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Auckland's real estate fail
If you judged by house price growth alone you would think Auckland is the best performing region in NZ economically. But not by a long chalk.
If you judged by house price growth alone you would think Auckland is the best performing region in NZ economically. But not by a long chalk.
More properties were sold last month than during any February since the last property boom of 2007, latest figures from the REINZ show.
Fallout from this week's baby formula contamination threat weighed heavily on the New Zealand dollar yesterday, with news of curtailed orders from China driving the currency lower still.
The monetary policy shadow board's advice to Reserve Bank governor Graeme Wheeler is unchanged from six weeks ago - keep the official cash rate on hold at 3.5 per cent, with a cut the next best....
Despite it being only March, we've already seen 17 central banks around the world reduce interest rates this year.
Residential property investors look to be in the Reserve Bank's sights if it should opt later this year for another LVR-style intervention in the property market, writes Brian Fallow.
The major banks are breathing a sigh of relief that the Reserve Bank has decided to drop the 5+ proposal.
Reserve Banks says landlords could be a danger to New Zealand's financial system in the event of a housing collapse as it looks to tighten lending rules.
The Reserve Bank is cutting staff numbers as it restructures its operations.
Business confidence has strengthened in ANZ's first survey of the year.
In the last year, Auckland house prices were up 16 per cent and it is expected pressures will build up house prices even more.
Building height restrictions and NIMBY attitudes in inner Auckland are standing in the way of an response to Auckland's housing shortage, the Reserve Bank governor says.
As vital signs go, retail sales data for the last three months of 2014 were pretty healthy, writes Brian Fallow.
Enjoy low oil prices while they last, though how long that will be is anyone's guess, writes Brian Fallow.
Does anybody believe the warning from the Governor of the Reserve Bank that Auckland house prices could crash, or in economic jargon, suffer a "sharp correction"?
The money printing by central banks of other nations is dribbling down into our housing market, writes Bernard Hickey.
Reserve Bank governor Graeme Wheeler has hosed down speculation he is minded to cut the official cash rate any time soon, say economists.
Reserve Bank governor Graeme Wheeler today raised the risk of a "sharp correction" in the Auckland housing market.
The New Zealand dollar dropped sharply in sympathy with its Australian counterpart after the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) surprised the market by cutting its overnight cash rate, fuelling....
First-home buyers struggling to get on the property ladder are turning to new builds, which fall outside the high loan-to-value-ratio restrictions.
The Reserve Bank has explicitly acknowledged its next interest rate move could be either up or down, thereby giving the financial markets a green light to price in a cut.
The Reserve Bank's indication that its next interest rate move could be down is expected to reinforce a decline in fixed mortgage rates.
Reserve Bank Governor Graeme Wheeler has left the official cash rate unchanged this morning at 3.5 per cent, and says that won't change for a while.