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IRD to clamp down on speculators
The Government has proposed giving the taxman more resources to crack down on residential property speculators.
The Government has proposed giving the taxman more resources to crack down on residential property speculators.
A group representing 110 lessees with houses on Cornwall Park Trust Board land through Greenlane and One Tree Hill has rejected a proposal to change their lease terms.
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Land tax might be one of the answers to reducing tax incentives for rental property investors, writes Bernard Hickey.
Head-to-head bidders are paying tens of thousands of dollars more at auctions than they would for fixed price homes, new figures reveal.
The case for taxing the income of residential property investors is compelling.
The survey's index lifted four points from its March level to 129. It has only rarely been higher than this in the past 10 years.
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The Cornwall Park Trust Board has proposed sweeping changes to the leases on 110 Auckland properties it owns, including axing five-yearly mandatory house repainting demands.
Developers who have been sitting on Auckland land earmarked for fast-tracked housing are being warned to start building or lose their special privileges.
It has a CV of $5.2 million and sits on 2591sq m of prime land at the end of a small cul-de-sac off Mountain Rd on the eastern slopes of Mt Eden.
Thousands of property owners are now sitting on million-dollar goldmines thanks to rampant capital gain.
The average Auckland home earned nearly $230 a day in the past year - about twice what the average worker made in their job.
A lick of paint, some new carpet and Auckland's fizzing property market have increased an apartment's value by $55K in just two weeks.
Regulatory moves to curb bank lending to residential property investors are a live possibility, says Reserve Bank deputy governor Grant Spencer.
Andrew Little says a speech from the Reserve Bank deputy governor was effectively saying there was a housing crisis – something John Key had refused to accept.
For the first time in a single month, 10 per cent of all properties sold around the country went for more than $1 million.
A fight has erupted over one of New Zealand's biggest leaky building payouts, as 253 owners of a North Shore apartment/hotel tower battle one another.
One of the country's largest off-site housing prefabricators, eHome NZ, owes secured creditors $13.9 million.
Prototype display suites have been built of the first Wynyard Quarter residential precinct, planned for near Auckland's waterfront.
The rural property market has remained remarkably resilient in the face of lower farm-gate prices and dry summer conditions, with prices - by some measures - returning to pre-global financial crisis....
Prefabricated homes offering up to 15 per cent reductions in building costs are gaining a powerful boost from a green think-tank seeking sustainable ways of tackling the housing crisis.