Surprisingly, the hardest time to buy a property is when no one else is, yet when we look back on other quiet markets, it’s normally with regret we didn’t jump in at that time. We find comfort following the crowd, yet right now some of our most successful investor clients are active. When thinking a..

Four months ago, there were 180 homes for sale in Lower Hutt, now there are well over 600. So, is now the right time to buy or sell? There are articles about where the market might be going, we’ve seen various predictions all before. Let’s just say, none of us are so clever that we really know when ..

New laws that came into effect in 2021 have stirred the pot for New Zealand’s property and rental markets. New lending restrictions introduced to the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act (CCCFA), Loan to Value Ratios (LVR) rules, and the removal of interest deductibility on investment propertie..

Another month of records: national average asking price is now $900,671, with the lowest housing stock since records began 14 years ago.

When the lockdown began on the 18th of August, we were coming out of the usual low volume of listings that we experience every winter. Instead of going into our bu..

When we say no, we are saying yes to something else.

We are in a transitional market going from a community of single storey homes on enough land to kick a ball to rows and streets full of terraced homes on postage stamp size sections.