Most of you will have watched those initial TV ads for the NZ Lotteries Commission’s new Big Wednesday lottery by now: he says he’d like a Porsche, she says she’d like a Range Rover. They decide they’d like both. Winning lotteries is one way of achieving personal wealth but the reality is the majority of us won’t achieve the lifestyle we dream about without setting some pretty stringent financial goals.

Quotable Value’s November property statistics show the residential property market still has a full head of steam.

QV reports that residential property values increased 15% annually in the November quarter, up from 14.5% growth reported in October.

The property value growth rate for November is the highest growth rate reported by QV this year, and is a turnaround from the slowdown that

Thousands of Rotorua residents will see their property values jump as a result of the new valuations released this week.

Q: After all the publicity about residential property I have decided to look at putting some surplus funds into commercial property. I understand that the returns can be greater, but so are the risks. What should I do to minimise them?

A Hamilton property investor is worried that many new property investors are going down the wrong track.

The listed property sector had its best month for 10 years during November as continuing interest drove stock prices up 7 per cent overall.

With the property market still hot, first home buyers appear to be heeding the warning signs and putting the quarter-acre dream on hold.

Strong demand for lifestyle properties resulting in a kick in prices during October, according to the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand.

The myth that Auckland's inner-city apartments are full of Asian students has been shattered by the first comprehensive analysis of Census returns for the central city.

There are simple formulas to getting rich as long as you are disciplined, but, as David Potts warns, there are also wealth hazards.

THERE’S money to be made for those investing in commercial properties.

National has exposed a loophole it says could see people exploiting Labour's new interest-free student loans.

The Securities Commission is investigating whether any insider trading took place before the half-year result announced by Kiwi Income Property Trust this week.

Listed property trust ING Property Trust (the Trust) has recorded an unaudited after-tax profit of $14.3 million for the six-month period to 30 September 2005, up 29 per cent on the previous half year.

Press Release: Kiwi Income Property Trust

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