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 [...]
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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, [...]
Massive downtown ‘next century landmark’ apartment tower planned
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. [...]
Electronic monitoring technology provides a non-destructive method of protecting NZ homeowners from moisture, rot and financial ruin.
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 [...]
Early warning “leaky” signs for home owners and developers in case your builder/architect/supplier has dumped you in it’
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 [...]
MRE Property continues to “look on the bright side”
Ian Revell from MRE Property (ex Milford Real Estate MREINZ) is always one of those very positive property punters(PPPs) and he believes that there are a number of positive signs around, despite a tiny increase in [...]
Auckland’s ‘Tank Farm’ put on hold again
Surprise, surprise; the best site for an iconic super stadium, the Wynyard tank farm – thought to be the piece de resistance in the transformation of the city’s waterfront — has become a scramble almost in the [...]
