Housing In NZ
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| 151 | Wonder which will go first? Percent change in real housing prices, 2000-2019 New Zealand: 177% mkr_ahearn - 2021-04-07 07:58:00 |
| 152 | mkr_ahearn wrote:
And how will NZ fare when 2020 figures are in, we'll be at the top. aklreels - 2021-04-07 08:20:00 |
| 153 | Leaders of NZ in recent memory aklreels - 2021-04-07 08:20:00 |
| 154 | Plans for more than 200 new homes for a West Auckland suburb have been met with concerns about traffic, a loss of green space and the impact on local schools. In the decision to accept the application being sped up, the ministry said the development would provide employment opportunities for about 609 full time construction jobs – and there was the possibility of ongoing permanent jobs. It also said it would increase housing supply and the application being fast tracked would allow construction to start sooner than if consents were sought through standard Resource Management Act processes. Do we need more housing, yes. A community ought to be able to grow, even when many like it as it is. aklreels - 2021-04-07 08:49:00 |
| 155 | aklreels wrote:
Well Adern says it's bold action so it must be true eh. Pity she hasn't done anything to unwind the changes Labour made which turbo charged the housing market last year Edited by loose.unit8 at 9:16 am, Wed 7 Apr loose.unit8 - 2021-04-07 09:16:00 |
| 156 | aklreels wrote: A community ought to be able to have a say on things that will severely affect them. A community ought to expect changes for the better not worse. pcle - 2021-04-07 09:16:00 |
| 157 | Bloody NIMBYs sparkychap - 2021-04-07 09:26:00 |
| 158 | pcle wrote:
I haven't signed the petition, but i might. heather902 - 2021-04-07 10:30:00 |
| 159 | pcle wrote:
Should the needs of the many outweigh the wants of the few or one? Edited by loose.unit8 at 11:59 am, Wed 7 Apr loose.unit8 - 2021-04-07 11:59:00 |
| 160 | loose.unit8 wrote: pcle - 2021-04-07 12:18:00 |
| 161 | loose.unit8 wrote: Maybe ask Spock? sparkychap - 2021-04-07 13:08:00 |
| 162 | Need more railway lines then. Would increase full time jobs for those in rail. tygertung - 2021-04-07 15:56:00 |
| 163 | sparkychap wrote:
Paraphrasing of course loose.unit8 - 2021-04-07 16:01:00 |
| 164 | heather902 wrote:
When I lived near there the bus service was pretty good. artemis - 2021-04-07 17:03:00 |
| 165 | artemis wrote:
Was it, that's good. But the bus service has nothing to do with high density housing.... or 4 storey apartment block s would be springing up everywhere except in my backyard as we have no bus service. :) heather902 - 2021-04-08 07:47:00 |
| 166 | MPs from outside the Wellington region are allowed to claim a capped accommodation allowance to cover their living costs in the city. Most use it to rent flats or hotel rooms, but more than a dozen MPs purchase Wellington accommodation and claim the allowance – effectively renting their Wellington accommodation from themselves. Luxon is in good company. His current and former party leaders Judith Collins and Simon Bridges both claim the allowance. As of the most recent register of MPs' property holdings, both own Wellington accommodation. Andrew Bayly, Jacqui Dean, Barbara Kuriger, Melissa Lee, Ian McKelvie, Mark Mitchell, Simon O’Connor, Stuart Smith, Louise Upston and Michael Woodhouse also claim the allowance whilst owning Wellington accommodation. Labour MPs Willie Jackson, Jenny Salesa, Jamie Strange, and Jan Tinetti have also declared a pecuniary interest in a Wellington property. At the time of publication, representatives for these MPs had not answered whether they claimed a Parliamentary allowance for living in those properties while in Wellington. How many houses do our MPs own, and do they do it for their retirement nest egg, or to be selfless landlords to benefit those who cannot buy a house. Or to buy a house for each of their children. Judith Collins said "We're going to take out anything to do with the bright-line test, anything to do with more than a two-year period" . And restore it to the way it was. Auckland housing $ surpassed that of Sydney a few years ago, and is it no 1 in the world today? Is there a chance of Parliament enacting a law to make housing affordable, like in home ownership? And not pay rent for life, and suffer the consequences of little equity in old age? Bring on the Greens. Oops... how many houses do you own, aklreels - 2021-04-09 07:24:00 |
| 167 | Fun fact number 1 there is a developer just finished 17 units near my friend, 10 have gone straight up for rent (may have been more.) 1 is for sale and at least 1 is on airbnb (could be the same as a rental one who knows.) I havn't kept records but checking just now I'm sure the asking rents have all just dropped by at least $50 a week. Fun fact number 2 We're househunting, it's been for a while and quite sporadic because we're looking for something particular, went to see a house a couple of weekends ago, was clear with the agent what we are looking for. Just had an email about a home and income that didn't sell at tender, havn't had one of those for months (probably pre lockdown 1!) Out of curiosity does anyone have figures for what stated and real inflation would have done to house prices in those countries over that time frame? magicroundbout - 2021-04-09 12:54:00 |
| 168 | tygertung wrote: Then they can pull them up and turn them into Cycle Trails ............ brouser3 - 2021-04-09 16:03:00 |
| 169 | This statement from this lady sums it up about New Zealand housing: “drowning in my own country” Very sad reading this. Once upon a time her family was able to afford to buy a house in Westmere. lakeview3 - 2021-04-11 07:58:00 |
| 170 | lakeview3 wrote: what she's saying is that now all Maori should be given a home, now we are on the identity gravey train, apparently my life choices have nothing to do with it. Reverse racism. gabbysnana - 2021-04-11 08:25:00 |
| 171 | lakeview3 wrote:
hmmm in 1970? before the times of the DPB and Social and relationship freedoms we *enjoy* now. Maybe the housing market might look a little different without the pressures that puts on housing stock. this sort of stuff, she had a home but prefers a social housing home... so much pressure on the tax payer to provide for all. Edited by heather902 at 8:29 am, Sun 11 Apr heather902 - 2021-04-11 08:26:00 |
| 172 | lakeview3 wrote:
She’s certainly had a lot of bad luck and made some bad decisions. lovelurking - 2021-04-11 08:29:00 |
| 173 | Interesting responses. Sure doesn’t leave much leeway for people to get made redundant, divorce, health problems, make one bad decision does it? fact is, once one of those things happens these days, a large number of people would be screwed. Don’t think it could happen to you? Think again. I know of 2 relationships that have ended in the last 2 years, one of over 50 years and the other a marriage of over 30 years. so just when you are sitting all pretty thinking it couldn’t happen to you, well it could. Then what? lakeview3 - 2021-04-11 08:36:00 |
| 174 | "Only two weeks into operating another serious illness hit the Frelan family. Frelan asked for the details not to be published, but it meant four months of visits to hospital." Then they link to an old article that details said illness.... sparkychap - 2021-04-11 08:37:00 |
| 175 | lakeview3 wrote:
Don't we already support families through relationship break up pretty well really now compared to the 70's heather902 - 2021-04-11 08:40:00 |
| 176 | heather902 wrote: I didn’t say anything about taxpayer support. I meant that if any of us have a marriage break up and we split assets in 2, how many of us could afford at an older age to pick up the pieces and go set ourselves up in another house? lakeview3 - 2021-04-11 08:52:00 |
| 177 | lovelurking wrote: "A $10,000 loan grew as Frelan failed to make payments. By the end, Frelan said she had paid $56,000 to the lender and the family home was sold for $385,000 to service the debt." Have to wonder where she borrowed that money from to be hit by interest and penalties like that so quickly.... sparkychap - 2021-04-11 08:58:00 |
| 178 | lakeview3 wrote:
Do you think that that comes down to personal responsibility? heather902 - 2021-04-11 09:01:00 |
| 179 | gabbysnana wrote:
???? ???? ???? ???? ????. lovelurking - 2021-04-11 09:06:00 |
| 180 | lovelurking wrote: "Once were landlords"? sparkychap - 2021-04-11 09:08:00 |
| 181 | heather902 wrote: have you ever been divorced? I have. Let me tell you personal responsibility isn’t going to ‘help’ you if the other person checks out emotionally for whatever reason. Unless you mean having a secret stash of money squirrelled away??? The second case I highlighted, one partner was completely in shock, utterly blindsided. The other case pretty much the same and it’s got very ugly with the splitting of assets. Gone to courts and still going and both cases the people are in their late 70s. Don’t ever take anything for granted I say. lakeview3 - 2021-04-11 09:13:00 |
| 182 | sparkychap wrote: more like once were home owners Edited by lakeview3 at 9:14 am, Sun 11 Apr lakeview3 - 2021-04-11 09:14:00 |
| 183 | lakeview3 wrote: Yeah breakups suck, especially older in life. But what do you want to happen? sparkychap - 2021-04-11 09:17:00 |
| 184 | sparkychap wrote: well I would have liked to think that it meant people weren’t out of the housing market. Houses are so unaffordable and there aren’t many options for housing for older people that are affordable. Even 2 bedroom units are outside of most older people’s purchasing range and there just aren’t enough available. Not even council flats any more. That was always a backstop in the past. lakeview3 - 2021-04-11 09:29:00 |
| 185 | lakeview3 wrote: And if everything was cheaper, they'd come out of the relationship with less anyway. The reality for any situation is that without a decent income you're not going to get back on the housing market full stop as you won't get a mortgage anyway. Situation for younger is often just as bad, especially for the female who statistically will be earning less than the male, and is likely to end up with the care of any children. The example in the article is a lady on (probably) pretty low wage who is 65. She started renting 12 years ago, and is complaining about this now? sparkychap - 2021-04-11 09:35:00 |
| 186 | sparkychap wrote:
My eyebrows also shot up at that. artemis - 2021-04-11 09:51:00 |
| 187 | lakeview3 wrote:
I imagine it totally sucks. but when i say take responsibility I don't mean for the break up. But your finances are what they are. maybe you get together with another person in the same situation and buy a property. Not ideal no but you do what you have to do. heather902 - 2021-04-11 10:24:00 |
| 188 | Here's a story for you, lakeview. The same issue is happening in most of the West. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBb9zf_zWvU apollo11 - 2021-04-11 11:46:00 |
| 189 | apollo11 wrote: yeah interesting eh. Already happening here to a degree. Remember when we had busloads of foreigners buying streets of houses in Auckland- they were purchasing as groups. Reading the comments is sobering isn’t it? As I have said many times before we are returning to Victorian times. Two classes of people. Those that own everything and those that own nothing. Thanks for the link BTW. Edited by lakeview3 at 12:08 pm, Sun 11 Apr lakeview3 - 2021-04-11 12:03:00 |
| 190 | Yes, it's the point one percent you need to blame, the ones who have benefited from the gross financialisation of the world's economy, plus the predatory banking system. apollo11 - 2021-04-11 12:30:00 |
| 191 | apollo11 wrote: Not at all. Almost all of them are business people. They don't make money unless people willingly buy their product. Bad Government is the cause. Don't believe the propaganda blaming everyone but themselves. pcle - 2021-04-11 15:08:00 |
| 192 | pcle wrote: apollo11 - 2021-04-11 16:29:00 |
| 193 | Sections for sale Flat Bush 140 sq m $518,000 Huapai, Rodney 191 sq m For sale by tender Waiuku 1,475 sq m $470,000 Warkworth 923 sq m $569,000 Glenfield 400 sq m $399,000 aklreels - 2021-04-14 12:32:00 |
| 194 | Residential Housing is an investment One long-term problem identified by Ardern, cultural as much as political, has been the view of housing as a lucrative and ever-reliable investment. Housing Minister Woods shares that concern and says the Government is working on options to encourage alternatives, like “build to rent” apartment developments designed to be tenanted long-term rather than sold to individual owners. Government measures on house prices are working Remember FOMO? The 'fear of missing out' is a big deal in the world of house sales. But things have changed. aklreels - 2021-04-16 10:05:00 |
| 195 | I've noticed more 'for sale' signs going up in some streets known to have a high number of rentals, perhaps the changes to tax policy are having an effect. apollo11 - 2021-04-16 10:17:00 |
| 196 | Online auction, Barfoot and Thompson, 16th April, Central Auction Rooms REINZ Properties also sold at the fastest pace in a March since records began, sitting on the market for 28 days on average, and more than a third (34.0 per cent) of them sold at auction, the highest percentage ever. “Over the next couple of months we would expect house prices to continue rising but we hope this will be at a slower pace than we’ve seen over the last 6 to 12 months.” she said. I get it, they are talking about results to March, not what is happening at auctions yesterday or the past week. aklreels - 2021-04-17 09:41:00 |
| 197 | Yes Barefoot and Thompson auction results from interest.co 28 sold 48 passed in. Huge switch around. mkr_ahearn - 2021-04-17 10:48:00 |
| 198 | heather902 wrote:
Wow! talk about assumptions! did you miss out on the empathy gene? Isn't it possible she is seeking affordable security for her child? upfront1 - 2021-04-17 16:06:00 |
| 199 | upfront1 wrote:
How is being a Parent being in a vulnerable situation? heather902 - 2021-04-18 09:19:00 |
| 200 | apollo11 wrote: it’s also a Ponzi scheme we’ve all fallen for - getting “rich” by selling each other property for ever increasing debt, fuelled only by scarcity, FOMO and artificially low interest rates. sparkychap - 2021-04-18 09:27:00 |
