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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
It’s only scheduled for a 2011 completion, but the $450 mil Elliot Tower is destined to accommodate some of the 2011 Rugby World Cup hordes. [...]
If you are one of many New Zealanders who own a home, apartment or ‘rental’ built from 1996 onwards, you have probably given some thought in recent days to the approach of the ‘10-year limitation-on-claims’ cut-off for [...]
Some key factors to observe and to get right on any home:
• ‘Good boots’ and ground clearance. A well built and maintained house has all ground-water deflected away and cladding well clear of wet ground. As a [...]
