There are at least 200,000 property investors with rental properties in New Zealand. This statistic was plucked from new IRD data for year ending March 2013....
Sadly for kiwi home owners, leaky homes are a well-documented feature of the property market. Many owners of monolithic (plaster) clad properties built during the early...
Do you know the amount of notice required for property maintenance versus the notice required for property inspections? This caught out one Landlord who was self...
Selling your house is regularly rated as one of life’s most stressful experiences. Try telling that to investors who’ve gone through the sale of a tenanted...
Managing your own rental properties requires the patience of a saint when something goes wrong. It’s hard to keep the emotions in check when you own...
There are lot of different ways to screen tenants, but one of the best (and least understood) ways to ‘screen’ is to attract the highest-quality prospects...
It’s Election year and Capital Gains Tax is the hot issue. CGT was supposed to be the hot issue of the 2011 Election, maybe this time...
If you’ve bought or sold property in our largest city, it’s more than likely you will have at least a passing knowledge of the auction process....
When you have tenants who smoke heavily, you have a unit that’s going to need a special kind of deep-cleaning when that tenant leaves. You may...
Forget four letter words, there are three letters on the minds of most homeowners at the moment – OCR. If you’re a first home buyer, you’re...