The Property Academy Podcast

In this episode, we discuss the Real Estate Insitute of New Zealand house price index, along with why it's important, how it's calculated and how to read it.

We also compare the index to changes in …

In this episode, we discuss the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand's latest report, which gives data about how the property market operated during July 2020. 

The New Zealand median house price is…

In this episode, we discuss 7 ways that you can stay motivated towards your property investment goals. 

These include: filling your social media feed with property investment-related content, puttin…

In this episode, we discuss the Auckland property market and how the Covid-19 induced shutdown has the potential to impact that property prices there.

Our read of the situation is that there will be…

In this episode, we discuss the 4 major government announcements that have been released over the last week ... all of which impact the New Zealand property market. 

These announcements are: a) the …

In this episode, we discuss the latest version of Kiwibuild, with the government promising to give funding to developers who aren't able to make the required number of presales to get bank funding. 

In this episode, we discuss the new residential tenancies act, which has officially passed and will be implemented in 6 months from now. 

Here, we talk through some of the speeches given during the …

In this episode, we are again joined by Amber Arkell from Survus Landsurveyors and Good Title to talk about what can go wrong within a cross lease. 

Amber specifically touches on the fact that a cro…

In this episode, we are joined by Amber Arkell from Survus Landsurveyors and Good Title to talk about the fundamentals of cross leases and what investors need to know about them.

Of particular inter…

In this episode, we answer a question coming from a listener of the show about what Andrew would do differently if he was starting out from scratch again on a modest income. 

The main takeaway is th…

In this episode, we discuss a recent case from the Tenancy Tribunal, which showed why it paid for one investor to specify the number of tenants on their lease. 

We also walk through how this tribuna…

In this episode, we discuss the most recent RBNZ Credit Conditions Survey which asks the banks qualitative questions about how they expect the market to perform over the next 6 months and how the mar…

In this episode, we discuss the difference between increases in the median value of a suburbs house price and the median capital growth achieved by investors. 

This is a small but important differen…

In this episode, we discuss what investors need to know about renting their properties to Housing New Zealand. There are both benefits and drawbacks to having Housing NZ as your tenant. 

Typically H…

In this episode, we discuss the fundamentals of investing in commercial property with Jonnie Lyttle from Citadel. 

Here, Jonnie shares the three types of commercial property rents, along with the fu…

In this episode, we are joined by Jonnie Lyttle from Citadel, who is a commercial property investor and a former commercial real estate agent.

Hear, Jonnie shares his story of how he bought his firs…

In this episode, we discuss new data we've collated that shows how Kiwis set realistic property investment goals based on people who have actually been through the Opes process. 

This is a recap of …

In this episode, we discuss ANZ's latest announcement that they will decrease the servicing test rate from 6.65% to 5.8%. This means that investors can in some instances borrow up to 13%+ more than p…

In this episode, we discuss negative interest rates and the potential for New Zealand's OCR to go negative. We cover the fact that a negative OCR does not mean negative retail interest rates ... the …

In this episode, we talk about the good and the bad of investing in individual hotel rooms. This episode comes from recent articles in the media regarding the Sofitel hotel in Auckland's viaduct. 

T…