The Housing Minister insists foreign buyers are “not having a significant effect” on the Auckland housing market and rejects Labour’s claims offshore Chinese buyers could be buying as much as 30 % of houses.See more commentary here.
The number of people in their early 30s who own their own home has dropped from half in 2001 to about a third. Read this Radio New Zealand Insight Programme article.
“Higher costs for rent, and cigarettes and tobacco, had a greater effect on lower-spending households,” consumer prices manager Matt Haigh said, “Rent was up 2 percent this year, with the largest increases being observed in Auckland.” Living...
The article in the journal Social Science and Medicine – Population Health by Dr Kimberley O’Sullivan at He Kainga Oranga/Housing and Health Research Programme was co-authored by researchers from the University of Otago and more unusually, young researchers from...
HOUSING NZ ‘NOT THE ONLY PLAYER’ Speaking before Housing NZ revealed its error, Social Housing Minister Amy Adams defended the agency’s efforts, saying it was “only one part of our social housing pipeline”. “Housing NZ are no longer...
Here are the presentations from Treasury and MSD. MSD 20170201 Purchasing Strategy Presentation – CHCH.pdf TSY Stock Tsfr 2 Feb 2017 TWCHPN.pdf CHA CEO, Scott Figenshow, says “We learned a lot about the crown retained investment and how it can work to...
Here is the report ‘Off the Track’ February 2017 What the report says on housing The report finds that housing has become harder to find and less affordable in Auckland, but the situation is more stable elsewhere. The report says...