OPIA Advertorial – April 2019
April 20, 2019
The Reserve Bank’s latest Official Cash Rate (OCR) announcement on 27th March 2019, left the OCR unchanged at 1.75%, however RBNZ has
The Reserve Bank’s latest Official Cash Rate (OCR) announcement on 27th March 2019, left the OCR unchanged at 1.75%, however RBNZ has
The Reserve Bank’s easing of the LVR restrictions came into effect from 1st January 2019. We have been inundated with calls and
I am happy to be writing another column as principal sponsor of CPIA. We are coming towards the end of another busy year and I
It has been two weeks since the announcement and immediate implementation of the new LVR rules (yes, they effectively started straight away as requested by the Reserve
Yesterday, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand issued some far reaching new and adjusted LVR rules. What this means is that most Investors will now need a
The NZ$1 billion housing pitch announced by the Government and focus on the First Home Buyer sounds like a step in the right direction. I
We have seen a tightening of two major lenders policy this week effectively restricting lending to overseas buyers and to investors building new houses and
The Reserve Bank’s announcement today of a drop in the Official Cash Rate by 25 basis points to 2.25% came as a a modest surprise
The big news this month is the Election result and the positive effect the result will have on the property market, particularly the investor property
A slow-down in sales Now that we are in the depths of winter we are certainly seeing a slow-down in property sales and hence mortgage
With inflation and commodities down and the NZ dollar up, one would have thought that interest rates could have been retained and current levels. But
As you will be aware the Reserve Bank put up the official cash rate to 2.75% on Thursday. This will generally have an immediate impact
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