🕑| 1-minute read If the Government is serious about reducing poverty and actually fixing the housing crisis, it needs to implement a major change to the entire tax system and not just tinker …
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🕑| 1-minute read Many economists say that the NZ property market is going to flat for the next 2 – 4 years. What will cause future price growth? Population growth set against insufficient …
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🕑| 2-minute read ANZ research team forecasts OCR will drop by nearly 40% (from 1.75 to 1.00). I tend to agree because the Reserve Bank of New Zealand has signalled that the next move in the …
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🕑| 1-minute read The Reserve Bank has indicated it expects to keep the OCR on hold until mid-2021, given the balance of risks it sees around the growth outlook. …
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🕑| 2-minute read In the last newsletter, I mentioned the updated method of counting migration by Stats NZ. The net number (inbound migration less outflows) went down by roughly 30% to 43,400. …
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🕑| 2-minute read New dwelling consents are now at the highest level since 1975, but economists say that it’s likely they have reached their peak. A total of 33,576 new dwellings were consented …
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