How this current housing boom is different
How this current housing boom is different Newshub 16/12/2020 Dan Satherley © Video - Newshub; Images - The AM Show/Newshub. Watch: Government to wait until next year to act on the housing crisis. A property investment expert has claimed if you put on a blindfold, stick a pin into a map of New Zealand and buy a house wherever it landed, you'll make money. The problem is, prices are getting so high even people with equity in their own home will soon struggle to have enough to buy an investment, says Ashley Church, former head of the Property Institute of New Zealand.