likely doubling in Auckland from about 100,000 to 200,000 this will increase the shipping containers close to a million with the land and couple of containers joined together.

ash4561 - 2021-07-18 11:54:00

ash4561 wrote:

likely doubling in Auckland from about 100,000 to 200,000 this will increase the shipping containers close to a million with the land and couple of containers joined together.

can you translate that into English please.

tweake - 2021-07-18 12:19:00

tweake wrote:

can you translate that into English please.

People are going to build more homes made from shipping containers? Apparently?

ryanm2 - 2021-07-18 13:07:00

tweake wrote:

can you translate that into English please.

Auckland council is increasing the development contribution cost. Likely to double it.

ash4561 - 2021-07-18 13:28:00

tweake wrote:

can you translate that into English please.

Costs of cheaper housing in Auckland will be close to a million dollars.

ash4561 - 2021-07-18 13:29:00

ash4561 wrote:

Auckland council is increasing the development contribution cost. Likely to double it.

and thats going to push house prices up even further.

one of the big problems is councils using housing as a means to fund infrastructure. the trouble is that cost simply gets past down the ladder and its first home buyers who ultimately pick up the tab.

tweake - 2021-07-18 14:31:00

Can’t we just go back to the 60s 70s and 80s when you didn’t need permits to do anything and you could bang up a fibrolite box with no insulation on poles and then later claim you had worked harder than everyone else?

lakeview3 - 2021-07-18 16:21:00

lakeview3 wrote:

Can’t we just go back to the 60s 70s and 80s when you didn’t need permits to do anything and you could bang up a fibrolite box with no insulation on poles and then later claim you had worked harder than everyone else?

and paid huge interest rates for years and years and years.

tweake - 2021-07-18 16:58:00

tweake wrote:

and paid huge interest rates for years and years and years.

anyone would think they are still paying if off on their $40,000 house!

lakeview3 - 2021-07-18 17:52:00

lakeview3 wrote:

Can’t we just go back to the 60s 70s and 80s when you didn’t need permits to do anything and you could bang up a fibrolite box with no insulation on poles and then later claim you had worked harder than everyone else?

Permits were actually required back then; maybe you are getting confused with building consents that were required from the 90's? Funny how many houses back then are now sought after, for 'having good bones', when many newer houses leak like a sieve and materials last nowhere near as long.

rhys12 - 2021-07-18 20:22:00

rhys12 wrote:

Permits were actually required back then; maybe you are getting confused with building consents that were required from the 90's? Funny how many houses back then are now sought after, for 'having good bones', when many newer houses leak like a sieve and materials last nowhere near as long.

houses from the 90s never had good bones. I would avoid one like the plague. If you want good bones, go for anything 1950s/1960s. Or post 2005.

The 1990s saw big changes in the construction of houses and not for the better. Buyer beware.

lakeview3 - 2021-07-18 20:28:00

It irritates me that they call these development taxes 'contributions' as if there was something voluntary about paying them.

masturbidder - 2021-07-18 20:29:00

masturbidder wrote:

It irritates me that they call these development taxes 'contributions' as if there was something voluntary about paying them.

I'll see your "development contributions" and raise you a "school donation".

sparkychap - 2021-07-19 08:01:00

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mulch_king - 2021-07-19 09:04:00

sparkychap wrote:

I'll see your "development contributions" and raise you a "school donation".

But school donations are gone, now paid by the government (with our money).
Taxcinda should pay development contributions too, and maybe give builders free lunches. Note for lunch providers; builders eat pies and chips.

masturbidder - 2021-07-19 21:47:00

masturbidder wrote:

It irritates me that they call these development taxes 'contributions' as if there was something voluntary about paying them.

And then rates go up another 9% because the infrastructure is a mess. Whatever happened to contribution tax and all the claimed depreciation of assets? Disappeared into higher council salaries?

pcle - 2021-07-20 12:45:00

masturbidder wrote:

But school donations are gone, now paid by the government (with our money).

Er no they aren't. At least they are tax deductible....

sparkychap - 2021-07-20 12:46:00