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Auckland is on the cusp of a buyers’ market which has potential upside for both buyers and sellers.A modest fall in Auckland’s asking prices is offset by increases in other regions, while Wellington and four smaller regions hit asking price highs since records began in 2007.Real-time statistics from realestate.co.nz show that the Auckland region is indicating a shift into a buyers’ market. Data from March 2019 shows a small fall in the average asking price, more choice of properties and homes taking longer to sell.“While these are the classic indicators of a buyers’ market, it has potential upside for both buyers and sellers,” says realestate.co.nz spokesperson Vanessa Taylor.“That’s because sellers are also typically buyers looking for their next home. In the same market, buyers will be able to capitalise on lower asking prices for their next move, as the majority are likely to be trading up,” she says.The Auckland region’s average asking price fell 1.9% in March to $942,232, when compared to the previous month.<img src="http://www.fundmaster.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/REA0472-Property-Report-March-Maps2.jpg" alt="New Property Listing - Fundmaster">New listings in Auckland (4,363) were up 4.6% compared to March 2018, adding to the stock already listed for sale on realestate.co.nz. The total number of homes for sale (11,026) in this region in March was up 15.2% on the same time last year.The Auckland region accounted for nearly a third of all new listings across the country. Nationally, the number of new listings fell by 3.1% (to 12,102 homes) compared with March 2018.“Houses in Auckland are also taking longer to sell,” says Vanessa.“We’ve very much moved on from the pressure cooker market which peaked in 2017.”“It was a time when buyers and sellers had to make snap decisions under enormous pressure, with the nightmare possibility of a stumble on the next rung of the property ladder, such as selling a home but not able to purchase the next one because of the rise in prices in the interim.“In the current market, buyers and sellers can take a more considered approach to purchasing their next home,” she says.“A lift in new property listings, an increase in total stock and relatively stable prices takes the pressure off.“We’ve seen that Kiwi’s passion for property is not slowing down, with 1,135,945 unique browsers searching on realestate.co.nz during the month of March. This is up 25.2% on March 2018.“When looking at the past five years, the relatively stable price environment we have right now is a stark contrast to the heady increases between 2015 and 2017.“Less stress and more realistic expectations,” says Vanessa.<img src="https://www.fundmaster.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Screenshot-2019-04-03-15.21.23.png" alt="Auckland region march price - Fundmaster">“Falls in average asking prices could also possibly assist some first home buyers as these falls are across all price bands.“If people move up from their first to their second home, it will free-up stock at the entry level,” says Vanessa.<h3><img src="https://www.fundmaster.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/REA0472-Property-Report-March-Maps.jpg" alt="Property Asking Price Comparison"></h3>National increase in average asking prices counterbalance’s Auckland’s fall. Five regions hit all-time highs, since records began in 2007.The March fall in Auckland’s average asking price has been counter-balanced by increases in other regions throughout New Zealand. These include record highs in the Wellington, Manawatu-Wanganui, Marlborough, Central North Island and Southland regions.The national average asking price for March stood at $677,746, representing a 0.3% increase compared to the prior month.“While this is a relatively small increase, it shows that although the biggest region of Auckland has seen a backwards move in asking prices, there’s been enough happening across the rest of the country to counter-balance the overall impact,” says Vanessa.<img src="https://www.fundmaster.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Screenshot-2019-04-03-15.21.30.png" alt="New Zealand Average Property Asking Price - FundMaster">While not a record, the stand-out region in terms of a lift in average asking prices compared to the previous month was Taranaki, where asking prices rose 9.1% to $437,871.Wellington region comes alive“A healthy injection of new listings which has significantly built the region’s total stock levels, coupled with a stable price environment, is very encouraging for home hunters who have been long-starved for choice,” says Vanessa.The 944 fresh new listings brings the total number of homes for sale in the region to 1,286, with an average asking price of $657,788.“It’s been traditionally a tightly held market, so breaking the mould in March was very positive for the capital,” she says.<img src="https://www.fundmaster.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/REA0472-Property-Report-March-Maps4.jpg" alt="Buyer Market in Auckland New Zealand Housing Stock in March - Fundmaster"><img src="https://www.fundmaster.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/REA0472-Property-Report-March-Maps3-150x150.jpg" alt="auckland buyer market | New Zealand Inventory of Listings - Fundmaster ">For media enquiries, please contact:Alex Dudley, PPR T: 027 5399 555 E:&nbsp;<a href="mailto:alex.dudley@ppr.co.nz" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183);">alex.dudley@ppr.co.nz</a><h4>Glossary of terms:</h4>As the only provider of real estate data in real time, realestate.co.nz offers valuable property market information not available from other sources.<ul><li class="ql-align-center">Average asking price&nbsp;is not a valuation. It is an indication of current market sentiment. Statistically, asking prices tend to correlate closely with the sales prices recorded in future months when those properties are sold. As it looks at different data, average asking prices may differ from recorded sales data released at the same time.</li><li class="ql-align-center">Inventory&nbsp;is a measure of how long it would take, theoretically, to sell the current stock at current average rates of sale if no new properties were to be listed for sale. It provides a measure of the rate of turnover in the market.</li><li class="ql-align-center">New listings&nbsp;are a record of all the new listings on realestate.co.nz for the relevant calendar month. As realestate.co.nz reflects 97% of all properties listed through registered estate agents in New Zealand, this gives a representative view of the New Zealand property market.</li><li class="ql-align-center">Demand:&nbsp;the increase or decrease in the number of views per listing in that region, taken over a rolling three-month time frame, compared to the same three-month time frame the previous year – including the current month.</li><li class="ql-align-center">Seasonal adjustment&nbsp;is a method realestate.co.nz uses to better represent the core underlying trend of the property market in New Zealand. This is done using methodology from the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research.</li><li class="ql-align-center">Truncated mean&nbsp;is the method realestate.co.nz uses to provide statistically relevant asking prices.</li></ul>The top and bottom 10% of listings in each area are removed before the average is calculated, to prevent exceptional listings from providing false impressions.

Auckland is on the cusp of a buyers market

Auckland is on the Cusp of a Buyers’ Market

Property buyers chasing capital gains may find the most promising pickings in smaller towns rather than the big cities.A new report by property data company CoreLogic identifying the 10 best and 10 worst places for capital value growth over the last 12 months has found that the best performers were mostly in the lower North Island, while the worst performers, which all showed declines in capital values, were mostly in Auckland and Christchurch.The top 10 places, which had growth in property values of at least 15% in the last 12 months, were Kawarau, Featherston, Clifton (Invercargill), Waitangirua (Porirua), Otamatata (a village near Lake Benmore), Cannons Creek (Porirua), Greytown, Putaruru, Ranui (Porirua), and Martinborough.The worst 10 places, which all had capital value declines of 3-5% over the last 12 months were Parau (Waitakere), Laingholm (Waitakere), Beckenham (Christchurch), Huia (Waitakere), Schnapper Rock (North Shore), Hei Hei (Christchurch), Islington (Christchurch), Rakaia (near Christchurch), Flat Bush (south Auckland)&nbsp;and Aranui (Christchurch).“The general picture is of rising residential property values in the North Island, excluding Auckland, over the past year, with softer trends in the South Island,” CoreLogic research analyst Kelvin Davidson said.Affordability was clearly a problem across Auckland and would have affected suburbs such as Flat Bush ands Schnapper Rock.“The strength in values around the lower North Island in suburbs in Porirua and south Wairarapa has partly reflected first home buyers being pushed out of Wellington City and looking further afield,” he said.Another notable feature was that turnover of properties was higher in&nbsp;places where there was greater capital growth, and lower in areas with low or negative capital growth.Reference source:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.interest.co.nz/property/94761/highest-value-growth-has-mainly-been-concentrated-lower-north-island-biggest-value" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 122, 183); background-color: transparent;">https://www.interest.co.nz/property/94761/highest-value-growth-has-mainly-been-concentrated-lower-north-island-biggest-value</a>﻿

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The highest value growth has mainly been concentrated in the lower North Island (Kawarau, Featherston, Clifton)

The possibility of Capital Gains Tax being introduced on rental properties did not appear to affect house prices at the investment end of the market in the six months to March, according to interest.co.nz’s Rental Yield Indicator.The Indicator tracks the REINZ’s lower quartile selling prices for three bedroom houses over a six month period in 56 locations around the country where there is a high level of rental activity, and matches them with the median rents for three bedroom houses in the same areas.Those figures are then used to calculate an indicative gross rental yield figure in each of those areas, with a rising yield suggesting rents are rising more strongly than prices, and a falling yield suggesting prices are rising more strongly than rents.The figures are updated every three months. Over the six months to the end of March the REINZ’s lower quartile selling price for three bedroom houses was higher than it was in the six months to December last year in 40 of the 56 locations monitored, was lower in 15 and unchanged in one.That reverses the previous trend where the number of locations where prices were rising had been declining, and suggests that if the possibility of CGT was having a chilling effect on investment property sales, it didn’t flow through to prices.Even in Auckland, where the residential property market has shown the clearest signs of weakness over late summer, lower quartile prices for three bedroom houses rose in five of the 10 locations monitored (Beachhaven/Birkdale, Torbay, Glen Eden, Henderson and Avondale), and declined in five (Orewa/Whangaparaoa, Massey/Royal Heights, Highland Park, Papakura and Pukekohe).Rising prices may bring a smile to the face of investors who already own rental properties and are banking on a capital gain, but it has done little to improve the relative attractiveness of buying additional rental properties because rents haven’t risen at the same pace and overall, rental yields have declined.For the six months to March the indicative yields were down in 29 of the 56 areas monitored compared to the six months to December, while they were up in 18 and unchanged in nine.In the six months to December, yields were down (compared to the six months to September) in 26 locations, up in 19 and unchanged in 11.So there has been a shift in the market over the six months to March, where lower quartile prices for three bedroom houses in popular rental locations have firmed at a faster pace than rents, forcing down rental yields in the majority of those locations.Around the country there continues to be a substantial variation in indicative yields, and therefore in the relative attractiveness of buying rental properties in different locations, with the lowest indicative yields being in Auckland 3.4% to 5.1%, the Tauranga area 3.7% to 5.0%, Waikato 4.4% to 4.9%, Kapiti 4.5%, Wellington City 4.6% to 4.9%, Tasman 4.3% to 4.4%, Nelson 4.6% and Queenstown 4.0%.The areas with the highest indicative yields were Invercargill 7.2%, Flaxmere in Hastings 8.2% Wanganui 8.1% and Waitara/Inglewood 7.6%.To view the table and tracks the indicative yields in all 56 locations monitored by the Indicator&nbsp;<a href="https://www.interest.co.nz/property/99193/investment-property-prices-were-and-rental-yields-were-down-capital-gains-tax-debate" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 122, 183); background-color: transparent;">please visit the referral source article</a>

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Investment property prices were up and rental yields were down as the Capital Gains Tax debate raged

<h4>THE FUNDMASTER BLAZED A TRAIL OF VICTORY in 2017, 2018</h4>Fundmaster is fast becoming the number one choice for home loans and financial advice solutions for New Zealanders looking for excellent service, sound advice and a wealth of industry knowledge. Dev Dhingra, who has just been named&nbsp;<a href="https://www.indianweekender.co.nz/Pages/ArticleDetails/8/9240/Business/The-Fundmaster-blazes-a-trail-of-victory-yet-again-at-the-NZFSG-awards" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 122, 183); background-color: transparent;">New Zealand’s Home Loan Adviser of the Year at the NZFSG Awards</a>, heads the team up. FundMaster win first place in all three major categories of the NZFSG awards in 2018, 2017, 2016.&nbsp;We have been BNZ no.1 since we have started.<img src="http://www.fundmaster.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/fundmaster-awards-2018.png"><ul><li class="ql-align-center">NZFSG HOME LOAN ADVISER OF THE YEAR 2018 – 1ST PLACE NEW ZEALAND.</li><li class="ql-align-center">NZFSG HOME LOAN ADVISER OF THE YEAR 2018 – 1ST PLACE NORTHERN REGION.</li><li class="ql-align-center">BNZ ADVISER OF THE YEAR 2018 – 1ST PLACE NEW ZEALAND.</li><li class="ql-align-center">HOME LOAN BUSINESS OF THE YEAR 2018 – 3RD PLACE NORTHERN REGION.</li></ul><img src="http://www.fundmaster.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/fundmaster-awards-2017.png"><ul><li class="ql-align-center">NZFSG HOME LOAN ADVISER OF THE YEAR 2017 – 1ST PLACE NEW ZEALAND.</li><li class="ql-align-center">NZFSG HOME LOAN ADVISER OF THE YEAR 2017 – 1ST PLACE NORTHERN REGION.</li><li class="ql-align-center">BNZ ADVISER OF THE YEAR 2017 – 1ST PLACE NEW ZEALAND.</li></ul> <h4>Awards in 2016</h4><ul><li class="ql-align-center">NZFSG 2016 HOME LOAN ADVISER NORTHERN REGION – 3RD PLACE.</li><li class="ql-align-center">BNZ BROKER TOP PERFORMING MORTGAGE ADVISER 2016</li><li class="ql-align-center">BNZ ADVISER OF THE YEAR 2016 – 1ST PLACE.</li></ul>

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Auckland is on the Cusp of a Buyers’ Market

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Investment property prices were up and rental yields were down as the Capital Gains Tax debate raged

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