First-home buyers and ‘mums and dads’: The seismic shift in the property market – Taran Wiseman
The FHB share is holding higher than the 26% it was in 2024 and sub-26% in 2023, as…
Record portion of new lending goes to first-home buyers with small deposits as bank lending rules loosened
Furthermore, the Reserve Bank loosening the LVR restrictions it imposes on banks in December gave banks more leeway…
Dunedin millionaire Roger Fewtrell building homes to help first‑home buyers get ahead
“We build homes and we sell them for market value, and then I chip in a hundred grand…
Bay of Plenty property market: First-home buyers drive Tauranga housing as values trend upward
“The recent mortgage rate cuts, and likely another OCR cut, will stimulate the market.” Velocity’s suburb statistics, which…
First-home buyers’ 10-year, $260,000 rent bill to save deposit
Ten years ago, a buyer would have taken about nine years to save the deposit and would have…