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Christchurch 2024 – An Overview For Investors
The new coalition government comprising National, Act and New Zealand First – formed at the end of 2023 - has brought with it significant changes for property investors and an increase in optimism throughout the sector is already becoming apparent as a sliding housing...
State Of The Nation: What’s Happening With Apartments in 2024
The market’s up, the market’s down, the market’s shaking it all around; every day, it seems, the headlines tell a different story and it’s hard to know how to find out exactly where things are at right now with property investment in apartments. What’s the history...
Is 2024 The Time To Get Into Property Investment?
Here at Money Empire our services are based on our extensive training – and also on our personal experiences, because we believe it’s vital to have talked the talk and walked the walk ourselves in order to offer the very best-informed advice to you, the client. This...
Insurance: Looking after your biggest asset
2023 proved beyond doubt that house and contents insurance is absolutely vital, when the climate-change- charged weather events of almost a year ago shocked the country and made us realise how vulnerable we really are. These disasters came at a time of historically...
New Year – New You
Now’s the ideal time to get your financial house in order! It’s been a tough year but it’s almost over and it’s perfectly reasonable to feel confident that 2024 will be a fair bit better. We finally have a new government, so the political uncertainty of the past few...
Retirement in New Zealand: How Much Money Do You Need?
Life has a funny habit of speeding up once you get through your forties and fifties and before you know it, 65 and retirement can be staring you in the face - with all the exciting possibilities it represents, once you’re freed from the shackles of work. However, if...
Overseas buyers are keen to buy residential property in New Zealand
New Zealand real estate agents are noticing a rise in interest from overseas buyers following the announcement of National’s tax policy, which would remove restrictions on overseas buyers while imposing a 15% tax on residential property purchases. In 2018, the Labour...
Navigating Money in New Relationships
Now, more than ever, we need to be on the same page as each other in a relationship – especially if it’s a relatively new one. Times are turbulent and there’s a great deal of uncertainty in the air. Interest rates have been heading up and so is the cost of food and...
Interest rates: What’s happening with them? What affects them?
Mortgage interest rates are in the news when they’re low - and even more so when they’re high. However, what feels high - at the moment - might not be as dramatic as you think. Yes, it does feel as though rates have recently moved significantly from one extreme to...
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