Auckland housing accord

Council floats possibility of Unitary Plan change to tackle housing affordability

10 Oct 17, 3:28pm

Auckland Council eyes using property development arm Panuku Development Auckland to help establish more affordable housing
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What the Special Housing Areas produced

2 Aug 17, 7:36pm

David Hargreaves

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Figures revealed by the Auckland Council show over 5,500 building consents were issued within the 154 SHAs, but 25 of the areas had no consent activity at all prior to being disestablished
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'Affordability in the eye of the beholder'

4 Jul 17, 9:36am

Alex Tarrant

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Nick Smith says housing affordability is in the eye of the beholder; Defends government’s track record on Auckland affordable housing supply; Says can't regulate prices in SHA developments, despite desire for 10% affordable
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High mortgage debt more concerning than house prices, says Treasury

4 Oct 16, 9:09am

Jenée Tibshraeny

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Gabriel Makhlouf bold on highlighting risk of high mortgage debt levels, but shy on calling for house prices to fall
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Keep it low and wide

1 May 16, 5:02am

Bernard Hickey

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Bernard Hickey points out a 1% land tax on all property owners would now allow a 5.5% cut in personal tax rates or a 10% GST rate. So why won't John Key do another big tax switch?
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Get ahead of the curve

24 Apr 16, 5:02am

Bernard Hickey

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The Reserve Bank needs to signal a progression of new lending controls that would kick in as interest rates fall to reset the expectations of landlords and lever itself out from between a rock and another rock
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A big future liability

17 Apr 16, 5:02am

Bernard Hickey

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Bernard Hickey says the Govt's storing up an enormous social and financial liability by allowing Auckland's housing supply crisis to remain unsolved; says Bill English should apply the actuaries in his social investment programme to Auckland housing
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Let's embrace the flood

28 Jun 15, 5:02am

Bernard Hickey

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Auckland's housing market faces a perfect storm of rising demand and supply shortages. A flood of investment from China into new homes could do the trick
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Bravery required for Densification Accord

14 Jun 15, 6:03am

Bernard Hickey

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Bernard Hickey argues the OECD report calling for more intense housing development around central Auckland should be the wake-up call for a Densification Accord between the Govt and the Council
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Housing crises rhetoric overlooks capacity of building industry to meet demand

10 May 15, 7:20am

Guest

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Michael Barnett says Auckland house prices will stabilise only when the number of houses being built matches the number of people seeking them - and we are long way from that
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Auckland's Bonfire of the Properties

10 May 15, 5:03am

Bernard Hickey

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Bernard Hickey explains why Auckland landlords will be celebrating a week of fantastic news for house prices and everyone else will be grinding their teeth
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Time Govt fronted on Auckland houses

6 May 15, 4:43pm

David Hargreaves

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If it believes its own words the Government should be prepared to take centralised control of Auckland housing development
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Auckland's supply side land mine

3 May 15, 5:03am

Bernard Hickey

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Bernard Hickey says the Government and Auckland Council need to agree on funding big new water and rail infrastructure to have any hope of addressing Auckland's housing shortage crisis
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How to build rational building expectations?

20 Apr 15, 10:39am

Oliver Hartwich

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Oliver Hartwich disagrees with the RBNZ over how long it would take to fix the housing supply problem
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'Talk to the hand'

19 Apr 15, 7:00am

Bernard Hickey

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Bernard Hickey looks at Grant Spencer's desperate plea for some 'mates' to slow Auckland house price inflation and how the Government simply ignored it
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A city unmoored

12 Apr 15, 5:00am

Bernard Hickey

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Bernard Hickey argues Auckland's housing market has officially disembarked from the rest of the country. He looks at how to pull it back to shore before it hits the rocks
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