Very few analysts or commentators – in reality, none – foresaw the post-COVID boom in house prices, and once it got going we were all keenly looking for when...
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Clearly, the significant changes underway in the mortgage lending sector are topic du jour in the property market. From rising mortgage rates (with more to...
It’s clear that 2021 has been the ‘year of property politics’, but most thoughts now start to turn to 2022 and how the market might shape up next year. Our...
We all know what the reintroduction of loan to value ratio (LVR) rules has done for investor demand in the residential property market – after a peak market...
Over the past couple of months, we at CoreLogic have developed a new measure for assessing the relative risk of a more serious property downturn in each part...
At CoreLogic one of our flagship data series is Buyer Classification, which looks at every property transfer across the country and classifies them according...
There’s no doubt that the economics of property investment in NZ have changed dramatically in a short space of time since the market unexpectedly surged in the...
What a change a few weeks can make. It was only a short time ago that some commentators were predicting that the official cash rate (OCR) wouldn’t start to...
Over the past month the property market has remained at the forefront of news headlines, so here’s an important reminder of recent key points: Property values...
Clearly, the late-March policy changes made by the Government have altered the economics of using a mortgage to buy further investment properties, coming on...
COVID-19 hasn’t significantly undermined the property market so far In this fast-moving COVID environment it’s easy to lose track of everything that’s...
In the coming months, there are likely to be some ‘bargains’ on offer for property investors, although a slowdown in value growth may well mean more emphasis...
As the year draws to a close, we’ve got a good understanding on likely changes to the property market and certainly which buyer groups are under the new...