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Survey shows that Rental Properties are well insulated

Monday, 10 September 2012, 3:46 pm | NZ Property Investors Federation

10 September 2012 Survey shows that Rental Properties are well insulated In response to claims that only 5% of rental properties in New Zealand are insulated, the NZ Property Investors’ Federation has undertaken a survey of their members to more ... More >>

Rental Property WOF not needed

Thursday, 6 September 2012, 1:02 pm | NZ Property Investors Federation

The NZ Property Investors’ Federation is a strong supporter of insulating rental properties, but is against suggestions to introduce a Warrant of Fitness for rental property. More >>

Are NZ Property Prices Really Too High?

Tuesday, 28 August 2012, 12:40 pm | NZ Property Investors Federation

Media Statement for immediate release 28 August 2012 Are NZ Property Prices Really Too High? More >>

Ring Fencing Losses….. It’s Coming!

Monday, 2 July 2012, 11:26 am | NZ Property Investors Federation

The Minister of Revenue has recently released a statement concerning tax changes for holiday home owners. Costs in future will need to be apportioned based on the number of days rented relative to the total number of days used but the ministerial ... More >>

Property Investors welcome housing productivity report

Wednesday, 11 April 2012, 1:44 pm | NZ Property Investors Federation

Although initially dubious about the need for another report into Housing Affordability, the NZ Property Investors’ Federation (NZPIF) is pleased to have many of its assessments backed up by the Productivity Commission. More >>

Property group wary of new Super Ministry

Friday, 16 March 2012, 1:18 pm | NZ Property Investors Federation

The NZ Property Investors’ Federation was surprised to hear that the Department of Building and Housing is to be merged into the new Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. More >>

House prices not main cause of poor productivity

Friday, 1 April 2011, 1:53 pm | NZ Property Investors Federation

The Government's newly formed Productivity Commission's key area of research will be Auckland's house prices. More >>

Fewer properties for tenants through property tax changes

Friday, 1 April 2011, 1:51 pm | NZ Property Investors Federation

Changes to rental property taxation come into affect today. Rental property owners will no longer be able to claim depreciation on their buildings and Loss Attributing Qualifying companies no longer exist. More >>

No evidence of 150% rental price increases in Christchurch

Friday, 11 March 2011, 12:32 pm | NZ Property Investors Federation

Calls for rental controls due to 150% increases in Christchurch rental prices have been dismissed by the New Zealand Property Investors Federation. More >>

Landlord of the year 2010

Friday, 22 October 2010, 9:50 am | NZ Property Investors Federation

Nancy Caiger of the Waikato Property Investors Association was named Landlord of the Year, at the Gala Dinner of the NZ Property Investors Conference in Marlborough on Saturday. More >>

Landlords welcome new tenancy laws

Thursday, 22 July 2010, 9:20 am | NZ Property Investors Federation

The New Zealand Property Investors’ Federation congratulates the Hon Phil Heatley for successful concluding the Residential Tenancies Amendment Bill, which was finally passed into law today. More >>

Government listens to the facts

Friday, 21 May 2010, 10:41 am | NZ Property Investors Federation

The NZ Property Investors’ Federation is not entirely happy with all aspects of the 2010 Budget, however they are pleased that Government have seen through many of the false claims made against rental property and resisted calls for large and ... More >>

Morgan cannot avoid the facts

Tuesday, 27 April 2010, 10:01 am | NZ Property Investors Federation

Obviously being up-front and pragmatic is an admirable trait within the Morgan household. Gareth Morgan is quite right to acknowledge that rental property is being discriminated against by the Tax Working Group and his son, Trade-Me founder Sam Morgan, is extremely ... More >>

Government misled over property taxes

Wednesday, 24 March 2010, 1:42 pm | NZ Property Investors Federation

A growing amount of evidence is emerging that the Government has been misled by the Tax Working Group (TWG) over the merits of increasing the taxation for rental property. More >>

Misleading talk around property, bad tax decisions

Wednesday, 20 January 2010, 11:35 am | NZ Property Investors Federation

The Property Investors’ Federation is concerned about the high level of misinformation around taxation of rental property. • Rental property does not have a tax advantage over other investments or businesses. • Rental property usually contributes to ... More >>

Stop the misleading talk around property

Thursday, 17 September 2009, 1:43 pm | NZ Property Investors Federation

The New Zealand Property Investors’ Federation is concerned about the high level of misinformation around taxation of property and the introduction of a capital gains tax (cgt). The following is a reply to much of the misinformation and outlines why ... More >>

Stop tenants being ripped off

Sunday, 23 August 2009, 12:38 pm | NZ Property Investors Federation

The New Zealand Property Investors’ Federation was distressed to hear that tenants’ were losing money when applying for rental property. More >>

Building new homes may not be the answer

Wednesday, 5 November 2008, 11:31 am | NZ Property Investors Federation

Major Campbell Roberts of the Salvation Army has said that his organization had identified a shortage of 2,500 homes in Auckland. However the number of available rental properties in Auckland has increased by 1,600 since May this year to nearly five and a half ... More >>

Landlords serious about customer service

Friday, 15 August 2008, 3:48 pm | NZ Property Investors Federation

“ Customer service is an extremely important issue for landlords. Part of the long term strategy of the NZ Property Investors’ Federation is to provide the inspiration to achieve high standards of service as well as to have a way of publicly acknowledging ... More >>

Will new bill correct anti-landlord bias?

Friday, 30 May 2008, 1:48 pm | NZ Property Investors Federation

“Landlords seek tenancy legislation which is balanced and commonsense law”, said Martin Evans, President of the NZ Property Investors’ Federation, today. “Currently the RTA is skewed and has an anti-landlord bias so we welcome the long awaited Bill.” More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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