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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.
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.
Topics: Rural & Lifestyle Properties
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.
Topics: Auctions, Rural & Lifestyle Properties, hawkes bay
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.
Topics: Auctions, Rural & Lifestyle Properties, Advice, Online Auction
Rural Women New Zealand national president Fiona Gower was once asked why rural women were doing so well in leadership roles. Her response, their ability to multi-task. Often living in isolated locations, rural women have always had to be resourceful. "We're not just tea and scones", says Fiona.
Pictured: Suzanne Cottle, Lifestyle and Rural Specialist
Harcourts Rural and Lifestyle Specialist, Suzanne Cottle, knows firsthand what it feels like to be a rural woman and have your abilities underestimated. The impetus for her to learn about rural real estate came over 20 years ago when Suzanne and her husband tried to sell their farm.
Topics: Rural & Lifestyle Properties, Advice
Farmers receive a relatively small percentage of the consumer dollar paid for their products and are always on the lookout for ways to increase their margins.
An obvious way to achieve this is by increasing the size of the operation. Economies of scale are present in most types of farming, but higher total production does not always lead to greater margins. And for smaller producers who are producing a premium product, this may not be an option or even desirable.
Topics: Rural & Lifestyle Properties, Advice
Interest rates are at an all-time low but access to funding for rural property is becoming more difficult. The Reserve Bank’s proposal to increase capital requirements will reduce the banks’ ability to lend, at least until their reserves are built up, and could increase the cost of capital as the banks move to protect their margins.
Topics: Rural & Lifestyle Properties
The homes of the future are already here. Our friends at Rockend take a look at some of the smart home technology available.
Topics: Rural & Lifestyle Properties, Buying, Advice, Home Maintenance
Taranaki’s local economy is unique in New Zealand in that it’s fuelled, literally, by oil and gas. Though there are plenty of other industries thriving the region – beef farming for one as well as revived dairy prices, not to mention a healthy demand for lifestyle property from those looking to escape the cities – it is oil and gas that separates the region’s economic profile from the rest of the country.
Topics: Rural & Lifestyle Properties
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