Despite headlines about recession, confidence lifted markedly in June.

The ANZ Bank says it is premature to believe that the Reserve Bank has done with OCR hikes and interest rates won’t rise any further.

Reserve Bank Monetary Policy Committee external member Robert Buckle says there must be post-pandemic assessments of the performance of central banks during Covid-19.

An unqualified member of Engineering New Zealand, has used the signature and identities of various chartered professional engineers to falsely sign off hundreds of homes in the central North Island, Bay of Plenty and Waikato.

The ANZ Bank says the latest data supports its assessment the housing market is tightening, which will lead to a 3% plus pick-up in house prices through the rest of this year.

The housing market is still finding a floor going by the value of last month’s new mortgage lending.

Retail business strategies are continuing to evolve in the post-pandemic operating environment, says JLL in its latest market snapshot.

The migration surge complicates the inflation picture, but is unlikely to be inflationary, says ASB.

Global short-end interest rates drifted higher last week as a handful of G10 central banks lifted policy rates, most notably Norges Bank and the Bank of England with 50bp hikes.

New Zealand households remain gloomy due to mounting financial pressures, making it difficult for mortgage advisers to get loans across the line.

Finance Minister Grant Robertson wants to make it clear the Commerce Commission banking study is not about bank conduct and culture.

The number of property sales last month was 7.5% higher than a year earlier – the first annual increase since May 2021, CoreLogic’s latest Chart Pack shows.

Median asking rents across the country hit $610 a week last month, another high this year.

Mortgage adviser and chartered accountant David Green says it’s time the industry turned into a profession.

Average asking prices for West Coast houses have dipped for the first time in the post-covid property market, Trade Me’s May Property Price Index shows.

Interest rate cuts will start in about nine months, says KiwiBank.