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[ad_1] A $100,000 loan from Christchurch City Council will help a growing bowling club expand its greens. The loan for the Halswell Bowling Club was approved today by the Council’s Sustainability and Community Resilience Committee. “The Halswell Bowling Club is in a growing area of Christchurch and it wants to develop an additional bowling green…
Watching John Key & co deal with South Canterbury Finance yesterday was exciting. The Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance forked out $1.6 billion under the Crown Retail Deposit Guarantee Scheme. Good move. The NZ government are admitting liability and paying out depositors who trusted government regulators would protect them. Regulatory responsibility has been a series…
What a ride. Its been great. Thanks to everyone who has subscribed to this blog and who continues to read it. Traffic is increasing steadily with now over 500 unique views per day and over 40,000 unique views in the 11 months of writing this blog. Lets go for the next 100 and upward of…
Today I read a very interesting article on stuff.co.nz about an Auction that a good friend of mine Roland Lina conducted last night in New Plymouth. It highlights a good point about what is happening in the market. The article reads as follows. Three words are dominating Taranaki’s real estate pages “sell, sell, sell”. As…
Well it is interesting to note that now after almost 5 weeks ago the OCR dropping to a record low in New Zealand of 3.5% the banks are now only just starting to pass the interest rates to the consumer. I am aware that the banks are facing increasing pressures as the sost of buying…
Its official. Sales volume is the lowest it has been for 16 years 11 months and the market has never been harder to work. Sellers, Buyers and agents… We are all having to adjust, compromise and accept that the days of the boom are well and truly over. And property prices have in fact in…
Yesterday the ANZ National Bank announced property loans will now have to have a 20% deposit. Now this closes up the banks and means that lending in throughout New Zealand is tightening up and buying is becoming a lot more difficult. The 20% deposit in many cases will now need to be savings which means…
This is a small exert from an interview I did with a guy named Bill James. Bill is a great financial adviser and I have been working closely with him in creating a book and a workbook that should be ready for print in a few months. I thought this was important for buyers and…
Buying a home is a big step in your life and should be a very exciting time. Unfortunately, many individuals rush into buying a home with out considering the implications is has on their future. If you’re considering making the move to own it’s important you weigh all the options, and consider what if anything…