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From FOMO To Fear Of Overpaying To SOS?

The perfect storm is here. It began late last year and now buyers and sellers are battening down the hatches.  In the last six months, housing market sentiment has switched from FOMO (fear of missing out) to FOOP (fear of...

Play The Long Game As A Landlord

There have always been two distinct housing markets: buying a house to live in and buying one to rent out. If you took the daily headlines at face value, you’d think there couldn’t be a worse time to buy an investment...

Interest Rates And A Slowing Housing Market

Futurist marketing consultant Faith Popcorn once said, “you can trust a crystal ball as far as you can throw it.” And as Laurence Peter, who formulated the Peter Principle of management, famously quipped: “An economist is an expert...

Will Inflation Raise Or Deflate House Buyers’ Hopes?

“The era of lower-for-longer interest rates is at its end. Inflationary forces are here to stay, forcing up interest rates.” That was NBR’s take on what lies ahead even before the Reserve Bank reviewed the OCR on 18 August. At the...