NZ Property Investor

The New Zealand Property investor magazine provides readers with information you can use to successfully invest in residential property. You can learn from the experts, read the stories of your fellow investors and keep up to date with the latest house prices and rental statistics.

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC • The level four lockdown might be over, but the impact of Covid-19 is not and that means uncertainty still reigns – even for those determined to hang in there through the storm.

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RTA REFORMS STEAM ON • The Covid 19 lockdown may have put a halt to most parliamentary business but it didn’t put a freeze on the progress of the Government’s controversial tenancy law reforms.

LANDLORDS.CO.NZ TOP FIVE – APRIL • The NZ Property Investor website, landlords.co.nz has had a busy month. Here are the top five most-read stories.

FEARS OVER TOUGHER SERVICING TESTS • Mortgage advisers say servicing tests are even tougher during the Covid-19 crisis, with banks testing borrowers on virus-constrained current income.

GET PROPERTY SMART • A new tool that enables investors to make more informed decisions has just come on to the market.

HEATED EXCHANGE • A threatening tenant has had their tenancy revoked, but has also been awarded compensation for various maintenance issues around a faulty fireplace, and gaps in windows and doors.

UNCERTAIN TIMES AHEAD • No-one is sure of what’s to come for the housing market as we enter the post-lockdown unknown but commentators agree the market is resilient and may not be down for long, writes Miriam Bell.

WHAT’S DRIVING HOUSE PRICES?

POST COVID-19 INVESTING • If you haven’t already got one, it’s time to put a risk management strategy in place, writes John Bolton.

STRUCTURE SUCCESS • What’s the best way to go, for a rental property owner who wants to restructure both their holdings and their borrowings effectively?

BIG CHANGE ON THE HORIZON • There is much speculation about how banks will respond with changes in lending restrictions, writes Kris Pedersen.

WORK HARD MAKE IT HAPPEN • Riyaan Mohamed went from being employed to wash dishes to owning $1.6 million of property before the age of 26, Joanna Jefferies writes.

TIP OF THE MONTH

WHAT IS STILL PROVIDING CASHFLOW RIGHT NOW?

WEATHERING THE STORM • Property investors may need to fasten their seatbelts because the Covid-19 crisis means some may be in for a bumpy ride but, if they can, they should hang on in there, reports Miriam Bell.

NZ PROPERTY INVESTOR SURVEY: COVID-19 FOR INVESTORS: RESPONSES FROM THE FRONTLINE

HAS THE SUN SET ON SHORT-TERM RENTALS? • When New Zealand shut the border to non-residents, there were reports of short-term accommodation flooding the rental market. Joanna Jefferies investigates the future of holiday rentals.

ROOM OR HOUSE?

COMMERCIAL BLUES • Covid-19 has dealt a harsh hand to the commercial property sector, but the general consensus seems to be that landlords and tenants need to work together to get through it, finds Miriam Bell.

PART II: COVID-19: WHAT COMMERCIAL INVESTORS THINK • We wanted some views on commercial property in the time of Covid-19 from those at the coalface. So we talked to some of the investors we’ve profiled in the past. Here’s what they had to say...

HOKIANGA HOBBIT HOUSE • Bought for just $80,000 in 2013, a cute “tunnel house” in Rawene has provided a determined single mum of two with a great first step up the property ladder, writes Joanna Mathers. 

WHAT WOULD MAKE THE MARKET GO BERSERK? • Andrew Nicol discusses three different potential lending structural changes as a result of the Covid-19 crisis.

TAX, PROPERTY AND COVID-19 • Mark Withers explains the tax...