Increased number of building consents in Auckland

Increased number of building consents in Auckland

Aug 3, 2015 | Reports & Articles

Residential building in Auckland is at its strongest in a decade with 8300 consents for the latest year – an increase of 21 per cent on the previous year. “This is the fourth consecutive year of over 20 per cent growth and is the strongest sustained increase in...

Patrick Gower interviews Nick Smith

Jul 18, 2015 | News

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.
Roy Morgan Research poll

Roy Morgan Research poll

Jul 17, 2015 | Research

The poll conducted on 17 July shows National down 6.5% in the opinion polls and Labour up 6%. According to the poll: “A slowing New Zealand economy (New Zealand’s GDP growth slowed to 0.2% in the March Quarter 2015 – the slowest New Zealand growth in two years) is...

Increase in number of people renting

Jul 16, 2015 | News

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.