Tim Manning was the key note speaker at the Dalian- Auckland Business Luncheon for a delegation of top government officials from China. Hosted at the Hilton Hotel, Princess Wharf, in March, The Luncheon commenced welcoming the delegation with a speech from the Premier- Professor Xia emphasizing the strong relationship between Auckland and the province of [...]
Developer bankruptcies leave hole in the property sector
Article by Niko Kloeten
The bankruptcies of several high profile developers will change the way the sector operates in New Zealand, one of the few developers left standing says.
Tim Manning, who is currently involved in a village for over-35s in Avondale, told NBR it would be difficult to replace the experience of bankrupt developers such as [...]
Tim Manning keeps building on new village formula
“PROPERTY DEVELOPER Tim Manning is something of a rarity among his peers in that: a) he hasn’t gone broke and b) he currently has a project on the go. Manning through his company Norwich Properties and prior to that Taradale Developments, has been one of the country’s most prolific residential property developers, having completed by [...]
Opinion: Residential Property Investors Can Relax Post-Budget
Residential Property Investors Can Relax Post-Budget
Ak/NZ rents to rise 10-20% over next two years
Property investors will chase areas and housing types with good capital gain prospects
Market turnover to increase over next 12 months
Markets hate uncertainty and New Zealand’s residential property market all but stalled for three months leading up to this year’s budget. Activity will [...]
Investment in Property Must Remain Certain – By Tim Manning
Close to 70% of New Zealand households own their own homes; Australia has a similar rate of ownership, while the UK is at around 69%, the United States at 65%, France 55% and Germany is below 40%.
So New Zealand has relatively high rates of home ownership. That’s a good thing. Studies have shown that home [...]
Tropical Splendour
One of the world’s top financial investment advisers and newsletter editors, Martin Spring and his wife, Liz, have spent the past few weeks moving into what he says in his Afrodyn newsletter will [...]
Auckland CBD billboard ban goes to public consultation
Aucklanders will be granted a public consultation period in early 2007 to give input, following an Auckland City Council surprise move to “sledgehammer” through new bylaws effectively outlawing billboards in the CBD.
The ACC move is predicted to [...]
Business optimism at a two-year high
New Zealand business confidence jumped to its highest level in two years at the end of 2006, according to National Bank’s monthly survey. And residential property values are holding or gaining slightly in our larger urban areas.
One [...]
Gay men and lesbians are the newest niche in a booming – and increasingly segmented — US retirement housing market
The first ripple of the pink baby-boomer retirement wave has hit the US property market and marks the future for this largely moneyed group and other segments of society who are beginning to look beyond accommodation [...]
World poverty could dip by half as “insiders and outsiders” increasingly divide nations
The number of people in extreme poverty will be halved over the next 25 years, but there are clouds on the horizon that ‘insiders’ and ‘outsiders’ are dividing major countries.
The projection in a new World Bank report, [...]
