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Or not ?  It seems that there a number of opportunistic landlords out there who are so focused on short term gains that all other considerations are excluded . . .  like the effect evictions may have on existing tenants. Landlords need to be careful here, as what they are doing is opening up their...

Since the introduction of the new 15% GST rate on 1st October this year, most of the hype has been around the new rate and not the implication of the changes on investors and their future property transactions. In an attempt to clarify exactly the changes for investors, listed below are changes as we see...

On the 1st of October this year, the government enacted their new Residential Tenancies Amendment Act 2010 revealing a number of new and quite startling amendments that directly affects investors. One in particular is the requirement for any Landlord who is intending on being out of the country for more than 21 days MUST appoint an...

Over the last month or so, we have noticed that there has been an increase in activity with more investors referring properties for management. After discussing this with them, they mentioned that their recent experiences with the banks has been easier and not as arduous in terms of the amount of information that has been...

It seems that this could be the start of an Australian spend up in New Zealand with LJ Hookers acquisition of Harveys in New Zealand. The grandson of Leslie J Hooker founder (together with an investment group) bought the company back from Suncorp around October last year for $67 Million. Although, since the purchase, there...