Article tagged with 'Kelvin Davidson'
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Market share high for first home buyers
25 Aug 2025 - First home buyers’ share of the housing market is hovering at its highest in 20 years – making them the dominant buying force all year.
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Never a better time in four years for first home buyers
25 Jun 2025 - Falling interest rates and house prices leading to better mortgage affordability is drawing first home buyers into the market in increasing numbers.
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Nearly $950 million was lent to home buyers with less than a 20% deposit in March.
26 May 2025 - It was significantly up on the $584 million lent to low deposit borrowers in March last year and $510 lent by banks in March 2023.
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Sales dive to new depths – lending at low DTIs
21 Feb 2024 - House sales have plunged to their second lowest level in about 40 years, only 2% up on January’s sales last year, which were the lowest since 1983.
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Property sales finally stop falling
23 Jun 2023 - The number of property sales last month was 7.5% higher than a year earlier – the first annual increase since May 2021, CoreLogic’s latest Chart Pack shows.
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Making money the easy way
25 May 2021 - Houses sold in the first quarter of this year made their owners a median gain of $315,000 up from $291,000 in the last three months of 2020.
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Sales to drop keeping values rising
30 Apr 2021 - Despite record-low listings, property values and sales rose rapidly through the first quarter of this year, a new CoreLogic report shows.
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Mortgaged investors still buying, but the game has changed
14 Apr 2021 - March has continued a record peak for investors buying residential property.
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COMMENT: Dunedin’s slowdown might last
22 Oct 2020 - Dunedin’s loss of value growth momentum in recent months could be a longer lasting trend, writes CoreLogic senior property economist Kelvin Davidson.
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Are returning Kiwis really a market driver?
06 Oct 2020 - Returning New Zealanders have been touted as a major driver of housing demand going forward, but some think the flood has ended – and that will impact on the market.