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Are we seeing the spring bounce?

Savings jar for a house deposit beside a wooden house model

Deposits: the current landscape

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KiwiBuild reset finally drops, but leaves many underwhelmed, as do spring sales volumes.

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Spring clean your finances and be ready to buy!

Low cost housing

Wet finish to winter dampens NZ sales volumes

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There’s more to a good loan than a great rate!

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Selling this spring?

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Market update, OCR Cut

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Shock OCR pumps more life into mortgage wars and squeezes savers

New shoot breaks through the soil and reaches for the sun

Low interest rates feeding green shoots against a backdrop of uncertainty

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Sales volumes catch a winter chill and inflation puts pressure on renters

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Warning for first time buyers! Don’t bid until you’ve done these three things

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No two lenders are the same when it comes to new builds

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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it's a pre-approval!

Happy young couple shaking hands with their mortgage adviser celebrating the purchase of their first home

First home buyers continue to make inroads

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