Property Matters

News from around New Zealand this week, including the local market and the many factors that are influencing lack of affordability. After listening to George Thorogood's "Just can't make it" Greg discusses buying a heritage listed pub in Canterbury and tackling it as a 'Grand Designs' project.

Property Matters is the property show for you.  The audience includes buyers, sellers, landlords, tenants and people interested in general housing advice.  Greg Watson presents the very latest Manawatu market news and commentary.  He analyses, comments on and makes light of real estate news from Manawatu, around New Zealand and overseas.  Every show calls on years of experience and has a section of tips and advice around housing with anything from renovations, to achieving higher sales prices, buyer tips, landlord help and guides for tenants.  To listen to this show on 999am: Tune in on Tuesdays at 1pm (or OnDemand below from 1:15pm.)

In this episode, Greg updates on the state of the market, and the state of lending. Would you buy a former school house to live in? After listening to the Beatles "Here comes the sun", Greg talks about Gunther the 6th, the dog selling a $45 million dollar house in Florida!!

Property Matters is the property show for you.  The audience includes buyers, sellers, landlords, tenants and people interested in general housing advice.  Greg Watson presents the very latest Manawatu market news and commentary.  He analyses, comments on and makes light of real estate news from Manawatu, around New Zealand and overseas.  Every show calls on years of experience and has a section of tips and advice around housing with anything from renovations, to achieving higher sales prices, buyer tips, landlord help and guides for tenants.  To listen to this show on 999am: Tune in on Tuesdays at 1pm (or OnDemand below from 1:15pm.)

In this episode Greg discusses the median house prices in Manawatu/Wanganui and around the country. He talks about first home buyers increasingly getting into the market, discusses changes being made to make it for harder for all buyers, and after listening to Bob Marley and the Wailers 'Three Little Birds' he gives an example of how two people working minimum wage managed to get into the property market. He then talks about the landlord 'hall of shame' and then moves on to the Privacy Commissioners new guidelines for information Landlords can (and can not) ask tenants for.

Property Matters is the property show for you.  The audience includes buyers, sellers, landlords, tenants and people interested in general housing advice.  Greg Watson presents the very latest Manawatu market news and commentary.  He analyses, comments on and makes light of real estate news from Manawatu, around New Zealand and overseas.  Every show calls on years of experience and has a section of tips and advice around housing with anything from renovations, to achieving higher sales prices, buyer tips, landlord help and guides for tenants.  To listen to this show on 999am: Tune in on Tuesdays at 1pm (or OnDemand below from 1:15pm.)

In this episode, Greg recounts multiple 'bad news' stories in the media relating to predictions for the real estate market.

Property Matters is the property show for you.  The audience includes buyers, sellers, landlords, tenants and people interested in general housing advice.  Greg Watson presents the very latest Manawatu market news and commentary.  He analyses, comments on and makes light of real estate news from Manawatu, around New Zealand and overseas.  Every show calls on years of experience and has a section of tips and advice around housing with anything from renovations, to achieving higher sales prices, buyer tips, landlord help and guides for tenants.  To listen to this show on 999am: Tune in on Tuesdays at 1pm (or OnDemand below from 1:15pm.)

In this episode Greg discusses how housing intensification could look in Palmerston North, discusses oPoly a crowdsharing platform for purchasing property. Then after listening to Pet Shop Boy's 'Rent' he looks at rental prices, and has the popular 'bad landlords - bad tenants' segment - including a landlord having to pay almost $39,000 to his tenants.

Property Matters is the property show for you.  The audience includes buyers, sellers, landlords, tenants and people interested in general housing advice.  Greg Watson presents the very latest Manawatu market news and commentary.  He analyses, comments on and makes light of real estate news from Manawatu, around New Zealand and overseas.  Every show calls on years of experience and has a section of tips and advice around housing with anything from renovations, to achieving higher sales prices, buyer tips, landlord help and guides for tenants.  To listen to this show on 999am: Tune in on Tuesdays at 1pm (or OnDemand below from 1:15pm.)