If you are buying an Investment Property in Hamilton, or planning on building one, then you’ll want to take a 30-second look at what TradeMe’s latest search data tells us.

NZ prices rose 9.1% in the 12 months leading up to 25th March, and another 5% post 25th March. But how about Hamilton and the Waikato region?

There’s a reason the world’s most manufactured car of all time was, and still is, the Toyota Corolla, and not the hand-made Rolls Royce Silver Shadow.

But it’s not widely known that Toyota has also been making houses in Japan since 1973. It has made over 100,000 and last year created a joint venture with Panasonic Homes, which already makes 6,000 a year in two plants.

And now, these Panasonic Homes are available in the Waikato.

So are we!

We recommend taking a look at this handy 7-minute summary from the property gurus at Corelogic detailing what is driving the property market and what might be around the corner. 

It was widely considered that the OCR going negative in 2021 was close to a full gone conclusion but a string of positive data has got investors reassessing the odds of negative interest rates. Inflation figures due this week may help to clarify the picture.

Agreements have been made with Affco and Fonterra who were previously appealing to council over the planned development. With these two parties now placated the developer Perry Group will apply for resource consent with a view to breaking ground mid-2021.

ANZ and ASB’s economists announced yesterday that the prospect of negative interest rates is very real after March 2021. So far the RBNZ told us that the OCR would remain steady at 0.25% until March, but ANZ and ASB are now predicting an immediate OCR cut in April 2021.

What does that mean for property investors weighing up how long to fix their loan for?