QV regional snapshot - February 2010 (08 Mar 2010)
Property values in February are above the same time last year, with the main urban areas performing well.
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Values growing at slower pace (08 Mar 2010)
House values rose 5.5% in the year through February, though the speed of growth is beginning to slow down, according to QV Valuations.
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Awarding winning NZ Investment Game offered again at special price (05 Mar 2010)
This game invented by Frank Newman has been receiving a great deal of praise since being launched last year. It will be on display at the 2010 NZPIF Conference but you can buy it now.
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Bargains galore but not much action (04 Mar 2010)
The property investment market has largely ground to a halt, despite ample bargains currently available.
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Listings hit 11-month high in Auckland (03 Mar 2010)
Listings in Auckland reached an 11-month high in February and the average sales price reached a historical high for the month, according to Barfoot & Thompson.
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Building consents fall for second month (26 Feb 2010)
New Zealand home building consents fell for a second month in January, suggesting the nation's economic recovery is still fragile as property owners fret about tax changes and the potential for higher interest rates.
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Housing minister resigns (25 Feb 2010)
Housing and Fisheries Minister Phil Heatley has resigned his portfolios as a result of further discrepancies over his ministerial credit card spending.
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Housing confidence still upbeat (23 Feb 2010)
New Zealand housing confidence is still upbeat even if it's somewhat tarnished, according to ASB economists.
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Numbers on the up, says Harcourts (23 Feb 2010)
Sales numbers are predicted to improve over the next two months, says Harcourts' chief executive Bryan Thomson.
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Steadying of housing market dropping off (22 Feb 2010)
The steadying of the housing market has dropped off and is now at its "least convincing" since June last year, according to the Mike Pero Mortgages/Infometrics Property Cycle Indicator.
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House prices set to fall in cooling market: ANZ (19 Feb 2010)
The direction for house prices is down in what is a cooling market, according to ANZ's 10 property gauges.
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Trade Me sees record property browsers (19 Feb 2010)
Trade Me Property saw a record number of unique browsers and enquiries about properties in January despite sales being at a two-decade low.
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Relief in property circles as most tax options ruled out (18 Feb 2010)
The vice-president of the Property Investors Federation is relieved that most housing tax options were ruled out in Prime Minister John Key's speech yesterday, but he is wary of what is to come.
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Low number of bad loans make it to mortgagee sale (16 Feb 2010)
Mortgagee sales figures tend to hog the headlines but only a small percentage of loans gone bad ever get to that stage.
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REINZ residential highlights - January 2010 (12 Feb 2010)
With sales the lowest in 20 years, where has been the hardest hit? Find out what parts of the country have fared better than others in terms of sales and price.
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House sales lowest in two decades (12 Feb 2010)
House sales fell close to 20-year lows last month, as uncertainty about property tax changes and ongoing fragility in the economic recovery continued to weigh on the market, according to Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ) figures.
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Falling house sales may indicate faltering economy (11 Feb 2010)
Falling New Zealand house sale volumes and prices in January may indicate a domestic economy that's struggling to maintain momentum, according to economists.
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Change in property rules 'inevitable' (10 Feb 2010)
Property investors will find it hard to argue they should continue to claim depreciation of buildings that were increasing in value while not paying tax on that increase, Tax Working Group member John Shewan says.
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Landlord breaks likely top target (09 Feb 2010)
Prime Minister John Key is expected to target tax breaks for landlords in his first parliamentary speech of the year setting out the Government's plans.
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Key kicks for touch on property tax (09 Feb 2010)
The Government has ruled out almost all the property tax changes proposed by the Tax Working Group.
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Key’s silence on depreciation indicates it’s a focus (09 Feb 2010)
KPMG believes the silence on depreciation today in the Prime Minister's speech on tax indicates that this remains very much a focus for the government in its tax reforms.
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Michael Laws: You're a Shylock industry (09 Feb 2010)
Transcript of a Radio Live conversation between Michael Laws and NZPIF Vice President Andrew King.
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Residential highlights - January 2010 (08 Feb 2010)
The first QV statistics for 2010 show one thing is certain this year - uncertainty remains. Find out what's happening in the main residential areas.
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House values rise last month in 'patchy' market: QV (08 Feb 2010)
House values rose 4.4% in the year through January in what was a "patchy" first month for 2010.
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Landlords fret over possible tax hit (06 Feb 2010)
180,000 Kiwi landlords with about $213 billion invested in the sector could be in for a rude awakening come Tuesday.
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