Property Management

Housing prices ready to cool as immigration slows

Booming house prices are poised to come off the boil as the influx of migrants continues to ease, although investors are still priming a strong residential property market.

Thursday, February 05th 2004

This should bring house-price inflation - now running at almost 20 per cent - back into single-figure territory before the year is out.

December saw a net increase of just 1600 permanent and long-term migrants, down from 2200 in November. These figures count newcomers intending to stay for at least a year, and expatriates aiming to settle back here, minus long-term departures.

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Report dishes out housing advice

Unity First Home Buyer special	3.99
ICBC	4.25
SBS FirstHome Combo	4.29
Co-operative Bank - First Home Special	4.35
TSB Special	4.39
Co-operative Bank - Owner Occ	4.45
ANZ Special	4.49
ASB Bank	4.49
SBS Bank Special	4.49
Unity Special	4.49
Westpac Special	4.49

ASB Bank	4.49
TSB Special	4.49
AIA - Go Home Loans	4.49
SBS Bank Special	4.49
Kainga Ora	4.49
BNZ - Std	4.49
Kiwibank Special	4.49
Wairarapa Building Society	4.59
Nelson Building Society	4.59
ICBC	4.59
Unity Special	4.65

ICBC	4.99
BNZ - Std	4.99
SBS Bank Special	4.99
Kainga Ora	5.15
ASB Bank	5.15
AIA - Go Home Loans	5.15
Westpac Special	5.29
TSB Special	5.39
Kiwibank Special	5.39
Co-operative Bank - Owner Occ	5.49
BNZ - Classic	5.59

SBS FirstHome Combo	3.29
AIA - Back My Build	3.34
SBS Construction lending for FHB	3.74
CFML 321 Loans	3.95
Co-operative Bank - Owner Occ	4.99
Co-operative Bank - Standard	4.99
Heartland Bank - Online	5.30
ICBC	5.39
Kiwibank - Offset	5.65
Kiwibank	5.65
ANZ	5.69

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Housing prices ready to cool as immigration slows

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