Rents

Simon Bridges throws stones at Labour over rising rents and forgets he's standing in a glass house

12 Feb 19, 5:00am

Opposition leader Simon Bridges' figures on rising rents are more interesting for what they don't say than what they do say
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Ring-fencing rental losses to cost property investors $190m a year

7 Dec 18, 2:33pm

Jenée Tibshraeny

132 comments

The IRD can't say for certain how ring-fencing rental losses will affect the residential property market, but notes investors suffering losses on their rentals are currently getting tax breaks of $2000 a year
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House prices and rents are mostly up but rental yields are moving sideways

7 Nov 18, 5:00am

Greg Ninness

70 comments

Little overall movement in rental yields for residential property investors - particularly low returns in Auckland, Tasman, Queenstown-Lakes
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Rents rising around the country but declined in Auckland over winter

15 Oct 18, 9:44am

Greg Ninness

44 comments

Rental growth strong in Wellington, Queenstown, Rotorua, Napier and Whanganui, but weak in Auckland and Christchurch
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Who really creates value in an economy?

12 Sep 18, 9:38am

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16 comments

UK academic says although profits have recovered post GFC, investment remains weak. The reason is 'neoliberal ideology' & its academic cousin 'public choice' theory
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Housing market slowly turning as rental yields start to rise

19 Jul 18, 7:56am

Greg Ninness

82 comments

Residential rental yields appear to have bottomed out and are starting to rise as capital gains dry up and rents rise
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Westpac: 10% capital gains tax would see house prices fall by 11%

19 Jun 18, 6:00am

Jenée Tibshraeny

125 comments

Westpac models how the different taxes being considered by the Tax Working Group would affect house prices
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Rents rising faster than wages in Auckland and Wellington

9 May 18, 7:44am

Greg Ninness

133 comments

Rent rises outpacing wage growth in Auckland and Wellington but Canterbury renters are on the pig's back
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Unraveling some of the mysteries of rent behaviour

4 May 18, 12:25pm

Rodney Dickens

42 comments

Rodney Dickens doubts landlords' costs drive rents, suggesting it's more likely income growth does. But he finds there is confusion in the data with the biggest threat from inflation
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Average annual rental growth slowed to 4.1% from 7% in 2017

10 Feb 18, 8:49am

Greg Ninness

80 comments

Residential rents are still rising but the rate at which they are rising dropped dramatically last year
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B&T says Auckland rents increasing more slowly

31 Jan 18, 2:27pm

Greg Ninness

7 comments

Average rents in Auckland increased by 4.2% to 4.3% last year compared to 5% or 6% in previous years, leaving some landlords out of pocket
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Westpac economist sees big decline in migration, impacting house prices and rents

8 Dec 17, 11:34am

Greg Ninness

102 comments

Westpac report says migration is already slowing and this will 'reinforce downward pressure on house prices'
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'He can't have it both ways'

8 Dec 17, 10:13am

Guest

50 comments

National Party housing spokesperson responds to Phil Twyford's first big policy speech on how he will tackle housing affordability, housing availability and home ownership
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The future of housing

3 Dec 17, 6:04am

admin

153 comments

The new Housing Minister sets out how he plans to "build communities", deal with homlessness, "build 100,000 affordable homes for first home buyers", help renters, and sort out the tax incentives
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End the 'soft privatisation' of state housing

25 Aug 17, 9:38am

Guest

37 comments

Alan Johnson says we must acknowledge that the value of state, or publicly-owned, housing is so much more than its balance sheet worth, and significant efforts must be put into increasing our publicly funded housing stock
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Innovating our way out of New Zealand’s housing disaster

24 Aug 17, 7:41am

Guest

13 comments

Jess Berentson-Shaw says building a large not-for-profit rental sector would rebuild NZ's foundations and realise a vision where homes are at the heart of our wellbeing
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Rents are rising faster than wages in Auckland & Wellington but falling in Christchurch

9 Aug 17, 8:57am

Greg Ninness

64 comments

Aucklanders caught between high rent increases and low wage growth - high immigration likely to be a contributing factor
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Rising essentials, housing costs hit poor hardest

27 Jul 17, 11:42am

Alex Tarrant

114 comments

Beneficiaries and lower-income groups have been hit the hardest by typical cost rises over the past year as housing and other price increases make their mark
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Auckland rents on Trade Me unchanged for six months

24 Jul 17, 11:23am

Greg Ninness

105 comments

Housing rents have plateaued in Auckland and are declining in Christchurch, rising in Wellington, regions starting to cool, says Trade Me Property
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The Judith Collins effect

18 Jul 17, 10:55am

Alex Tarrant

27 comments

Flat prices in June quarter bring annual inflation rate back to 1.7% as cheaper petrol, domestic airfares offset rising rent, food and electricity prices
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