Building supplies back to pre-covid levels

[donna]

Hi All,

The good news is that if you're building new, it takes less time. Building supplies levels are back to where they should be, however, don't expect a rollback of prices, there may be some decreases, to come but remember how much they've gone up.

Did you know it's more...

[Dens]

Wondering what the general appetite is out there for property investors - as the perfect storm of higher interest rates, loss of deductibility and rising costs etc all converge.

In the next year or three, what are your plans?
(Can choose multiple)

Feel free to suggest...

[donna]

Expect lots more scams as some people find legal ways to make money too challenging.

Not all room service providers are legit.

cheers,

Donna

[Rosco]

Hi all,

Do you want the new RTA changes to come in?

Do you want to lose the ability to issue a 90 days notice, to remove a tenant without giving a reason?


Making a submission would be great, but unfortunately on Ring Fencing there was only 110 submissions...

[Perry]

What options might there be?

It's well past time that LLs stopped passively accepting all the crap thrown at them by the current crop of socio-commie-clowns in the drone house and their media sycophants. Or any other W'gton woodenheads, for that matter.

An example is the Tenancy...

[Stevegoodey]

Hi Guys,

I'm looking for a simple Excel doc spreadsheet for keeping track of cash flow over multiple properties.

What do other investors use?

Appreciate any ideas.

Thanks

Steve

[artemis]

As small property investors walk away from investment properties in the newly regulated environment, better-financed long-term players will step in.

Article in NBR today, the rest behind the paywall.

Are readers here seeing this? Or doing it, given there are some multi-property...

[Perry]

Real Estate Institute: Help renters by regulating property managers
23 May 2018



See? PMs can't have high ethical standards unless they adhere to the REINZ Code of Agency Practice. The links below show how well that works!

There are so many instances in...

[donna]

I found this article on Stuff - a summary of why the rental property market in NZ is drying up. Being at the coal face we know why it's a tight market and is set to get tighter yet. So what's in the article:



Really? Are speculators Landlords? They buy and sell - or buy,...

[Perry]

Kiwi analysts say global economy strong, amid warning of financial crash
11 Jan 2017



I wonder who will be proved right?...

[ALHC]

I'm writing a piece for Property Investor on unconsented building works after the whole Vic Inglis rent-refund-reversal case. I'm talking to MBIE and the councils and lawyers, but thought there might be an investor out there who'd had a problem with this and found a solution or work-around to make the...

[Bluecoat]

from here...

https://www.interest.co.nz/opinion/9...ional-monetary...

[Anthonyacat]

I genuinely wasn't expecting any change to the Investor LVR restrictions, but they're dropping required deposits from 40% to 35%, as well as making more significant changes for the FHBs, with greater allowance for over-80% loans.

https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/news/2017/1...rve-bank-to-ea...

[mortgage broker]

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[Keys]

We have developed a quick survey on how our portfolio performs.

Is the property dry?
Are the neighbors noisy?
What is the electricity usage like?
Was the property warm?

Just a few things to get some feedback on how the property could be improved.
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