Migrants on the so-called golden visa will soon be allowed to invest in funds that support long-term rental housing developments.<\/p>\n
The Active Investor Plus visa ‘growth’ category requires a minimum investment of $5 million.<\/p>\n
From December, applicants will be able to include build-to-rent housing developments as part of their overall investment in New Zealand.<\/p>\n
As it stands they can make direct investments, invest in managed funds, or make donations (which cannot exceed 20 percent of the total amount invested).<\/p>\n
Immigration Minister Erica Stanford said it would help people make a meaningful contribution to the economy.<\/p>\n
“The growth category is particularly focused on investment that supports business growth, innovation and productivity,” she said.<\/p>\n
“Adding Build to Rent gives investors another option, while keeping that focus through the managed funds model.”<\/p>\n
Housing Minister Chris Bishop said it would help boost the country’s housing stock.<\/p>\n
“Build to Rent can add to rental supply over time, while the managed funds model provides clear safeguards around who manages the investment and how developments are delivered,” he said.<\/p>\n
Direct investment in build-to-rent developments would not be accepted.<\/p>\n
In April 2025 the government updated the Active Investor Plus visa settings to create two categories: growth (at least $5 million investment for at least three years) and balanced (at least $10 million investment for at least five years).<\/p>\n
Since then, there had been $5 billion invested across more than 900 applications, the government said.<\/p>\n
More than 80 percent of applications were under the growth category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Migrants on the so-called golden visa will soon be allowed to invest in funds that support long-term rental…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-594108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}