House prices

Sales rate of around a third at Auckland auctions

16 Feb 19, 7:19am

Apartment buildings with remediation and seismic strength issues didn't deter investors who were prepared to take a punt at the latest apartment auctions
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Median prices in Auckland and Canterbury lower than 12 months ago says REINZ

14 Feb 19, 9:36am

Greg Ninness

131 comments

REINZ says there was a two-tiered property market in January, with prices down in Auckland and Canterbury but firmer elsewhere
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'Effectively zero' house price inflation for NZ

13 Feb 19, 4:47pm

David Hargreaves

76 comments

RBNZ Governor Adrian Orr says central bank has 'historically low level' of house price inflation projected; says investor perceptions 'are being tested at the moment'
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'Litmus test' of NZ house price resilience

13 Feb 19, 7:53am

David Hargreaves

29 comments

KPMG sees 2019 as a key year for house prices following the restrictions placed on overseas buyers late last year and with the current woes in the Australian market
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Sales on a third of properties auctioned over Xmas-New Year period

9 Feb 19, 9:16am

Greg Ninness

14 comments

Although auction activity slows over the Christmas-New Year period, interest.co.nz still recorded the results of 186 auctions. Here's the detail on them
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Getting its houses in order

7 Feb 19, 10:54am

David Hargreaves

77 comments

David Hargreaves adds his voice to those exhorting the Government to keep its nerve on plans to build more houses
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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 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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Harcourts' average December selling price down 2.1% year-on-year

22 Jan 19, 9:43am

Greg Ninness

93 comments

The country's largest real estate agency had a quieter December, with sales down 5.4% and the average selling price down 2.1% compared to December 2017
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Auckland housing market softness could stretch on for several years

17 Jan 19, 11:11am

David Chaston

89 comments

David Chaston says thanks to affordability limits being reached & a range of public policy changes, Auckland home owners ought to buckle in for a prolonged housing market funk
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December Auckland house sales volumes lowest in a decade

17 Jan 19, 9:26am

Gareth Vaughan

158 comments

REINZ highlights 'extremely quiet' December with lowest nationwide house sales volumes in seven years, national median price rises 1.5%
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Fitch predicts soft NZ house price growth

16 Jan 19, 4:49pm

Gareth Vaughan

22 comments

Fitch sees Auckland continuing to record lower house price growth than other NZ regions this year with price falls likely
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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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Auckland property market limp

7 Jan 19, 11:33am

David Chaston

191 comments

Barfoots says the Auckland property market ended 2018 edging towards its first decline in prices for ten years. Sales volumes were weakest in at least 17 years
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The 2018 Interesties Awards

23 Dec 18, 7:02am

Gareth Vaughan

33 comments

The 2018 Interesties featuring Adrian Orr, Jacinda Ardern, Nouriel Roubini, Donald Trump, Winston Peters, Simon Bridges, Co-op Money, Bitcoin, @TranslateRealDT, Boatman, KiwiBuild & more
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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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Residential property sales up 4.2% in 11 months to November versus same period last year

21 Dec 18, 10:52am

Greg Ninness

55 comments

REINZ says sales volumes rose in 2018 compared to 2017, although price trends were mixed - expects 2019 to be a good year for the industry
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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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