NZ Property Investor

The New Zealand Property investor magazine provides readers with information you can use to successfully invest in residential property. You can learn from the experts, read the stories of your fellow investors and keep up to date with the latest house prices and rental statistics.

THE COMMERCIAL ROUTE • A comparison between residential and commercial investment is interesting and worth exploring this year.

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EYES ON INTEREST RATES • While the government’s housing tax policy changes are a positive, interest rates will play a big role in where the market goes.

RTA CHANGES WELCOMED • Revamp will restore balance and mitigate risks for investors and tenants, says an NZPIF executive member.

BOND REFUND REJECTED • Tribunal rules would-be tenant’s arrangement was outside RTA and boarding framework.

PETS: THE NEW FRONTIER FOR LANDLORDS • A major change to the Residential Tenancies Act is coming and it’s all to do with pets, writes Sally Lindsay.

PIPELINE ADVICE FLOWS FREELY • Restrictions, insurance and even royalties should be checked out before buying a property with a pipeline running through it.

LISTINGS REACH NINE-YEAR HIGH • Nationwide inventory levels have risen 13.5 per cent from 29,284 to 33,245 properties year-on-year – the highest level since 2015, reports Sally Lindsay.

WHAT'S DRIVING HOUSE PRICES?

INFLATION A STUBBORN COMPANION • Domestic inflation has come in at 5.8 per cent, well above the number RBNZ predicted, writes Kris Pedersen.

A DECADE OF DOING IT RIGHT • Revisiting successful investors is always interesting, and Kathryn Seque-Roche is no exception, writes Joanna Mathers.

INVESTMENT THAT MAKES SENSE • We’ve noticed a trend over the past few years …. more property investors are choosing to build new homes rather than purchasing existing housing stock.

WHEN GST STANDS FOR 'GETTING SERIOUSLY TRICKY' • The new rules are unnecessarily complicated and hardly in the spirit of reducing compliance costs, writes Matthew Gilligan, so take advice.

RESIDENTIAL VS COMMERCIAL • Investing in residential and commercial real estate has long been a popular avenue for wealth creation, but there are big differences, as Sally Lindsay discovers.

PROS/CONS • Timaru-based XL Structural, which specialises in designing and building, has laid out the pros and cons of investing in commercial property, saying any potential investor needs a clear understanding of their individual financial goals.

COMMERCIAL BUILDING VALUATIONS

HEALTHY HOMES STANDARDS: HEATING • A three-part series, which starts in this issue, provides a guide to heating, ventilation, and moisture ingress/drainage in rental properties.

STEP CAREFULLY INTO THE BATHROOM • Renovating a bathroom is not a straightforward project … it requires careful planning and management. Caleb and Alice Pearson, of Pearson + Projects, offer some useful tips.

BEWARE THE WINTER OF DISCONTENT • There are affordable ways to keep your tenants happy over the colder months, maintain a property’s value, and minimise future repair costs, writes Rachel Radford, of Builderscrack.

DEVELOPMENT NEEDS HOMEWORK TOO • Property development is regulated by district plans set out by councils, and it pays to know the rules early, writes Anthony Corin.

WATCH THIS SPACE • It’s going to take time for traditional property investors to come back to the market. They are gun shy and wary, writes Mark Withers, but time will tell.

WHEN THE INSPECTOR CALLS • Building inspectors attract the most claims and are pursued regardless of whether they have done anything wrong, writes Richard Hargreaves.

STEPPING FROM BUSINESS TO PROPERTY • Kathy Faulkner meets a couple who went from a sore knee...