First home buyers

February house price rise pushes home ownership further out of reach

24 Mar 19, 6:02am

Lower quartile house prices were surprisingly strong in February - making life more difficult for aspiring first home buyers
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House sales down 9.5% in February

13 Mar 19, 12:32pm

David Hargreaves

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REINZ says sales were down at a time when they are normally strong; Auckland had lowest number of sales in a non-January month since 2010
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Overexposed?

5 Mar 19, 8:00am

David Hargreaves

90 comments

David Hargreaves crunches some numbers on the growing proportion of first home buyers in an uncertain housing market
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Mortgage growth stays steady

28 Feb 19, 3:29pm

David Hargreaves

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Latest Reserve Bank monthly figures show mortgage credit growth remains above 6%, while agricultural and business credit are rising again but consumer credit is falling
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First home buyers still strong in the market

27 Feb 19, 3:47pm

David Hargreaves

63 comments

Latest Reserve Bank figures show first home buyers getting a record high share of new mortgage money for the second consecutive month
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Auckland now affordable for first home buyers

22 Feb 19, 5:00am

Greg Ninness

98 comments

Interest.co.nz Home Loan Affordability Report says the slide in both interest rates and lower quartile house prices means Auckland is now considered affordable for first home buyers
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It's never say never for Fletcher with big building projects

20 Feb 19, 2:30pm

David Hargreaves

9 comments

A year after formally pulling out of tendering for big building projects following huge financial losses, Fletcher Building is tentatively signalling a likely re-entry into such work later this calendar year
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Mike Greer to build 104 KiwiBuild homes

20 Feb 19, 11:14am

Jenée Tibshraeny

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Cheapest KiwiBuild homes announced, as Mike Greer commits to building 104 homes in Christchurch and West Auckland
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Mortgage growth stays strong

31 Jan 19, 3:43pm

David Hargreaves

7 comments

Latest Reserve Bank monthly figures show mortgage credit growth remains above 6%, while non-bank lending has surged in the past month
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First home buyers hit by rising lower quartile prices and higher interest rates

31 Jan 19, 12:36pm

Greg Ninness

71 comments

Home Loan Affordability Reports show a rise in prices and interest rates at the end of last year made it harder for first home buyers to get their own home
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First home buyers enjoying their slice of the action

29 Jan 19, 3:50pm

David Hargreaves

79 comments

Latest Reserve Bank monthly figures show first home buyers getting a record high share of new mortgage money last month
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KiwiBuild not costing us, yet...

19 Jan 19, 9:00am

Jenée Tibshraeny

59 comments

Why five months into the 2019 financial year none of the $90 million Treasury had set aside for KiwiBuild had been touched
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QV sees 'busy' property market in the early stages of 2019

16 Jan 19, 5:00am

Gareth Vaughan

69 comments

Nationwide housing values grew at their slowest rate since 2012 in the December year, but QV expects 'busy' start to 2019 thanks to the RBNZ loosening LVR restrictions
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The houses have it

22 Dec 18, 7:16am

David Hargreaves

31 comments

David Hargreaves says the interlinked issues of KiwiBuild, immigration and the overall housing market performance in 2019 will together be the key determinant of who forms a Government in 2020
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The decline of the housing investor

20 Dec 18, 3:30pm

David Hargreaves

47 comments

Latest Reserve Bank monthly figures show the share of borrowing by the housing investor is continuing to drop sharply to new lows
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First home buyers battling rising house prices & higher interest rates

19 Dec 18, 5:00am

Greg Ninness

52 comments

First home buyers being squeezed between rising lower quartile housing prices & higher mortgage interest rates, putting a dampener on their home ownership hopes
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Housing NZ loans and grants available for more pricey regional new builds

18 Dec 18, 11:46am

Jenée Tibshraeny

8 comments

Around 230 more first home buyers expected to qualify for Housing New Zealand grants a year, and 10 for Welcome Home Loans under scheme tweaks
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Fletcher sells Formica for $1.2b

18 Dec 18, 9:04am

David Hargreaves

10 comments

Fletcher Building says Formica sale completes sell-off of non-core businesses; will now reinstate dividends for shareholders
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Is Goldilocks in the house?

6 Dec 18, 10:11am

David Hargreaves

110 comments

David Hargreaves wonders whether perhaps we really can achieve a subdued, but not falling, house market - 'neither too hot, nor too cold'
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Is there life left in the housing investor?

2 Dec 18, 7:02am

David Hargreaves

87 comments

David Hargreaves looks at some of the past impacts of the RBNZ's 'LVR speed limit' home loan restrictions and ponders how the latest changes to the LVRs might affect the housing landscape
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