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NZ Property Magazine

April '10 Issue

Future Auckland hot spots

Housing around a third of the country's population, Auckland offers a plethora of investment opportunities. We take a look at up-and-coming areas to give investors throughout the country the opportunity to tap into future growth in the largest city in New Zealand.

Commercial 101

In part four of our series, Karen Clark looks at how to make a potential deal stack up and what needs to be taken into consideration when doing the number-crunching.

Illegal renovations

This is one topic that many investors would rather ignore than deal with, but we look at why it's important you know what to do if you find yourself owning unpermitted work.

The debt diaries

This three-part series will look at how investors can go about collecting debt owed by tenants. Our first article covers why prevention is better than cure and who can help in checking potential tenants' history.

Profile

Ever considered renovating the kitchen into a bedroom? Oliver Phillips has and it's a renovation strategy that has proven rather lucrative. But wait, there's more to this Christchurch investor's strategy.

Also in the April 2010 issue:

  • News: Property prices picked to fall 13% on govt package; new HNZ scheme to benefit landlords, Reno strategies gaining traction
  • Commercial news: One step behind but in recovery
  • Diary: What's on for property investors this month? Find out where the hottest events are happening around the country.
  • Mortgage commentary: With many lenders cutting fixed rates, what does it mean for investors' borrowing? Should they be fixing rather than float?
  • Housing commentary: The numbers haven't been looking too flash in terms of minimal sales and ample properties for sale, but optimism in the
    property market remains buoyant.

Ask an expert: If a property is under-performing, should you cut your losses or hold on for capital gains and what does PPSR mean?

Columns:

  • Accounting
  • Mark Withers explores the hidden potential behind possible tax and
  • depreciation changes
  • Mortgages
  • Structuring your bank accounts to minimise fees can have a big impact on loan terms for your investment properties. Jonathan Michell explains how
  • Economics
  • Khoon Goh goes into detail over how and why demand and household size affects the housing market
  • Commercial
  • Now is the perfect time to be on the hunt for commercial property deals, according to Mahesh Ranchhod
  • Valuation
  • Steve McNamara goes into detail on how potential changes to tax and
  • depreciation will affect investors and the value of their properties
  • NZPIF: News from around the regions.
December '10 Issue
North v South: This month in NZ Property Investor magazine we have pitted the North Island v the South Island to see which one stacks up with the best investment properties.
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November '10 Issue
NZ Property Investor presents its annual health check of the residential investment market and finds out what investors are doing and how they have changed their approach in the past 12 months.
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October '10 Issue
Shaken to the Core How the earthquake will affect the housing market and what that means for both current and future investors in the city. Will prices in Christchurch drop to their knees, or will they be pushed up due to heightened demand, as people look for replacement houses?
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September '10 Issue
We all know the old saying about how much Kiwis love bricks and mortar as an investment but some of us take that even further.
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August '10 Issue
Learning from the past is a powerful tool to help you succeed in the future. In this issue of the NZ Property Investor we look at just that: what lessons you can take from the recent property downturn and apply it to your investing strategies.
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July '10 Issue
In this issue we profile inspirational property investor, speaker and author Steve McKnight on how property saved his life and why he feels so compelled to spread the property word.
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June '10 Issue
Big Bad Bill English puffed a lot of hot air over property investors’ heads in the lead up to the May Budget. But what do the announced changes really mean for the future of property investment.
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May '10 Issue
With the more traditional perks of property investing looking shaky, focus will shift towards pure cash flow. We have exclusive figures on where you can find positive cash flow properties in the current market and how to spot potential.
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April '10 Issue
Housing around a third of the country's population, Auckland offers a plethora of investment opportunities. We take a look at up-and-coming areas to give investors throughout the country the opportunity to tap into future growth in the largest city in New Zealand.
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March '10 Issue
The rules around residential property investment are going to change forever. In our lead feature this month we look at the possible changes, what you can do to prepare for them and how they could affect the market in the future.
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February '10 Issue
Deciphering all the different statistics and market information that's available on the state of the property market is an art in itself. This issue we look at what established investors listen to and why, plus we have survey results from Landlords.co.nz readers on who they rate as the best economist, commentator and author.
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January '10 Issue
At the beginning of a New Year where growth in the housing market is still tentative, predicting the year ahead requires psychic abilities. We do the next best thing and talk to experts on what they think will happen in 2010.
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