Start payday filing now

Feb 4, 2019 | News

Over the last few months, we’ve shared lots of information to help employers around New Zealand get ready for payday filing. All employers need to be payday filing from 1 April 2019, but if you think you’re ready to start payday filing now, February is a great time to...

REINZ calls for a new KiwiBuild target to be announced

Feb 4, 2019 | News

REINZ would like to see a target put in place ahead of the next election in order to measure how the KiwiBuild programme is progressing. Bindi Norwell, Chief Executive at REINZ says: “With a significant housing shortfall in New Zealand, the KiwiBuild programme is an...

Landlords adding insulation ahead of July deadline

Feb 4, 2019 | News

Government-funded insulation grants for landlords ended last June. In November the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment estimated that, as of February last year, there could be almost 173,000 private rental properties still needing upgrading. Smart Energy...

NBR Opinion: The will and the way to solve housing affordability

Jan 31, 2019 | News

Paul Majurey, of Marutūāhu descent, chairs the Waimahia and Puhinui Park community housing developments. This was brought together by the Tāmaki Collective of iwi, NZ Housing Foundation, CORT Community Housing and Te Tumu Kainga (the Māori Trustee). Importantly, the...

​Crown-Iwi partnership – 300 new homes on table for Miramar

Jan 31, 2019 | News

Bird’s eye view of the area in red Taranaki Whānui Limited (the wholly owned commercial arm of Port Nicholson Block Settlement Trust) and the Government’s Land for Housing Programme (HUD) have entered into an MoU to collaborate and work together on the future of...

Not-for-profits put people’s needs first

Jan 31, 2019 | News

APNZL supports the view that government investment in public housing is best achieved through not-for-profit organisations putting people’s needs first. “The Government’s decision to allow private developers access to Community Housing supports is a misguided...

NZQA must urgently bolster vocational training

Jan 30, 2019 | News

This is the opinion of Warwick Quinn, chief executive of New Zealand’s largest construction trade training organisation, BCITO. Quinn says the current review of the New Zealand Qualifications Framework – NZQF – needs to urgently address the issue of...