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Rural New Zealand remains resilient
01-Dec-2020 09:20:24
Topics: Rural, Lifestyle, New Zealand, Investors, REINZ, Rural market, Lifestyle and Rural Property Focus, Lifestyle and rural property, farm
REINZ Property Management Conference
26-Nov-2020 12:47:59
Topics: Property Management, New Zealand, REINZ, Property Management Focus, Property Manager
Property Management Code of Conduct and licensing regime welcomed
26-Nov-2020 12:45:42
Property managers play a powerful role in the housing of over 600,000 New Zealanders, including 43% of all children and those vulnerable to housing insecurity.
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Topics: Industry Update, Property Management, New Zealand, Housing Market, Property Management Focus, Property Manager
Privacy Act 2020
26-Nov-2020 12:36:46
On 1 December 2020, the new Privacy Act 2020 will come into effect. The Act introduces a number of new privacy protections for individuals and obligations for businesses and organisations.
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Topics: Property Management, New Zealand, Property Management Focus, Property Manager
Strategies for heating open plan areas
28-Oct-2020 11:00:00
In New Zealand, we love open plan living which eliminates barriers such as walls and doors that traditionally separated distinct functional areas. The flow that open plan living provides is well espoused by real estate agents as a highly sought-after feature of a property, unless you are trying to comply with the healthy homes heating standard.
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Topics: Property Management, Landlords, New Zealand, Property Management Focus, health and safety, Advice for Landlords
Low-value asset threshold for depreciation
28-Oct-2020 07:05:14
The Government passed legislation in March 2020 that temporarily increased the low-value asset threshold for depreciation from $500 to $5,000.
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Topics: Property Management, Landlords, New Zealand, Property Management Focus, legislation, health and safety, Advice for Landlords
Auctions are go!
29-Sep-2020 11:32:31
It’s rare to hear of thriving areas of industry during these unprecedented times we are in, yet Harcourts auctions across most of the country are smashing records.
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Topics: Auctions, New Zealand, Auction Results, property focus, Buying at auction
How Covid-19 is changing what we need and want from our homes
29-Sep-2020 11:31:53
During this year’s lockdown, as our homes became ‘our castles’, many of us started to pay more attention to our surroundings.
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Topics: Residential, Lifestyle, New Zealand, Add Value To Your Property, property focus, home improvements, Health and Wellbeing, Corona Virus, COVID-19, Working from home
Healthy homes standards assessments and making a plan
28-Sep-2020 12:07:07
Did you know that if you have not had your rental property assessed for its current level of compliance with the healthy homes standards and it becomes vacant, you will not be able to re-tenant the property until you do? That will be the case from 1 December 2020.
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Topics: Property Management, Residential, Landlords, New Zealand, Property Management Focus, Advice for Landlords