28 January 2021 Activity is already heating up at residential property auctions and there's plenty of activity on the commercial property front too
27 January 2021 Global independent economic researchers Capital Economics have doubled down on forecasts of rising interest rates from next year and now see quantitative easing ending by the middle of this year
26 January 2021 Low interest rates have created winners and losers in the housing market as the COVID-19 pandemic rumbles on
25 January 2021 Economist Brian Easton says the Treasury forecasts suggest the economy is doing better than expected after the Covid shock
22 January 2021 Govt to unveil demand-side housing response and 'high-level' decisions around the RMA in February, followed by supply-side measures at the May Budget
21 January 2021 ANZ economists expect the housing market will cool 'in time', but exactly when is highly uncertain, given that momentum in the market can be slow to moderate
21 January 2021 Sales of both farm and lifestyle properties in the fourth quarter well up on a year earlier
20 January 2021 David Hargreaves says the ability of first home buyers to keep competing in the viciously competitive housing market will be a key thing to watch this year
19 January 2021 Economists see the longer term outlook for inflation as more stable, therefore reducing pressure on the Reserve Bank to keep lowering interest rates
14 January 2021 ANZ economists forecast an OCR cut to 0.10% in May, but no longer see the RBNZ making the leap into negative territory
11 January 2021 Encouraged by the RBNZ, one major bank offers a 2.29% one year fixed home loan rate. It is almost certain to signal a new round of mortgage rate cuts that will juice up the already-hot housing market
23 December 2020 Broad discrepancy between the interest rates the major banks use to test mortgage borrowers' ongoing ability to service their loans
22 December 2020 The benefits of rising wages and lower interest rates on mortgage payments for first home buyers have been more than wiped out by rising house prices
22 December 2020 ASB, BNZ, Westpac and Kiwibank indicate they will not be matching ANZ's requirement for housing investors to have 40% deposits at this stage
21 December 2020 With hundreds of fixed term rental agreements on Auckland CBD apartments about to expire, investors are worried about the potential for rising vacancy levels and falling rents
17 December 2020 Property prices have surged in Akaroa and Waihi Beach but there were surprising price falls in Onetangi on Waiheke Island and in Coromandel
15 December 2020 Barfoot & Thompson's auction numbers have started to dip ahead of the Christmas break
11 December 2020 Sallies call for RBNZ to provide banks with guidance to help curb risk-aversion when it comes to lending against housing with alternative tenures such as progressive & co-ownership ownership
09 December 2020 Reserve Bank expects 'temporary, small negative effect' on economic activity after reintroduction of mortgage lending limits next March
08 December 2020 ASB economists say NZ can now 'probably overbuild' for the next couple of years, though there is 'some risk' in doing this
03 December 2020 New research identifies thousands of coastal properties in the 1-in-100-year flood zone that have another 15 years before facing serious insurance issues
29 November 2020 ANZ's economists don't think the current heat in the housing market will last, expecting it to cool next year
28 November 2020 Latest Reserve Bank monthly mortgage figures show $7.8 bln advanced for mortgages last month - beating previous record set only a month earlier; investors on the march
27 November 2020 Rents in Auckland up by $13 a week compared to a year ago, while rents in Queenstown are down $114 a week
24 November 2020 Auckland's housing crisis starting to ease as supply starts to overtake demand and accumulated housing shortage starts to shrink
19 November 2020 Latest Reserve Bank figures on household debt to income ratios show more mortgage money being borrowed at in excess of five times annual income - but Auckland may be reaching limits
13 November 2020 Geoff Bascand clarifies the RBNZ wants to reimpose the exact same LVR restrictions in place earlier this year, so most owner-occupiers will need a 20% deposit
12 November 2020 Kiwibank economists say the current performance of the housing market is 'not consistent' with an economy in the midst of the worst recession in 100 years
04 November 2020 Barfoot & Thompson's October sales jump 60% year-on-year, average selling price tops $1 million for the first time
03 November 2020 CEO David McLean says Westpac NZ is open for business but has not loosened its LVR lending limits since the Reserve Bank said it could
30 October 2020 Latest Reserve Bank monthly mortgage figures show over $7.3 bln advanced for mortgages last month; advances to first home buyers hit record high also; high LVR lending to investors has tripled since June
30 October 2020 The number of new homes being completed in Auckland appears to be easing back from recent highs
28 October 2020 Jenée Tibshraeny looks at the tough calls the Government needs to make around spreading the cost of climate and natural disaster risk
27 October 2020 House prices at the bottom of the market have been largely flat in Auckland for several months but have kept rising in most of the rest of the country
26 October 2020 Lifestyle blocks sales up 70% compared to a year ago, prices up 8.6% over the same period
22 October 2020 ANZ chairman John Key warns against creating 'zombie companies' and 'an asset bubble that's going to burst on us'
21 October 2020 Adrian Orr says the RBNZ is seeing early signs of house prices being driven by high leverage loans and by investors rather than households
20 October 2020 BNZ report warns the renewed surge in house prices could increase the wealth gap between the haves and have nots
05 October 2020 First home buyers' share of the mortgage market has almost doubled over the last five years
