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21 December 2001

Roller coaster year for housing and mortgage markets

For the housing and mortgage markets, it’s been a year of fits and starts: by as early as March it looked like a convincing recovery in activity from the depressed 2000 was underway, but then followed a rather fitful winter.

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18 December 2001

House sales jump in November

November real estate figures provide conclusive evidence that the Reserve Bank’s interest rate medicine is reviving the housing market.

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18 December 2001

Fixed mortgage interest rates begin to firm

Summer may have just started, but it maybe the end of the golden weather for fixed term mortgage rates.

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13 December 2001

Kiwi home ownership levels sink

The level of home ownership in New Zealand has slipped to just two-thirds of the population.

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