
'NO stamp duties, NO capital gains tax'
Colliers' advertising in China for Auckland apartments talks up soft rules.
Colliers' advertising in China for Auckland apartments talks up soft rules.
The number of French interested in buying Kiwi land has grown enough to warrant one locally based Frenchman to establish a French real-estate business.
John Armstrong takes a look at the rules surrounding property investment by foreign nationals in other countries around the world.
The Government's proposed foreign house buyer law change could damage NZ's international reputation, a Parliamentary select committee heard yesterday.
Comedian weighs in on the property debate: "Being Chinese in New Zealand always puts you on the back foot."
Under current rules there are no specific size requirements for non-permanent accommodation - including 9sqm apartments.
Craig Elliffe writes: The officials' paper indicates an exemption will apply when you inherit a property from a deceased estate or have transferred as part of the property settlement.
It's 7.9sq m inside, has no kitchen, sink or toilet and fits little more than a single bed - but a buyer has just paid $104,000 for the shoebox living space.
For a man worth more than $11 billion, Graeme Hart keeps a remarkably low profile. Matt Nippert charts the rise of a most private business magnate.
The floodgates are set to open for Chinese buyers to pour billions into NZ real estate as restrictions on privately held capital are eased: report.
OPINION: Landlord Tim Duffett says it's time to change the whole way we rent homes in New Zealand.
The prestigious suburb - first to reach the $1 million mark in 2003 - has now set a frightening new benchmark.
Goodman Property Trust, the country's second-biggest listed property investor, has ratcheted up development plans with four new industrial projects in Auckland worth $45.8 million.
With annual price growth at 13.9 per cent, it is no surprise Auckland is increasingly dominant in lifting the country's overall growth rate, writes Geoff Barnett.
An Auckland student who became a homeowner at just 22-years-old is not a fair representation of all students, says the national students' association.
While thousands of Aucklanders despair at their chances of owning a house, a determined 22-year-old student is proof it can be done.
The agent says the price demonstrates the fierce competition among investors and developers for properties with subdividable sections.
Argosy Property reported a 25 per cent drop in annual profit, while its rental income rose, as the listed property investor returned to a tax paying position.
When Graeme Wheeler introduced the Reserve Bank's new rules for property investment in Auckland, he said that it was only one tool to manage the housing crisis.
Dampening highly geared speculators' appetite for the Auckland cash-box housing market got the thumbs up from many quarters yesterday.
Graeme Hart's Rank Group confirmed it plans to sell down its stake in Carter Holt Harvey in an initial public offering.
Desperate home-buyers have resorted to sleeping in cars overnight in the hope of securing one of 12 sections when they go up for sale this morning.
Andrew King of the NZ Property Investors Federation outlines the main concerns around housing in Auckland - and clears up some of the facts.
Head-to-head bidders are paying tens of thousands of dollars more at auctions than they would for fixed price homes, new figures reveal.
Amidst the debate around the effects of a capital gains tax on the Auckland property market, TV show 'Our First Home' has proven useful.
Waiheke's biggest landowner has lost a challenge over the zoning on parts of its holdings on the island's eastern tip and on a nearby island.
A three-bedroom North Shore "do-up" has earned its owner nearly $1000 a day - just shy of the salary of a High Court judge - in Auckland's red-hot property market.
The Reserve Bank is considering options to make it harder or more expensive for residential property investors to get bank loans.