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A home of your own. A stronger foundation for life.
Owning a home is about more than property. It’s about security, independence and having more say over your future.
Founded by local developer John Kenel in 2004, Assured Property builds practical, well-located homes in the Waikato for homebuyers and long-term investors.
John’s goal is simple: help more people own their own homes and build a life that can’t easily be pushed around. That’s why we’re also working with Bridge Housing, a charitable trust, to create pathways from renting to owning.
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Latest from John
Housing, property, money, and what’s happening in New Zealand.
Where Is NZ Property Headed? A Straight Talk With Squirrel's John Bolton
John Kenel sits down with John Bolton, founder of Squirrel. Squirrel is New Zealand's largest mortgage broker, writing around $3 billion of mortgages a year, and one of the country's biggest non-bank construction lenders with $700-800 million in development finance.
Between them they see the market from both sides: the buyers and the builders. This is a straight-up look at what's really happening right now.
They cover:
- Why buyer confidence is still uneven
- Why yield now matters more than easy capital gains
- The product mistakes developers keep making (and why storage matters more than people think)
- Downsizers, the overlooked opportunity
- What's happening to margins on real projects
- Why this painful part of the cycle may be clearing the way for the next one
Whether you're buying, investing or developing, it's well worth a listen.
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Waikato Financial Literacy Fund
John and Nicola Kenel established the Waikato Financial Literacy Fund with Momentum Waikato, supported by Assured Property Investments.
The fund helps people, especially young people, learn practical skills for managing money. It supports financial education covering budgeting, saving, understanding debt and planning ahead, helping people build good habits and work towards a more secure future.
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