New Zealand’s rental market is catching its breath as job growth stalls and politics take centre stage. The slowdown signals not decline, but the pause before...
Tag - housing policy
When Chris Hipkins unveiled Labour’s new idea, a targeted capital gains tax on property investors to fund three free doctor visits for every New Zealander, he...
Labour’s Future Fund aims to reshape investment away from property speculation and toward “productive” assets. For investors, the opportunity—and risk—lies in...
Nationwide, one-third of new tenancies are being signed below the outgoing rent, with the biggest drops in Auckland and Wellington. Don’t follow headlines into...
Despite the political noise, loosening New Zealand’s foreign buyer ban is unlikely to shift the property market needle—especially with a potential $5m price...
If a government minister slips the same line, verbatim, into two high profile speeches across two months, then there is really not much easter left in the egg...
The Government is signalling that it wants to take a more flexible approach to new building insulation standards. The goal is to align building requirements...
More than 1,500 New Zealand landlords have shared their views in APIA’s latest Landlord Sentiment and Policy Confidence Survey. The early findings paint a...
