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Kiwi Property portfolio value rises $9.2m

Staff reporters | Wed, 28 Oct 2020

Kiwi Property's office buildings keep increasing in value but earthquake strengthening costs lowered the value of its retail and mixed-use properties, including Sylvia Park.

Record mortgage loans rekindles housing bubble debate Brent Melville

Augusta buys Visy factory for $178m; Centuria raising A$100m

Staff reporters | Thu, 22 Oct 2020

Augusta plans to syndicate the Visy factory site from December.

Bracket creep pushes house buyers to $2m price tag Brent Melville

What property investors want from a new govt Brent Melville

NZ Rural Land Co’s $150m IPO a step closer Paul McBeth

RBNZ will need to pop the housing bubble: Kiwibank Brent Melville

Metlifecare objector claims Takeovers Code breaches, lack of info Jenny Ruth

A Queenstown property on a golf resort, sheep included Brent Melville

House hunters ignore rateable values, as FOMO kicks in Brent Melville

Shareholder tries to block Metlifecare sale Jenny Ruth

Vital Healthcare's manager to raise $150m

Jenny Ruth | Wed, 07 Oct 2020

The new capital will reduce Vital's gearing to 33 percent and NorthWest plans to free up further capital by selling about $100 million of more mature assets.

Listed property firms kickstart sales recovery after $2b covid hit Brent Melville

Housing is hot so why aren't realtors repaying the wage subsidy? Brent Melville

The reasons house prices won't fall Jenny Ruth

Metlifecare shareholders approve sale to 'unscrupulous buyer' Jenny Ruth

Wave of listings boost Auckland house sales

Staff reporters | Fri, 02 Oct 2020

Auckland house prices have largely ignored the city’s recent lockdowns, with sales continuing to track higher on a tsunami of new listings.Barfoot and Thompson said its sales last month were the highest for any month since the peak of the last property boom in 2017. Some 1,099 sa...