House prices: Landlord sells rental to tenant below market value
House prices: Landlord sells rental to tenant below market value 30 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM 5 minutes to read The sale price is just the beginning. Ben Leahy is a reporter for the New Zealand HeraldBen.Leahy@nzherald.co.nz Arpit and Hinal Patel arrived at a small, Far North unit in 2017 simply looking for a rental. Yet, as they stepped inside the Kaitaia flat, they were actually walking into the first home they would ever buy - they just didn't know it yet. That's because they had chosen to rent from Jane, a landlord passionate in her belief that property investing came with social responsibility.