While Westpac Bank has long forecast a cooling in the housing market, the pullback has been faster than it expected.

CoreLogic’s Buyer Classification data for January shows the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance changes from the end of last year are having little impact on investors.

While landlords are struggling to pay higher costs of owning a residential rental property, rents are absorbing 22% of gross average household income.

Ongoing periods of Covid-fuelled disruption to office tenancies in the past two years have not seen businesses give up their commercial leases en masse, despite predictions this would happen.

The government finally makes moves to regulate property managers.

House prices and sales are down, the latest REINZ data shows.

Investors are planning to add to their portfolios in the coming year but mainly outside residential property.

Private landlords could be faced with further restrictions on running their properties as a business.

Property sellers in every region around the country wanted at least 15% more for their house year-on-year in December.

The Property Investors Federation has rebutted a Sunday Star Times article claiming there are 605,722 investment properties owned by 533,000 people or businesses in New Zealand.

Weaker prices for houses, particularly in Auckland, could mean the start of the long-anticipated downturn in the market.

Anti-property investor and landlord sentiment is still reigning supreme, with the contribution most investors make to providing accommodation and improving the housing stock ignored by many, says tax accountant Matthew Gilligan of Gilligan Rowe & Associates.

A mortgage is not just getting more expensive as interest rates rise. A mortgage is now hard to get full stop, says Jarrod Kerr, Kiwibank chief economist.

A Tauranga tenant has been evicted after a routine property inspection by the landlord found cannabis plants and growing equipment in three areas of a rental property at Papamoa Beach.

Real estate agents are reporting fear of missing out (FOMO) has finally been dented.

A violent de-patching of a gang member at a Tokoroa rental property led to the landlord getting an eviction notice to turf out the tenant.