Oops! I bought a new house....
The house represents the beginning of his property journey, he says - and yet it was an “accidental” purchase. This might sound a bit odd but, in fact, recent research conducted for property listings website Realestate.co.nz suggests that it is not that unusual. In the November 2020 survey, 14 per cent of respondents said they had bought a property when they hadn’t originally intended to do so. Of those who had done so, 4 per cent had done so in the past 12 months while 4 per cent had in the past two or three years. Realestate.co.nz spokesperson Vanessa Taylor said, in previous s...