tenants

Real estate agents

Real estate agent apologises for sign

Real estate agent’s ‘outrageous’ email | OR IS IT?

Ray White NZ

RAY WHITE: A new standard in property management

housing crisis

National wipe out Jacinda’s ‘WOKE’ rental laws

Sydney real estate agent Julie Bundock

Twist after real estate agent destroys home

For Rent

RENTAL CRISIS: Rents HIT an all time high | TRADE ME

Property manager

Changes ahead for tenants and landlords under a National led government

David Seymour

ACT aims to empower landlords who have been unfairly scapegoated

Tania Leiven

Real Estate Agent and landlord threatened to sue tenant

Aimee Therese Marsh

‘Don’t play stupid’: Twist in real estate agent sacking drama | WATCH

Property Investment

How Much Money Can You Make Through Property Investment? | WATCH

Trade Me

New Zealand renters paying more | Trade Me

website

Website allowing users to see properties landlords own taken down

Real estate agent slammed for wearing body cam during inspection

Temporary villages being looked at to ease cyclone housing crisis

Temporary villages being looked at to ease cyclone housing crisis | WATCH

Rents

Rents start the year at a record high | TRADE ME

Jeremy O’Rourke

Cheap homes on the market in Hamilton appealing to big-city buyers

rental property

Calls to freeze rental prices amid Auckland floods

Epsom

Auckland rents to go up after flooding

BUY V RENT

Should you Buy or Rent in 2023? | WATCH

Taupo

Housing and staff crisis plaguing Taupō hospitality

Kāinga Ora

$16m missed rent owed to Kāinga Ora

Property manager

RENTS are through the roof at 7.5% more | Trade Me

rental property

Arguments for and against a rent freeze amid cost of living crisis

KiwiBuild

HOUSING: Tax break for new ‘build to rent’ landlords

Tenants

Tenants ordered to pay over 30k for damage to property

instagram

Reality stars ordered to pay nearly $2k after threatening to expose their landlord

Māori housing

Wellington renters march to property management company Quinovic

Emergency motel

$15.8m paid to one motel via emergency housing grants

HOUSING CRISIS: Government cuts funding for a rental scheme

Rents forecast to rise

‘A renters’ market’: Warning issued for NZ landlords

Landlord

A landlord called his tenant ‘ugly’. Now he owes her thousands of dollars

Woman’s ‘nightmare’ issues with rental property

Property manager

Rents are dropping – more rentals available | Trade Me

Emergency motel

Rotorua motel owners making millions

For Rent

Empty viewings and cheaper rent: Flat hunting in 2022

Ashley Church

High profile property investor loses the plot

Is the rental market finally good for renters?

Rents swell to record-high prices | Trade Me

housing crisis

Budget 2022 – find out how it will effect housing in New Zealand | UPDATED LIVE (WATCH)

house prices

‘Family of 13 in a three-bedroom house’: Kiwis struggling under Labour

Property manager

HOUSING CRISIS: Rents follow inflation’s lead and SKYROCKET

Trade Me Property

Rents experience MASSIVE annual increase | TRADE ME

first-time investor

‘Aha moment’ that created rookie’s property empire

Tim Kearins

Renters should see a mortgage broker

Trade Me Property

Rents experience largest annual increase since July | TRADE ME

rent rises

HOUSING CRISIS: 80 percent of property investors are planning rent rises

emergency housing

Government smashes own record for amount spent on emergency housing

Auckland renter, Sarah Bickerton, has found finding and affording a rental apartment far easier in Auckland compared to Wellington.

Trade Me ‘profiting from a human rights crisis’ by not blocking sub-par rentals

rent increases

Less rentals available mean SKY HIGH rents

Property market

Tenant ‘stoked’ with $220pw sleep-out after 55 applications

Kāinga Ora

Total compensation for state landlord’s neighbours remains unknown

Landlord banned from renting out homes

state housing

NZ Government V First Home Buyers – pushes house prices out of reach

Property manager

Renters hit mortgage calculators

Property manager

New Zealand rents climb 8% in one year

Ricky Houghton

What I really want for Christmas: Ricky Houghton

Neighbours

Scared Auckland residents beg Kāinga Ora to evict neighbour

Ferncliffe Farm

Kāinga Ora buys farm

baches

Surge of Aucklanders booking baches outside the region

Landlords fined after poor conditions led to child’s rheumatic heart disease

Empty Homes

New Zealand ranks 14th for the highest proportion of empty homes around the world

Real estate terms

Real estate terms explained: Definitions and buzzwords words you need to know

TAX exemption

Two decade TAX exemption for new builds

state house

Family lose most of their possessions after repair blunder contaminates state house

rent freeze

Rents remain at an all-time high | Trade Me Property

Opoly

Got $100? You now can be a property investor

Alex Veljancevski

How Alex Veljancevski built his eight-property portfolio at just 31

Airbnb

New Zealand Airbnb 2021 Host Award winners revealed

Wellington residents

Govt ‘exploring options’ over rental evictions during lockdown

Property manager

Renter given notice during lockdown as landlord ignores ‘be kind’ message | WATCH

Rent

HOUSING CRISIS: Rents are going through the roof | Trade Me Report

Monopoly

FOUR things a game of Monopoly taught this veteran property investor

Property Market

How The Property Market Is Destroying Our Social Fabric

average rent

New Zealand is ranked the 13th least-affordable country to rent in the world

Rental listing

‘Awful’: $400 Wellington property listing demands flatmate leave house six hours a day

Boulevard Motel

Data reveals hundreds living in transitional housing for months on end

Marama Davidson

Marama Davidson, responsible for solving homelessness, ‘not satisfied’ with progress to date

cycle of poverty

Woman who grew up ‘hotel-hopping’ houses a new generation of homeless

Rental property WOFs

NZ Rental property WOFs

CoreLogic

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

renting

Here’s how much the cost of renting has increased since 1993

landlords

Small property investors retreat from New Zealand housing market

rental property

Otago landlord’s bizarre, ‘bigoted’ rules for rental property mocked online

Silverfern properties

Tenant calls now defunct Auckland emergency housing ‘not fit for a dog to live in’

ENEWS

Property News NZ News Summary | Tuesday 13 July, 2021

new homes

Govt hopes $136 million investment in Porirua will see 2000 new homes built

housing policies

ACT launches suite of housing policies

Professor John Tookey

‘No silver bullet’ to solving building supply woes – expert | WATCH

home ownership dream

Family realise home ownership dream

Duncan Garner

Duncan Garner: Jacinda, John, Jenny and Helen didn’t build enough state houses

state housing

National’s Nicola Willis heaps blame on Govt for ballooning state housing waitlist

Queenstown housing

Queenstown housing still wildly expensive despite pandemic hit | WATCH

Wellington renters

Wellington renter’s mould-filled flat highlights regulation needs | WATCH

Trade Me

Good news for tenants as rents across NZ grind to a halt | TRADE ME PROPERTY

Barefoot Investor exposes shady rental agent scheme

RE/MAX Impression rentals division

LEADING PROPERTY MANAGEMENT COMPANY JOINS RE/MAX NZ

Small homes

Small homes, big ambitions

state houses

Government accused of double standards over health of state houses

Economist

As Porirua rents soar, Mayor says up to 16 people living in three-bedroom homes | WATCH

Kiri Barfoot

Auckland’s average rent HITS $599pw

Meth Alarm

Meth Alarm – Protect your property investment

Rotorua emergency housing plan

Rotorua emergency housing plan ‘just the start’ of dealing with the issue

emergency housing

Auckland property company in liquidation after taking millions in wage subsidies

Trade Me Property

Rental market shows signs of cooling off ahead of winter

property investors

Over 30 percent of property investors recording annual losses

rent increases

Ardern: Govt ‘keeping an eye on’ rent increases, as median prices continue soaring | WATCH

Marama Davidson

Davidson labels some emergency housing as ‘inhumane’

emergency housing

‘Motel generation’ feared as NZ’s emergency housing need continues

David Seymour

New Website To Hear Housing Stories

Hamilton landlord

Terminally ill woman, WINZ families asked to vacate homes by Hamilton landlord after Government crackdown on property investors

Sydney couple

Couple reveal ‘light bulb’ moment that helped them net $1m a year in rents and retire in their 20s

tenancy agreements

Early exit from tenancy agreements see renters handed expensive bills

First home

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

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

Blacklist proposed for NSW’s ‘lousy landlords’

Landlords

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

Housing crisis

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

property managers

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

landlords

Privacy Commissioner to crackdown on landlords breaching privacy of tenants

housing frenzy

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

Property Investors

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

Housing crisis

Housing crisis: Is rezoning the answer?

Trade Me Property

Summer brings heat to New Zealand’s rental market