News of a review of New Zealand’s immigration policy has some in the primary sector a little nervous.
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NZ Immigration under review
18-May-2021 06:41:25
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Topics: Rural & Lifestyle Properties, Immigration
Waiting for the cows to come home
17-May-2021 12:21:24
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
2020 ends on a positive note
12-Feb-2021 12:30:00
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
Livestock numbers under the microscope
12-Feb-2021 12:00:00
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
Latest updates on Mycoplasma bovis and infected properties
01-Dec-2020 09:20:42
Rural New Zealand remains resilient
01-Dec-2020 09:20:24
Topics: Rural & Lifestyle Properties, Investors, REINZ
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: Rural & Lifestyle Properties, Residential, home improvements, Home Maintenance, Health and Wellbeing, COVID-19, Working from home
New Zealand wine industry goes from strength to strength
31-Aug-2020 10:17:17
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
To auction or not auction, that is the question
31-Aug-2020 10:16:56
Why go to auction? As one Hawke’s Bay vendor recently discovered, going to auction was exactly what was required to get the result they were looking for, and quickly.
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Topics: Auctions, Rural & Lifestyle Properties, hawkes bay
Online stock auctions: the pros and cons of going virtual
05-Jun-2020 09:54:41
While the virtual world can never replicate the in-person experience, at a time when social distancing is the new normal, auctions have proven to be an effective method of selling everything from hand sanitiser to homes.
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Topics: Auctions, Rural & Lifestyle Properties, Advice, Online Auction