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Showing posts with label House prices. Show all posts
Showing posts with label House prices. Show all posts
Monday, August 10, 2026

Mike's Minute: Some political operators want to undermine your future

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Perhaps the Labour Party's small target election year strategy has started to unravel as one of their MPs, Helen White, told us all of h...
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Friday, February 20, 2026

Ryan Bridge: House prices no longer lead economic growth

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So the OCR decision was largely as expected yesterday, but what the Reserve Bank made very clear is where they think growth will come from. ...
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Saturday, February 7, 2026

David Farrar: A good time to be a first home buyer

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Radio NZ reports : 2026 is a “Goldilocks” year for first-home buyers, with lower interest rates, lots of houses to choose from and banks wil...
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Thursday, December 11, 2025

Bob Edlin: Luxon and the art of saying plenty without answering questions

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The PM had a simple question to answer: is the Government aiming for house prices to appreciate – or to decline? But to answer it at Questi...
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Monday, December 1, 2025

Dr Benno Blaschke: House prices are the new birth control

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The Economist, not known for hysteria, has quietly announced that advanced economies are halving their populations every generation. A demog...
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Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Does Chris Bishop have a point about house prices?

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I'll tell you what I found interesting over the last few days it's the enormous surprise at the start, and now the debate about Chri...
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Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Greg Ninness: QV says average housing values declined by just 0.3% last year....

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QV says average housing values declined by just 0.3% last year with prices remaining 'relatively static' Quotable Value (QV) says ho...
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Monday, July 22, 2024

Brian Easton: Flooding Housing Policy

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The Minister of Housing’s ambition is to reduce markedly the ratio of house prices to household incomes. If his strategy works it would tran...
Monday, May 13, 2024

Dr Don Brash: Perhaps house prices don't always go up

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There was a rather revealing headline in the Herald on Sunday today (12 May). It read “One in 8 Auckland homes on market were bought during ...
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Monday, August 7, 2023

Don Brash: Who's to blame for our still ridiculous house prices?

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Over the last year or so, house prices in most parts of New Zealand have come back a bit, probably as a result of the relatively rapid rise ...
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Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Don Brash: House prices are still outrageous - blame your local council and the Greens

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A few days ago, I spoke in the Public Forum part of a Western Bay of Plenty District Council meeting. For me, this was a first – I had never...
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Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Don Brash: House prices - Where to from here?

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Three months ago, financial media company Bloomberg looked at housing markets in 30 countries and concluded that the New Zealand housing mar...
Thursday, June 30, 2022

Don Brash: The serious challenges facing local government

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An address to the Omokoroa Residents & Ratepayers Association AGM 29 June 2022 Ladies and gentlemen, There are a great many serious chal...
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Thursday, June 2, 2022

Don Brash: House prices falling at last?

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In recent weeks, more and more commentators are suggesting that house prices in New Zealand have started to fall, and are expected to fall f...
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