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"These numbers show very little if any alleviation in the shortage of listings is underway. In fact given that sales are rising the ratio of sales to listings continues to drift up. This sort of movement is correlated with prices also rising at an accelerating pace. Read or download the report here.
New Zealand has been named fifth in the annual report annual report that ranks countries according to their standards of health, education and income. The annual Human Development Index (HDI) , was released by the United Nations Development Programme yesterday.
"All of the main eight measures we use to gauge the current strength of the residential real estate market around New Zealand have strengthened over the past month indicating that slowly but surely on average things are shifting to a sellers market. More and more first home buyers are appearing, prices are perceived to be edging upward, and auction clearance rates are considered to be improving. However there has been a sizeable lift in potential vendors seeking appraisals of their properties, and in the opinion of agents the market balance is only marginally in favour of sellers. Regional variations remain strong." Read or download report here
Despite some of the negative influences currently in the market, Fonterra has reaffirmed its forecasted payout to dairy farmers for the 2012 season. The payout remains in the range of $7.15- $7.25 per kilograms of milk solids (kgms). Read or download the complete report.
The latest monthly survey of 25,000 Weekly Overview readers has revealed a rise in sentiment to a net 36% optimism about the economy in a year’s time compared with a net 22% optimism in early August. In real estate listings remain short but there is no flood of buyers, construction remains constrained with rising concern about impediments to rebuilding Christchurch, while exporters are expressing some but generally not a huge amount of concern about the NZ dollar.Read or download the complete report.
"Thankfully in New Zealand we have a number of key factors which will underpin our growth. They include the rebuilding of Christchurch, slow feed-through of higher farm incomes in farm spending, good manufacturing sector growth supported by a low exchange rate against Australia, and catch-up house building likely to kick-off soon in Auckland." Read or download here
"In residential real estate buyers remain cautious but listings are in short supply, in construction conditions are very mixed, exporters are showing concerns about the high exchange rate, but interest rates barely rated a mention." Read or download the file here.
Results of interest in the survey include a noticeable improvement in sentiment in the legal sector, widespread shortages of residential real estate listings, and more balanced feedback from the retailing sector than the outright pessimism which has dominated for a long time. Read or download the report here.
"The NZIER’s quarterly survey confirmed strength in business sentiment, investment and hiring plans already seen in other surveys..."Read or download the full report here.