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03-Sep-2021

Stefan Nikolic: Why Auckland investors should not write off short-term rentals just yet (despite the lockdown)

It comes as no surprise that the short-term rental market is heavily affected during lockdowns, and some investors will be put off by the idea of staying in the market, but that doesn’t mean you should give up on the idea altogether. In fact, lockdowns present a massive opportunity for those investors that are looking to adopt a counter-cyclical investment strategy and take a more long-term a...

Landlording

30-Aug-2021

Moving between different Alert Levels

In anticipation of the rest of the country moving to Alert Level 3 this Wednesday while Auckland and Northland remain under Alert Level 4, we've produced this easy referencing guide to help tenants and landlords work out the rules of moving across regions that are at different Alert Levels: To region at Alert Level 1 To region at Ale...

Guest blog

20-Aug-2021

Ryan Smuts: Bank funding for new-builds

In many cases, bank lending has changed considerably when it comes to new-builds, and most of these changes have happened only within the last few months. An original advantage of funding new-builds with banks was that they are exempt from LVR rules, so banks could lend what they wanted on them. In most cases, banks would lend up to 80% for investment new-builds properties. This mea...

Investment tip

19-Aug-2021

Kelvin Davidson: Time to focus on income

There’s no doubt that the economics of property investment in NZ have changed dramatically in a short space of time since the market unexpectedly surged in the wake of COVID originally hitting our shores. True, mortgage rates fell sharply, and that triggered a wave of renewed property demand – alongside the temporary removal of the loan to value ratio speed limits and a continued la...

Landlording

19-Aug-2021

Landlord FAQs for Level 4

Level 4 has caught many of us by surprise. Here are answers to some common day-to-day questions arising out of the latest snap lockdown. Note that these answers are current as of the 19th of August 2021. Should the lockdown be extended and emergency tenancy laws come into effect, our answers to some of these questions may change. Q. My tenant has asked for a rent reduction for the ...

Must know

30-Jul-2021

Ryan Smuts: Interest rates are on the up

Interest rates are starting to track up leading to significant cost implications for property investors. Some specific issues to be mindful of: 1. Why are interest rates going up? Interest rate markets are already pricing in a 90% chance of a rise to the OCR in August! The recent RBNZ comments around the Large Scale Asset Purchase (effectively money printing) are also infl...

Editor's Choice

20-Jul-2021

Kelvin Davidson: Inflation and interest rates take centre stage

What a change a few weeks can make. It was only a short time ago that some commentators were predicting that the official cash rate (OCR) wouldn’t start to rise until 2023 or even 2024, and the ‘consensus’ was for a rise in the second half of 2022. But that has all changed very rapidly, and now an OCR increase looks relatively likely for August 18th – i.e. only a few weeks from now....

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22-Jun-2021

Kelvin Davidson: There’s never a dull moment in the property market

Over the past month the property market has remained at the forefront of news headlines, so here’s an important reminder of recent key points: Property values are still rising rapidly – in May they were more than 20% higher than a year ago (on the CoreLogic House Price Index) However, there are hints that sales volumes are starting to cool, due to previous measures s...

Editor's Choice

15-Jun-2021

Stefan Nikolic: The Auckland short term rental market - Post-COVID recovery so far

As you can imagine, the short term rental market was hit hard by COVID last year when the first lockdown was announced. Zodiak was no exception . Losing half of our clients in a single month was not a pretty sight, and the short-term rental industry was in free-fall for the next few months. Luckily though, we survived! Now the Airbnb market is improving month on month, and this looks t...

Editor's Choice

21-May-2021

Kelvin Davidson: The property investment rule changes have probably finished for now

Clearly, the late-March policy changes made by the Government have altered the economics of using a mortgage to buy further investment properties, coming on top of the higher deposit requirements that have already been in play for a few months now. Then in early May, the Reserve Bank (RBNZ) released the latest Financial Stability Report (FSR), which contained even more discussion ar...

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Stefan Nikolic: Why Auckland investors should not write off short-term rentals just yet (despite the lockdown)

Moving between different Alert Levels

Ryan Smuts: Bank funding for new-builds

Kelvin Davidson: Time to focus on income

Landlord FAQs for Level 4

Ryan Smuts: Interest rates are on the up

Kelvin Davidson: Inflation and interest rates take centre stage

Kelvin Davidson: There’s never a dull moment in the property market

Stefan Nikolic: The Auckland short term rental market - Post-COVID recovery so far

Kelvin Davidson: The property investment rule changes have probably finished for now

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