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10 September 2019

Spring activity so far

The main conversation in the past week has been mainly over whether or not the changes in KiwiBuild were justifiable. Some would argue that the changes have created some...

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04 September 2019

"Kiwibuild was a lever, not an outcome"

The Government announced that they would be dropping the 100,000 KiwiBuild homes in 10 years scheme, describing the plan as "overly ambitious".

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04 September 2019

Spring into action

The latest data from Realestate.co.nz is showing that there are signs of the usual spring life in property sales happening.

Street view of houses in Auckland suburb
03 September 2019

Economic Outlook

The big five banks released their economic outlooks earlier this week, and all are in agreement that growth is on the slow side.

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