Article tagged with 'housing market'
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More buyers with low deposits getting into housing market
12 Sep 2025 - Westpac says there are signs that more marginal borrowers are being drawn into buying homes.
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Slumping house prices good news for first home buyers
09 Sep 2025 - Housing affordability is improving as house prices continue falling. QV’s House Price Index dropped 0.8% in the three months to the end of August and house prices are now 13.4% lower than the peak market value in January 2022.
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Year of the refix
22 Aug 2025 - Average house prices around New Zealand have fallen for five months in a row now despite mortgage interest rates falling over 2% from this time a year ago.
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Data aligns for OCR cut and inflation easing
12 Aug 2025 - Kiwibank says the stars, or data, have aligned for an OCR cut next week to 3% and an eventual move to 2.5%.
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Remodelling housing in the country’s biggest city
31 Jul 2025 - Auckland’s new $5.5 billion train link to be opened next year will reshape the inner city and surrounding suburbs’ housing over the next decade.
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Mired housing market going nowhere fast
25 Jul 2025 - A housing market deep in the doldrums is likely to stay stalled for some time yet, ANZ says.
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Green light burning brightly for August interest rate cut
22 Jul 2025 - Another cut to the OCR next month is now as close to a done deal as can be the case, the BNZ says.
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Townhouse values hit and miss as buyers prefer stand-alone houses
13 Jun 2025 - Easing mortgage rates mean more affordable stand-alone houses are appealing to home buyers again.
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Little effect on housing market
29 May 2025 - Nothing really changes for the housing market after yesterday’s drop in the OCR to 3.25%.
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House prices, rent rises to be restrained in the short term: RBNZ
07 May 2025 - House prices and rent increases are likely to be restrained in the near term because of the softness of the housing market, the Reserve Bank says in its latest financial stability report.