Recent content by JAL

New Zealand also has differing deposit requirements and length of loan term for commercial property and some non-mainstream residential lending. The interesting difference about these restrictions are that they are being imposed on the commercial banks by the Reserve Bank, and not from the...

The New Zealand Reserve Bank announced yesterday that investors buying properties in Auckland city will require a 30% deposit if a mortgage is wanted from a commercial bank (eg ANZ, Westpac etc). A 20% deposit was introduced last year nationwide. This is scheduled to apply from October this...

I have been managing my own rentals for over 30 years and as a policy do not use my residential or business address on the tenancy agreement or any correspondence. I use my law firm as business address for service. They just pass on unopened any mail or hand served notices received. They...

N Z Experience The current New Zealand experience is that even without a rush to the exits selling down is becoming very hard. Monthly sales volumes are around half of last years numbers country wide. Prices are holding up much better than volumes to date. I know of investors with...

Risk Reduction While the tax implications are beyond me as an outsider, I feel it could be a good risk reduction option for the parents to use their funds to invest in the new home thereby lowering the mortgage needed and interest payments. The much more comfortable LVR could give later...

Your circumstances will often determine where you see value. Homebuyers can often buy sooner (with a lower deposit) and in a better area. In some areas in a city you may have no choice, a whole suburb may be leasehold. Although you could say that the holder of a leasehold interest is...

To give a less extreme example. Two similar houses in one street. One is freehold Value 300K made up of 150k land and 150K improvements (house, garage, fences etc) One is leasehold Leasehold interest in the land and improvements say 160k Freehold interest in the land say 140K...

This is known in some countries as a Glasgow lease. This type of lease normally is for a term or 999 years with 21 year rights of renewal. Rent reviews were commonly at the 21 year renewals, but since inflation became a big factor of economic life many now have 7 year rent reviews. The owner...

Age 51, 18 rentals

[QUOTE=aussierogue; And the graph - wow how long did the professor take to find this little gem of a scandanavian town - and why? Why not use London, or Hamburg or anywhere else that may have less variables (bigger sample). The fact that the town is obscure makes me suspiscious. Plot Ballarat...

There are many things that could go wrong with our world. Economics is but one. I believe the older you get and the more you have experienced, the more you look for insurance in whatever form to lock in the gains you have made in life. It is not being negative, and no reason not to keep...

Hi Ausprop, I guess the point of reading views contrary to your own to become aware of risk you did not realise existed. Your impression is that since the 1970’s business has just rolled on and “these theories (depression, crash etc?) have been around” since then. What has also happened in...

I attempt to insure also. Trying to protect my property portfolio from major economic downturns or other events, I have paid a price that I think of as insurance by spreading my portfolio over many unrelated entities. All debt is carried in as few of these as possible. The idea is to prevent...

Wow, what can I say!! A picture is worth a thousand words. Hope you can get a refund?

Interesting comments Alex, almost as if we read different books.