​ Govt will not implement a Capital Gains Tax

Apr 17, 2019 | News

“The Tax Working Group gave the Government, and the country, an opportunity to look at the fairness of our tax system and debate options for change,” Jacinda Ardern said. “All parties in the Government entered into this debate with different perspectives and, after...

​Housing project changing lives in Porirua East

Apr 15, 2019 | News

“There’s been a lot of talk for a long time around retrofitting and warm homes, but we wanted to better direct our resources to improve the lives of families dealing with sickness in cold homes,” says Hutt Mana Charitable Trust Chair John Gwilliam. The Trust already...

Government told to walk the talk on green building standards

Apr 15, 2019 | News

Delegates and even fellow presenters at the Green property Summit in Auckland took the minister to task for the government not taking the lead by mandating high environmental standards for its own buildings – including schools, hospitals and social housing. “The...

​New approach for rent measurement a world first

Apr 15, 2019 | News

The consumers price index (CPI) for the June 2019 quarter (to be released on 16 July) will be the first in the world to use administrative rent data in this way to construct the CPI. The new method for measuring rent prices arose from a collaboration with Ministry of...