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Housing, property, money, and what’s happening in New Zealand.
Capital Gains Tax: The Real Impact
Labour’s proposed capital gains tax has everyone talking, but most people are stressing about the wrong thing. If you do not want to pay the tax, you can simply avoid the asset. That part is easy.
The real issue is what it does to housing supply.
Medium-density homes in New Zealand are built because everyday investors buy off the plans. Their deposits unlock bank funding and that is what gets projects moving. First home buyers very rarely buy off the plans, so they do not fill that role.
If policy pushes investors out of the market, the pipeline slows. Projects stall. Supply shrinks. Rents rise. We have seen this before with the interest deductibility changes. The government ended up spending more than 400 million dollars a year housing families in motels.
Private landlords supply about 85 percent of rental homes in New Zealand. Government supply is only about 11 percent. If even a small number of private landlords exit, tenants have nowhere to go. Government cannot take them all in.
First home buyers are active right now and that is great. But they do not replace the pre-sales that fund new housing. Remove those pre-sales and fewer homes get built. It is as simple as that.
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About Us
21 years of residential investment property development experience
Assured Property began in 2004, based on one simple belief: investing in property should be easier for everyday New Zealanders.
Founder John Kenel bought his first rental property in Cambridge in 1997. Since then, he has built a large residential property portfolio and helped everyday Kiwis invest in new-build rental properties across the Waikato.
Assured Property focuses on practical, well-located residential investment properties designed with both the investor and tenant in mind.
After 21 years, close to 1,000 rental property investments, and more than 600 buyers, the focus is still the same: build good homes, in good locations, that work for the long term.
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