Riding the wave: Keeping your cool as mortgage rates rise
About ten years ago, I decided I’d like to be a half-decent surfer. So like all aspiring, fresh-faced wave riders, I bought a board and headed out to Raglan to get my fix and learn my new sport. But...
View ArticleFirst home buyers back in the market as property trends take an upturn
When the summer sun gets a bit hot, we’re eager for the leaves to start changing, signalling autumn. When winter’s grip brings frost, wind and rain, we’re all watching closely for the pink buds of...
View ArticleNoughts and crosses – is the property market swinging from over to under-supply?
I seem to love talking about circles and cycles, but this month’s column is centred around the opposite – the cross-shaped graph of supply and demand, with equilibrium sitting smack in the centre....
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The problem with all stick and no carrots
Claire Williamson In another life, I spend a lot of time in the bush, taking action to support nature and biodiversity to improve and grow, and restore native forests and ecosystems. A lot of nature is...
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The tide is turning
Claire Williamson The housing market is a very cyclical beast. It rises and falls as economic, social and political factors change, and just like the tides, over the last few years we’ve experienced...
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The debt to income issue
While we’re starting to think the Reserve Bank may be crying wolf about continuing to increase interest rates at the next few meetings in February and April, one thing they are now quite sure about is...
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Brighter times ahead?
New Zealand doesn’t have a true capital gains tax when it comes to the property market (something that property investors, economists and central government are divided upon) but we do have a funny...
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Time to look at fixed rate
While the Government’s controversial housing policy changes for first home buyers are currently front and centre; the slightly less talked about topic as we close out the last month of Autumn seemed to...
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The problem with all
While New Zealanders for a long time have enjoyed a love-affair with property investment, the shifting regulatory environment from government and the Reserve Bank has confused a lot of would-be...
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