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Reserve Bank stick to their guns in fight against inflation
Given the (slowly) emerging evidence that inflation has peaked and that the economy is now starting to soften, it wasn’t a surprise ...
We may not see a property investor comeback for a while yet
There’s been an increasing number of hurdles placed in front of property investors in the past couple of years. With weaker market ...
No reprieve for persistent property price falls
Aotearoa New Zealand’s housing market downturn continues to roll on, with CoreLogic’s House Price Index (HPI) recording a 0.3% fall ...
New Zealand's Q4 CPI figure steady, but still high
Today’s Stats NZ figures showed that inflation on the consumer price index (CPI) was unchanged in Q4, remaining at 7.2%. Categories ...
Too soon to conclude an imminent end to the property market ...
CoreLogic NZ’s Q4 Property Market & Economic Update shows the quarterly drop in home values was the smallest decline since May ...
Opinion: New Zealand LVRs not likely to be loosened this year
Early this year I was quoted in an article that explored how the country’s housing market might change if the current ‘artificial’ ...
Annual construction cost growth hits a record high as ...
A nascent drop off in the number of new housing consents could soon help to ease the pressure on New Zealand’s residential ...
Mapping the Market plots a testing year for NZ property values
Aotearoa’s lifestyle and more affordable housing markets are among only a handful of suburbs to have defied the national property ...
New Zealand’s 2022 property market downturn deeper than predicted
The New Zealand property market has experienced a bigger downturn in property values and sales volumes than expected in 2022, ...
Tough conditions for new investment purchases
Mortgaged multiple property owners (MPOs, including investors) have been in the firing line lately, as Government/Reserve Bank ...
High mortgage rates and recession – a bad combination for ...
The RBNZ’s final Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) for 2022 surprised many due to their indication the country’s economic outlook is ...
One-year fixed mortgage rates of 7% or more on the cards
Given the evidence that inflation is proving tougher to stamp out than was previously expected, it doesn’t come as much surprise ...
One year of OCR increases, with more to come
The Reserve Bank of NZ delivered another widely anticipated 0.5% increase in the official cash rate (OCR) today, taking it to 3.5% ...
New mortgage lending activity still very quiet
Gross mortgage lending flows remained soft in August, with low-deposit finance hard to secure – just 0.7% of investors got such a ...
First home buyers quietly returning to the market
First home buyers (FHBs) accounted for 25% of property purchases in August, their highest market share since December last year.