The population of NZ is, according to our statistics dept, growing to the tune of one extra person every 5 minutes and 55 seconds. This is calculated considering one birth every eight minutes, one death every 14 minutes and one immigrant being granted NZ Residency every 8 minutes. Property prices are climbing out of reach..

There’s been a host of policy changes and restrictions applied to residential property investment in recent years. These include the reduction of chattel depreciation, the extension of the bright line test, looming changes to tenancy law which will better suit tenants...

As the virus spreads across the world, investors are desperately trying to forecast which direction yields will go. They will see that post-SARS and Bird-flu the bounce back in the property market trend eventuated as a ‘V’ shape, however we all know that we are dealing with quite a different animal here, so to speak.