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Good article mate. Good to see it getting significant traffic on twitter etc.

Someone has to call this stuff out.

Couple years ago I was watched as a friend and partner (mid 30's) purchased a normal/nice seeming 4-bedder for $2.9M in Sandringham Auckland. I thought he said $1.9M and I was holding my mouth (holy shiit), but it was $2.9M.

Its down at least $500K in 3 years. Serious money for a young family, thinking they are making a safe investment. Not to mention their loan is probably around $1.5-2.0M, meaning at least $100K/year of interest payments.

I have no clue on what planet this makes sense. Unfortunately it looks like it was peak market pricing.

I swear people won't believe anything about housing ever going down, until it literally slaps them in the face.

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Nice Piece. I’m receptive to property falling another 15-30%. I think when The trifecta of further house price falls, more recession and higher unemployment continues the RBNZ will cut. A higher inflation regime will cause the NZD to fall if the reserve bank is cutting . They will sacrifice the currency to cushion a big chunk of the fall in property prices. In other words the 35-50% fall from peak prices won’t also include a NZD that is 20-30% lower in USD terms in most punters heads

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