Housing Affordability Has Improved in NZ
New Zealanders love owning their own home and the good news is housing affordability improved in August 2103. A news item on NZHerald quotes a study by Massey University. In its latest Home...
View ArticleNo Stopping Property Values
The latest report out by Quotable Value confirms the New Zealand property market continues to perform well for vendors selling their homes in some areas but not all. The average property value has gone...
View ArticleRBNZ under pressure from Builders
The RBNZ loan to value ratio (LVR) restrictions are under pressure from Builders and rightly so. The RBNZ restrictions require home buyers have twenty percent deposit and this restriction has cooled...
View ArticleLVR Rates
The Reserve Bank’s pressure on NZ banks to restrict LVR to 20% lending for first-time borrowers has done little other than to prevent those would-be first-time buyers from owning their own homes. Read...
View ArticleA Property For Your Child?
It wasn’t that long ago we were encouraged to start Kiwisaver accounts for our young children. The thought at the time was it could be used by our child to assist in securing a first home. Now it...
View ArticleGreen Door Opens On The North Shore!
With agents already serving the South Auckland, Whangarei, Nelson and Marlborough regions, Gary and Dee Le Petit, founders of Green Door’s unique dual ‘We Sell/You Sell’ real estate service, have now...
View ArticleAuckland Home Values Remain Strong
The Unitary Plan for Auckland was to introduce some radical changes to land size for residential development. Auckland as we know is New Zealand’s largest and fastest growing economy. The population...
View ArticleA Winning Combo For Green Door Real Estate
With the recent news Green Door Real Estate has opened on the North Shore it’s timely to reflect on why this Real Estate group is doing so well. Green Door Real Estate essentially fills a gap in the...
View ArticleIs Buying A House A Good Decision?
Auckland’s median house price has gone from $500,000 to $637,000 – that’s not a bad capital gain in just two years and of course many areas of Auckland are far exceeding that. I wonder what other...
View ArticleVendor Thinking Outside the Box
Putting your house up for sale can be stressful. More so if you believe it’s a buyers market. A buyers market results in properties taking a bit longer to sell. Of course exactly how long a property...
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