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Where Does Housing Fit Into Budget 2021?
Thursday, 27 May 2021, 3:51 pm | Property and Build
Finance Minister Grant Robertson announced his fourth budget, which will invest $3.8b in a Housing Acceleration Fund, insulate 47,700 homes and put $380m towards raising Māori homeownership, which currently sits at just 30%. $131.8m will also ... More >>
House Sales Starting To Decline
Friday, 21 May 2021, 3:51 pm | Property and Build
The number of residential properties sold in April across New Zealand was the highest number of properties sold in an April month for 5 years with 7,218 properties sold, according to the latest data from the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ). ... More >>
What Is Pushing Up House Construction Costs?
Friday, 21 May 2021, 3:45 pm | Property and Build
The March quarterly growth is the highest rate of construction cost inflation since Q1 2019, and far above the 0.6% and 0.4% increases throughout Q3 and Q4 2020 respectively, according to CoreLogic’s Cordell Housing Index Price. The Arcadis 2021 International ... More >>
Why Accessible Design Will Create Long-term Value
Thursday, 13 May 2021, 3:57 pm | Property and Build
On 30 April, Australia’s building ministers agreed to include minimum accessibility standards in the 2022 National Construction Code. This decision reflects how housing needs to be more flexible to meet the changing needs of an aging population during ... More >>
Property Market Shows Signs Of Slowing
Thursday, 13 May 2021, 3:51 pm | Property and Build
Nationwide values increased by a further 3.1% over April according to the latest CoreLogic House Price Index (HPI). While this brings the annual growth rate to 18.4% up from 16.2% last month, the annual measure is impacted by base affects. A year ... More >>
New Urban Growth Strategies Gaining Traction
Thursday, 6 May 2021, 3:56 pm | Property and Build
The key objectives of the NPS-UD are to increase the development capacity for houses and business, address housing affordability and ensure New Zealand communities are “well-functioning urban environments that enable all people and communities to ... More >>
Property Market Game Has Changed
Thursday, 6 May 2021, 3:52 pm | Property and Build
The CoreLogic Property Market & Economic Report for Q1 2021 reinforced the heated market conditions which led to the Government’s recent housing policy announcement. Through the first quarter of 2021 sales activity remained high despite record-low ... More >>
Planning Pays Off With Construction Software
Thursday, 29 April 2021, 4:00 pm | Property and Build
Contractors often have their own way of doing things and have gotten comfortable with the solutions they have, but whatever the size of the business, it is likely that improvements can be made, says Bluebeam Australia. The construction industry More >>
The Best Performing Region For Residential Investors
Thursday, 29 April 2021, 3:52 pm | Property and Build
Capital gains in the Manawatu/Wanganui region increased 25.3% for the three months ending December 2020 when compared to the same time last year with median prices going from $400,000 to $501,000. Additionally, yields in the Manawatu/Wanganui region ... More >>
3D Laser Technology A Gamechanger For Surveying
Friday, 16 April 2021, 3:59 pm | Property and Build
The old-school way of capturing location data within a building relies on legacy tools like distance meters and notepads, a slow process and ripe for human error. Things move as the building goes up. Concrete grows and shrinks. Structures settle. ... More >>
Housing Policy Changes – What Are The Facts?
Thursday, 15 April 2021, 4:46 pm | Property and Build
It has been two weeks since the Government’s announcement to extend the Brightline Test and to taper/remove mortgage interest deductibility for investors. Amidst all of the expert commentary, news headlines, and social media debate, here is our evidence-based ... More >>
A Year After Lockdown – How Have Our Cities Fared?
Thursday, 8 April 2021, 4:16 pm | Property and Build
Colliers research found both Auckland and Wellington have experienced increased rates of vacancy in the commercial sector, but is this the new normal or is change on the horizon? Wellington Retail Overall vacancy over the second half of 2020 continued ... More >>
Examining The Housing Market Ahead Of Big Changes
Thursday, 8 April 2021, 4:12 pm | Property and Build
Last week’s housing announcement has drawn attention all over the country, and with CoreLogic data showing the highest rate of value growth in 15 years, it would appear this heightened attention is justified – CoreLogic Head of New Zealand Research ... More >>
Commercial Property After A Year Of COVID
Thursday, 1 April 2021, 5:09 pm | Property and Build
2020 saw increased vacancy rates in the office, industrial and retail markets with mixed yields in each sector, but Colliers research says it is not all about COVID. While the adverse economic impact of COVID-19 was a rightfully expected influence, ... More >>
Top Five Shifts Affecting Construction
Thursday, 1 April 2021, 4:58 pm | Property and Build
Construction has long been plagued by a lack of collaboration and communication right along the supply chain, according to construction payment application firm Payapps. Over time, this leads to job fragmentation, inefficient contract approaches ... More >>
Solid Start To New Urbanism
Thursday, 25 March 2021, 5:07 pm | Property and Build
Despite four lockdowns in Auckland within the past 12 months, residential developers are seeing unprecedented sales, with well-designed and well-situated townhouses proving extremely popular in Auckland. Developers are discovering that councils are a lot ... More >>
Christchurch Earthquake: Five Lessons In Construction After A Decade Of Analysis
Thursday, 25 March 2021, 5:00 pm | Property and Build
Over the last 10 years since the most destructive of Canterbury’s earthquakes, former Senior Structural Engineer with HERA (Heavy Engineering Research Association) Charles Clifton has analysed why certain structures (such as the CTV building) failed ... More >>
External Cladding Banned In Victoria
Thursday, 4 February 2021, 8:58 am | Property and Build
In a move to reduce the risk of fire, the Victorian Government in Australia has banned the use of certain external wall cladding products – should New Zealand follow suit? The Victorian government has revealed a new amendment to the state’s ... More >>
Are Property Investors Out Of Control?
Thursday, 4 February 2021, 8:45 am | Property and Build
Investors’ market share has soared to 27%, CoreLogic research reveals, prompting speculation that further intervention by government and regulators might be needed to rebalance buyer activity CoreLogic NZ’s latest Property Market & Economic ... More >>
Top Performing Suburbs Of 2020
Friday, 15 January 2021, 5:45 pm | Property and Build
CoreLogic’s Best of the Best Report shows 2020 in review and reveals what 2021 might herald for the property market. New Zealand is in the middle of an unexpected, unpredicted property boom – so who received the biggest Christmas present in the ... More >>
