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Hope for housing affordability as property prices fall
New Zealand’s housing affordability is slowly showing signs of improvement, on the back of falling house prices and a gradual ...
Latest OCR rise may not hit mortgage rates
As expected the Reserve Bank (RBNZ) delivered another 0.5% increase in the official cash rate (OCR) today, taking it to 3% – the ...
Turning point for profitable resales as gains start to fall
The resale performance of residential real estate has reached a turning point, CoreLogic NZ’s latest Pain & Gain report shows, ...
First home buyers: get in now or wait?
A question we’ve been asked many times recently is: as a first home buyer (FHB), should I purchase now, or wait and see if I
House Price Index shows property values falling at fastest ...
CoreLogic’s House Price Index (HPI) shows that the current market downturn became further entrenched in July. The national measure ...
Multiple challenges to test NZ’s declining market for rest of ...
The combination of sharply rising interest rates and the large wave of refinancing of existing mortgages that will occur over the ...
Construction costs rising at the fastest pace on record
CoreLogic NZ’s Cordell Construction Cost Index (CCCI) for Q2 2022 showed national residential construction cost pressures have ...
High inflation and full employment mean inevitable cash rate hike
The Reserve Bank duly delivered another 0.5% rise in the official cash rate (OCR) today, as had been widely expected, taking it to 2.5%
House Price Index: Downturn sets in with a hat-trick of -0.8% ...
CoreLogic’s House Price Index (HPI), which is the most robust measure of property value change in the market, shows that the ...
A temporary respite for low deposit borrowers?
The latest Reserve Bank mortgage lending data shows that overall activity remains subdued, with interest-only lending drifting ...
Half of New Zealand suburbs now declining in value
Evidence of Aotearoa’s housing market downturn is becoming more widespread, with 486 suburbs recording a fall in prices over the ...
Equity is a rising factor for property buyers
CoreLogic's Buyer Classification data for May shows some fairly stable patterns for first home buyers (FHBs) and mortgaged ...
New Zealand property values up by almost 300% since 2003
Since December 2003 (i.e. almost 20 years ago), the national average property value has risen from $263,562 to $1,027,121 – an ...
Current investor landscape: a focus on high yields?
Over the next few years, capital gains may well be harder to come by for property investors, which means the ‘nuts and bolts’ are ...
CoreLogic HPI: Widespread fall in NZ house prices continues
CoreLogic’s House Price Index (HPI) shows that the downwards momentum in NZ residential real estate values continued throughout May ...