All blogs posts by The Landlord

It's not the banks with the housing stockpile
2 Nov, 7:25am
I first heard the story that banks were stock-piling mortgagee properties earlier this year and sent one of my team out to investigate it. It sounded...

Uncanny prediction for house prices
7 Oct, 4:28pm
We’re into the next round of monthly house sales data with Barfoot and Thompson, earlier this week, releasing stats on

What's best? Renting or buying
27 Sep, 12:33pm
What’s best renting or buying? Radio New Zealand asked me that question last week, partly because another one of those affordability surveys had come...

Will investors still buy Chch property?
23 Sep, 7:51am
We Kiwis have a bit of a fascination with house price stats, which probably is no surprise considering our so called love affair with bricks and mortar. I...

Signs the property market is warming
2 Sep, 11:21am
The little theme of this week’s newsletter is about looking ahead at the property market and what is happening. Pondering the market is something we...

it's time for Gareth to shut up
23 Jul, 5:57pm
What planet is Gareth Morgan on? His rant, I mean article, in the NZ Herald this week attacking advisers is an odious, boring piece of copy which is best...