Early childhood education centres are a growth industry and a proven category for property investment. “It would be a struggle to think of an alternate sector providing the returns and associated low risks for investors,” says Linda Harley, business

Auckland’s North Shore has a reputation as a cruisy place, with its pōhutukawa beaches and sparkling seas. It’s been an area with big houses and bigger backyards, with elite seaside suburbs such as Takapuna housing some of the country’s rich and famo

Typical definitions of investment diversification focus on lowering risk by allocating money across a mix of asset classes, industries and geographies. The premise being that each would react differently to the same market events, thereby reducing yo

Matthew Horncastle from Williams Corporation gives his advice for buying off the plan. 1 Reputation. Make sure you are dealing with a reputable developer with a track record. Development is extremely difficult and you want your investment property to

Rental data is sourced from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment based on rental bonds lodged. This data is supplied to us grouped into geographic areas based on statistical area units used by Statistics NZ for the census and as a resu

Buy cheap, tidy up, add value. It’s a tried-and-true investment strategy, which for years has spelled success for New Zealand property investors. But with the perfect storm of vertiginous house price rises, changes to the Residential Tenancies Act (R

In 2019 I wrote an article for NZ Property Investor on this very topic. My focus then was on the rapid rise of build to rent in the UK and how, while it may not be a silver bullet for our housing crisis, it can still play a significant role in making

Investor Darryl Reid has no illusions about the five-bedroom 1950’s bungalow that he purchased for $509,000 in Rotorua last November. He calls it a “meth house”: “It tested negative, but it was as rough as one,” he shares. The Ōwhata house and sleepo

It’s been a full year since Covid-19 made its unwelcome appearance on our shores. The doom and gloom merchants who predicted the pandemic would see a plunge in property values have been proved wrong, as data around property continues to paint a pictu

NEXT MEETING: Wednesday April 28, 7pm at the Distinction Hotel, Riverside Drive, Whangarei. TOPIC: This month’s speaker is Scotney Williams LLB, Tenancy Practice Service Ltd. Scotney is one of the few people in the country with an in depth understan

It was a desire to find an income and financial freedom outside her nine to five accounting job that led Monica Chen to sign on for a privately-run property course. It was one of the earliest seminars encouraging and teaching the technical side of bu

1 DEVONPORT This historic seaside village features high quality housing and a real community feel. Devonport is popular with ferry commuters who work in downtown Auckland. With villa style homes, this area is in high demand. 2 MILFORD / TAKAPUNA Is

February 2021 This map represents change in the average rental price between the months of February 2020 and February 2021, based on figures from the Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment. Median house rents of the dominant dwelling type for