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"...While property prices are likely to pick up in future, a rental investment should stack up as just that - an investment. Properties are available at 8 per cent or 9 per cent gross return. Look for those - then any capital gains are just the icing on the cake."...Read the full article here
With low mortgage rates and rising rental returns, New Zealanders have returned to property as their favoured investment....Anecdotally Auckland and Christchurch appeared to be the most popular areas with property investors, as well as pockets of Dunedin. Read the full article here
"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.
"The real estate market in February has built on the strong results in December and January with a 37% lift in sales across the country compared to February last year and the highest number of transactions in a February month since 2008," said REINZ chief executive Helen O'Sullivan."
"...although all three measures we follow in the REINZ housing statistics report eased in January – prices, sales, and days to sell versus average – the underlying trends are for improvements in all three. The rising real estate market will eventually lead to rising consents and dwelling construction with assistance from recent cuts in bank fixed housing mortgage rates." Read or download the full report here
Is this a strong signal to potential investors that now might be a good time to invest? However, as always, there will be certain areas and properties that are better than others. As such, it is important to “do your homework” and research the options. Read the article here
The housing market is in the early stages of an upward leg as growing numbers of first home buyers enter the market while increasing numbers of investors appear to be leaving it, according to the latest monthly BNZ-REINZ Residential Market Survey. ...rental stock is likely to tighten up even further. Full article here
DNZ Property Fund chairman Tim Storey believes that despite worldwide market turmoil, the property market in this country remains around the bottom of its cycle and opportunities are available for the fund. Read the full article here
"The prolonged sluggishness of new property listings, which has been evident for nearly 2 years, has at last seen a tip in the balance of the property market from favouring buyers to favouring sellers. At least that is now being seen in two of the major markets around the country – Auckland and Queenstown lakes," realestate.co.nz chief executive Alistair Helm said. Read here