The House of Inspiration

Substantial increases in the sale of farm equipment this year have reflected a continuing catch-up in on-farm vehicle investment as farmers look again to the future…but there’s a warning of an ongoing sting in the tail.

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Topics: Rural & Lifestyle Properties

If you are the owner of a lifestyle block worth more than $1 million and looking to sell, you now need to be aware of a new law known as the ‘Purchase Price Allocation Rules’.

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Topics: Rural & Lifestyle Properties

News of a review of New Zealand’s immigration policy has some in the primary sector a little nervous.

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Topics: Rural & Lifestyle Properties, Immigration

There’s many a weary farmer out there wishing their cows could get themselves from the paddock to the milking shed.

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Topics: Rural & Lifestyle Properties

REINZ data released in January 2021 show that 1,462 farms were sold in the year to December 2020, 15.6% more than were sold in the year to December 2019, with 26.2% more Dairy farms, 9.6% less Grazing farms, 32.0% more Finishing farms and 23.8% less Arable farms sold over the same period.

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Topics: Rural & Lifestyle Properties, REINZ, climate

The recently released Climate Change Commission Report highlighted that under current government policies, New Zealand will not achieve the Government’s target of being Zero Carbon by 2050.

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Topics: Rural & Lifestyle Properties, climate, livestock

 

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Topics: Rural & Lifestyle Properties, Mycoplasma bovis

 

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Topics: Rural & Lifestyle Properties, Investors, REINZ

 

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: Rural & Lifestyle Properties, Residential, home improvements, Home Maintenance, Health and Wellbeing, COVID-19, Working from home

The burgeoning wine industry in New Zealand attracts a lot of interest, with many people acquiring property either for serious production purposes or a combination of production and lifestyle.

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Topics: Rural & Lifestyle Properties