Article tagged with 'NZPIF'
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A better investment market
14 Mar 2024 - “Reinstatement of interest deductibility starting from the new tax year on 1 April brings property investors back in line with every other business in the country, where interest costs are a legitimate deductible expense," Tim Horsbrugh, New Zealand Property Investors Federation (NZPIF) executive committee member says.
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A step too far
07 Aug 2023 - The Green Party’s proposed warrant of fitness for rental properties is likely to hit renters with an unnecessary cost of about $90,000,000 a year, the New Zealand Property Investors Federation (NZPIF) says.
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Property King rides off into the sunset as new laws emerge
22 Nov 2022 - While the Government has just introduced sweeping changes to regulate landlords and meth contaminated houses, former New Zealand Property Investors president Andrew King says in his final letter to members he is disappointed that he wasn’t able to prevent so many poorly researched and designed law changes becoming law.
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Concerns about new tax ‘dismissed out of hand’
14 May 2021 - The Property Investors Federation’s pleas for the Government to stop plans removing investors’ ability to claim mortgage interest payments as a tax deduction or modify how the policy is introduced have fallen on deaf ears.
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Landlord polls: Rents will lift, sales will be low
09 Apr 2021 - Three recent landlord polls show the majority are going to lift rents in response to the Government’s decision to scrap mortgage interest deductibility against income.
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Policy ‘not rooted in reality’
23 Mar 2021 - NZPIF president Andrew King says he is astounded the Government has not done any work on the fiscal reality of its policy scrapping tax deductibility on landlord mortgages.
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Education for landlords by landlords
23 Oct 2020 - Self-managing landlords are signing up in droves for the NZ Property Investors Federation’s new education programme which aims to help landlords run their properties like professionals.
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Healthy Homes standards: to back or to scrap?
28 Sep 2020 - Landlords are divided over Barfoot & Thompson’s recent call to the National Party to hold fire on their plans to overturn the Healthy Homes standards if elected.
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Call for rent caps after freeze ends
21 Sep 2020 - Rents are set to go up for many as the Covid-19 prompted freeze on rent increases comes to an end later this week, but tenant advocates are now calling for rents to be capped.
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COMMENT: Furore over Healthy Homes story misleading
08 Sep 2020 - Never let the truth get in the way of a good story. It’s a tried and tested adage – and it’s one the NZ Property Investors Federation president felt the brunt of yesterday, muses NZ Property Investor editor Miriam Bell.