Original Article HERE

Extreme disappointment is the response of property professionals to the Select Committee report on the Government’s proposed tenancy law reforms which was released this week.

Friday, July 10th 2020, 4:58AM 

by Miriam Bell

NZPIF president Andrew King

That’s because the Social Services and Community Select Committee has elected to progress the proposal to remove a landlord’s right to use “no cause” 90-day terminations to end a periodic tenancy agreement.

It has also given the green light to the proposal which requires that fixed-term tenancy agreements become periodic tenancy agreements upon expiry unless both parties agree otherwise.

These particular reforms have been fiercely opposed by property professionals across the board since the Government announced the reforms contained in its Residential Tenancies Amendment Bill.

Property professionals say the reforms skew the balance between investment property owners and...

Wow, it's a sea of green, again...

Original STUFF article here

OPINION: I’ve been an investor for more than 30 years now and house prices are something I’ve never been interested in, or paid much attention to.

I’ve never thought “should I buy now?” because I just read a headline to say that prices in my area are soaring.

So many people ask me: “What do you think the market is going to do?”

My answer for the last 30 years has been fairly consistent: I don’t know. I don’t care. Hopefully prices will drop. Why does it concern you? If you did know what was going to happen, what would you do and why?

The idea that you can predict what house prices will do at any point in the “cycle” is one of the myths that catches property investors out.

Here are a few others.

Myth Number One.

Generally, investors think that the big cities such as Auckland, Wellington, Hamilton and Christchurch will be better to invest in because they falsely believe that...

This looks like a step in the right direction! 

I hope many schools adopt it into their curriculum's and run with it.

It’ll be sanitized to the extreme but it’s a start at least and if the kids can leave school knowing ANYTHING about money, they’ll be a hell of a long way ahead of me!

New article by Graeme Fowler below team.

As always, well worth the read.

You’ll recognise many of the alignments in messages in this to what we constantly bombard you with, particularly ‘if it makes sense now, buy it now’, and his love and trust for the media and commentators.

Enjoy! 

The Absolute Absurdity of Paying any attention to House Prices or what’s in the news (June 2020).

Here are a few headlines from various news articles, most of them over the past year or two.

1. Rotorua house prices up more than 25%

2. Rotorua - House sellers cash in, making median $200k as capital gains reach record

3. Tight Hamilton housing market pushes property values up

4. Hamilton’s house prices keep rocketing up

5. Fierce competition for Hamilton homes means prices likely to rise

6. Asking prices for Waikato homes increases 74% in five years

7. Waikato’s median house price climbs $60,000 in a year

8. Tauranga out-ranks Auckland as NZ’s most...

Original article from Mortgage Supply Company HERE

Kelvin Davidson from Corelogic shares the good oil on what's happening right now in the New Zealand property market. Check it out! 

Check out the legendary David Windler giving a market update in this ever-changing finance environment! 

Here's all the good oil. 

When you are ready, here’s how we can help you succeed:

Join our Facebook page for free training, updates, and chat.

Join us at an upcoming course or workshop. Subscribe to stay in the loop or check out our homepage: Events on our Homepage.

Get in touch for a chat about how we can help you with our selections of programs and coaching options.

Check out the incredible value in the Assetlab Masterclass HERE

Original article HERE from our partners at Mortgage Supply Company

You may have noticed in the media a lot of noise lately around the LVR restrictions being removed completely by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand until 1st May 2021, due to the economic fallout from COVID-19. There's a good reason for the media buzz too - this change marks the end of nearly 7 years worth of LVR restrictions, and has the potential to make home-buyers lives a lot easier when it comes to taking out a bank home loan.

However, there's a lot more to the whole picture than a free-for-all of lending for the next 12 months. Just because banks can lend without restriction doesn't mean they will, and taking out a loan with a low deposit still goes hand-in-hand with a significant amount of risk if not properly planned.

We've put together this blog to hopefully clear up any frequently asks questions around the removal of LVR restrictions, and explain what it really means for Kiwi home...

Original article Here

In reaction to the speculation that the official cash rate and OCR may drop below zero in the months to come and the bid to win the business of Kiwi home buyers as the country recovers from COVID-19, we've seen the banks enter what looks like an interest rate war.

In fact, just last week ASB made the move to offer a record-breaking low two-year fixed rate of 2.69%, and Kiwi Bank responded to the forecast change by offering a one-year rate of 2.65%. These rates have literally never been seen before, even considering back in '08 after the GFC when interest rates plummeted by around 3% (from 8.6% to 5.9% fixed) the competitive and reactive environment we're witnessing now is utterly unprecedented.

So what's the reasoning behind the extremely low interest rates and New Zealand Bank wars? Well, ASB executive manager of retail banking, Craig Sims, stated;

"This has been a difficult time for a lot of our customers. While we have put in place a number of support...