

Taranaki man hoping to trade his way to home ownership, starting with a clay tomato | WATCH

mortgage stress

NZ property investors greed pushing away first home buyers

Trade Me Property

Property prices see largest annual growth on record

ASB bank

Major bank revokes decision to clamp down on investor lending for new builds

CoreLogic

Investors seem to have been rushing to beat tighter LVRs | CoreLogic

record median house prices

Four regions reach new record median house prices

New Zealand’s housing market continues apace despite summer holidays

Regional Property Insights

Regional Property Insights | Tony Alexander

2/363 Karaka Bay Road, Karaka Bays

FEATURE PROPERTY: 2/363 Karaka Bay Road, Karaka Bays – Wellington | WATCH

Auckland hotels

Auckland hotels struggle through ‘peak’ summer season

Auckland landlord

Auckland landlord criticises unbalanced punishments under new tenancy laws | WATCH

Rental law changes

Rental law changes: What is a ‘minor change’, and what does the law say?

13 Buckle Street, Mount Cook

FEATURE PROPERTY: Wellington police barracks for sale