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 risk and reward of investing • New Zealand Property Investor‘s new owners have followed our readers’ lead and invested in something we love.

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What's happening in the market

Spotlight on OCR • The Reserve Bank's February OCR announcement will be important for the fortunes of the property market over the coming year, as Kris Pedersen explains.

More for everybody in 2025 • Both first-home buyers and investors will benefit from lower interest rates in 2025, writes Kelvin Davidson from CoreLogic.

Why buyers like bikes • Study shows cycleways are better for house prices, writes Sally Lindsay.

Similar price growth • The gap between house and apartment price growth isn't as dramatic as people think, writes Sally Lindsay.

Don't bet on house prices rising faster than incomes • Don Brash says there are grounds for believing that house prices may have finally levelled, writes Sally Lindsay.

Clarification around granny flat rules • Interested in building a granny flat on your property? Here's what you need to know.

Boarding house operators tidy up • Boarding houses get little attention, but that is changing after a disastrous fire in Wellington last year killed five people.

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Is the balcony legal? • Q I'm a self-managing landlord, and my tenants have raised concerns about the height of the second-storey balcony railings, which are 800mm high. The current Building Code requires 1000mm, but the house was built in the 1990s. I'm not sure if it complies with the regulations at the time of construction. How should I handle this to ensure the property is safe and meets legal requirements?

Renting and family trusts

How much will my equity get me?

The matter of tax deductions

Cautious optimism • Matt Ball from New Zealand Property Investors Federation outlines what is in store for the year ahead from a political perspective.

HOME TRUTHS • Shadi Salehpour understands the power of owning property and how looking after tenants also creates great results for landlords, writes Joanna Mathers.

MONEY DOWN THE DRAIN? • Developers are losing thousands due to water constraints and confusing legacy rules, as Joanna Mathers discovers.

A SLOW ROAD TO A BETTER MARKET • This year's housing market is going to be impacted by interest rate falls and job losses, Sally Lindsay writes.

BEACH CITY'S MARKET PLATEAUS • Nestled on the sun-soaked shores of the Bay of Plenty, Tauranga's housing market reflects the fortunes of the rest of the country, writes Sally Lindsay.

BEST OF THE BEST • Some of the most popular stories from Caleb and Alice Pearson, of Pearson + Projects, last year.

The state of home improvement • Rachel Radford from Builderscrack looks at how home improvements have been progressing since the post-Covid boom.

Connecting regulation to real-life development • Leonie Freeman, chief executive, Property Council New Zealand, provides insights into the complicated business of development.

Picking a winner • Nick Gentle from iFind Property shares his pick of places to look out for when considering investment property in 2025.

Four properties in five months • Andrew Nicol discusses how a young investor built a portfolio at lightning speed in a tough market.

To gift or not to gift? • Do you offer gifts to your tenants? Or is good property management a gift in itself?...