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Thursday, 20 May 2021, 4:43 pm The Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ) welcomes the announcement in today’s Budget that $380 million has been allocated to Māori housing solutions, including building new housing stock and repairing existing stock. Wendy Alexander, Acting Chief Executive at REINZ says: “It is great to see an emphasis on Māori housing solutions in the 2021 Budget, focusing on building new houses in areas with high rates of Māori housing deprivation, repairs for ex...

Saturday, 15 May 2021, 5:12 am Right now, Christchurch homes are being built at the highest volume we have seen since the peak of the post-quake rebuild phase. This is mainly due to the increase in people wanting to downsize their homes. The homes being created are primarily smaller residences, including units, apartments, and townhouses. 53% of Christchurch city consents in 2020 were for these types of homes. Smaller homes in Christchurch are not limited just to townhouses and apartments, how...

Landing Press is calling for poems about housing for its next collection. “We want poems about every aspect of housing – owning, renting, homelessness, memories of houses, houses lived in in other countries, political, funny, nostalgic, painful,” ...

After months of reports of substandard emergency accommodation, particularly in Rotorua, the Government has finally made moves to improve the situation, National’s Social Development spokesperson Louise Upston says. “While these are good first ...

Friday, 14 May 2021, 6:48 am With the new healthy homes standards coming into force shortly, many landlords are facing a tough decision; which heating source to buy for their rental properties. It’s a hard choice, with many factors coming into play. Which heating sources will be effective enough to heat the whole house for tenants without costing the earth? After all, if the heating installed is too expensive, low-income tenants simply won’t be able to use it, making the whole exercise fut...

Friday, 14 May 2021, 6:36 am As a first-home buyer, the market is clearly tough to enter right now. House prices continue to boom, as they have done for at least the past year, and it doesn’t look like there’s an end in sight. House prices keep creeping upwards and move further and further out of reach for first home buyers who just want to be able to buy an affordable home. The Government is aiming to help by offering a $5,000 grant for those who earn under a set annual amount. For couple...

The New Zealand Law Society | Te Kāhui Ture o Aotearoa has told a parliamentary select committee there is widespread consensus that changes are needed to the Unit Titles legislative regime and that the most urgent changes should progress without ...

"Our new homes are making us sick and are well below the standard that is expected for human habitation in similar economies and climates around the world," says Damien McGill from the Superhome Movement, and just adding insulation is not the solution! McGill says our homes significantly influence our health and wellbeing and therefore our productivity, sentiments supported by Asthma New Zealand CEO Katheren Leitner who’s mission is a 50% reduction in asthma and COPD hospitalisation by 2029. ...

spokesman Louis Houlbrooke says: “Grant Robertson’s broken promises on residential taxes have led the Government down a dangerous path. Higher taxes on landlords were always going to lead to rent hikes, but rent control is not the answer.” “Rent control is a discredited policy that will see a litany of costly unintended consequences. Renters will desperately cling to rent-controlled tenancies, reducing liquidity in the market and locking others out. Meanwhile landlords will make up rev...

Fox21Online April 23, 2021 DULUTH, Minn.-Sen. Tina Smith was in Duluth today where she expressed continued support to bring more affordable housing to the area with the help of COVID relief funding. Smith visited the Northland’s latest collaborative project, where various entities are working together to turn the former Duluth Inn motel into housing for the homeless. Smith says she is continuing to work in the Senate to bring more affordable housing to the region, which she says there is a la...