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KiwiSaver: Helping grandchildren into first home
A reader writes: I intend to settle a cash sum on each of my grandchildren on my demise. What fish hooks exist if I place a lump sum in a KiwiSaver account for each?
A reader writes: I intend to settle a cash sum on each of my grandchildren on my demise. What fish hooks exist if I place a lump sum in a KiwiSaver account for each?
A few weeks ago Auckland Council voted by a narrow majority to impose grotesquely large rate increases on thousands of Auckland's ratepayers.
How to heat a castle? That was the challenge for Christchurch engineer Alan Cooke when he got the job at Riverstone Castle being built by Dot Smith outside Oamaru.
Alexandra Park's chief executive Dominique Dowding said apartments would be for sale from February and she predicted occupation of the Green Lane West Rd places by the end of 2016.
Hundreds of new homes will be developed on Housing Corporation land in some Auckland suburbs, including Avondale, New Lynn and South Auckland.
A 7.8ha coastal section owned by descendants of one of the original settler families of Mangawhai is on the market for the first time in 125 years.
Expectation is a powerful thing. It's the reason 45,000 sections in Auckland are sitting there ready to go, with all the connections to water, power and roads - but no houses.
Landlords with properties in Otara, Mangere, Glen Innes and Mangere Bridge are reaping Auckland's highest returns.
Real estate industry experts have labelled the latest residential property revaluations dangerous, with calls for the mass appraisal system to be overhauled or scrapped.
LoanMarket mortgage adviser Bruce Patten talks to NZ Property Editor Anne Gibson about the property market and Aucklanders increasingly borrowing for home renovations.
The average household's spending on housing climbed 11.1 per cent over the past two years, outstripping growth in incomes.
New residential mortgage lending hit $4.9 billion last month, its highest level since last March and a 7.2 per cent increase on October last year, according to the Reserve Bank.
A plan aimed at tackling Auckland's housing supply shortage has surpassed expectations in its first year, the Government and Auckland Mayor Len Brown say.
The days of children screaming in delight as they whiz along a flying fox might be numbered at one Auckland housing development.
Home buyers seeking low-deposit mortgages could find it even tougher to secure funds after Kiwibank said it was suspending new loans.
A humble road in central Kawerau has been revealed as a bargain hunter's dream, laying claim to the cheapest stretch of residential real estate anywhere in New Zealand.
A chunk of land in big enough for 30 to 60 homes, and in one of Auckland's most affluent suburbs, is on the market.
Low-income ratepayers in Auckland got more than $10 million of state aid to help pay last year's rates bills.
The number of state houses has dropped by 1600 in the past three years as grand plans for more state homes in Auckland appear to have been hit by rising land values.
For sale: 287 homes, most in spitting distance of Sydney's Opera House. Wanted: Somewhere to shift a low-income, angry community.
As a long term landlord Andrew Bruce seeks long term tenancies because he takes a long term view of his investment properties.
Home buyers heeding the Prime Minister’s advice to consider an apartment can qualify to use KiwiSaver funds.
A 14-unit Ponsonby apartment development is planned for a pocket 430sqm site in a street once the domain of character villas.
Apartment owners in one of six Princes Wharf blocks are about to be hit by a big ground-rent hike from this weekend - which they call 'outrageous'
The rare opportunity to own a historic Auckland mansion is up for grabs - but it comes with a lofty $5.2 million price tag.
A wrangle over wardrobes at a Remuera home that sold for $3.65 million has led a conduct tribunal to order to two top Auckland real estate agents to pay $10,000 to replace them.
Auckland house prices have hit a new high and national sales volumes rose 11.8 per cent last month in a big spring resurgence.