Category: First Time Buyer

Courtyard bonus for first-time buyers

Restricting house-hunting to smaller properties is one of the financial realities facing many first-time buyers. Most of us must work towards family-sized homes with spacious gardens over a decade or two. If you’re a new buyer who loves entertaining outside, don’t despair. You’ll find many small properties with courtyards that have fantastic potential. Assessing small…
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Tips for furnishing your first home

With all the excitement of purchasing your first property, you can be excused for feeling a little intimidated by the prospect of furnishing it to complete your dream of home ownership. Naturally, you want everything to be perfect.  Whether an apartment or house, this is your sanctuary. It’s where you’ll find respite from the pressures…
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Rentvesting your way to home ownership

Saving for a deposit for your first home requires discipline and can be hard work, especially when the market dynamics are influenced by interest rate movements or growing values in your target suburbs. But don’t let frustration signal the end of the road for your ownership ambitions. As an experienced agency, we believe you can…
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Eight myths about buying your first home

Buying your first home can be a confusing experience.  You’ll receive so much advice from family and friends, all of it well-meaning no doubt, that you’d be forgiven for hesitating about any decision. Finding an agent who knows the local market, along with a great mortgage broker, is invaluable and can relieve much of the…
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Feeling frustrated? Change your strategy to become a ‘rentvestor’

Saving for a deposit for your first home requires discipline and can be hard work, especially when the market dynamics are influenced by interest rate movements or growing values in your target suburbs. But don’t let frustration signal the end of the road for your ownership ambitions. As an experienced agency, we believe you can…
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Seven money tips to help first-time buyers right now

First-time buyers will have been watching trends in property values and mortgage rates with increasing interest over the past few months, keen to understand the optimal time to enter the market. As an experienced agency, we understand that it’s a challenging time for first time buyers. The nation’s inflation is stubbornly high, causing the Reserve…
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Economists upbeat on NZ property

When you begin hearing optimism about our property market from generally conservative institutions such as the Bank of New Zealand, you can be confident that light is finally entering  the real estate tunnel. BNZ has been unerringly accurate in its forecast for property values and consistent in its prediction the market will turn around in…
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Six mortgage tips as lenders offer tempting terms

If you’re in the market to upgrade your home as your family grows or a first-time buyer, you’ve probably been watching the deals hitting the market in recent weeks. And let’s face it, it’s been hard to miss the 1% downpayment deals offered by folks from United Wholesale Mortgage and the country’s biggest lender, Rocket…
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Eight top tips for renovating

If something doesn’t feel right or is not what you wanted, say something. If you don’t, the problem is on you, and you’ll be unhappy aboFinding a fixer-upper or property that needs a little TLC may be a practical and lower-cost entry into the real estate market for first-home buyers. But, securing the property is…
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Avoid common decorating mistakes

Buying your first property is an unforgettable experience, and it’s one of the most important decisions you’ll make to set yourself on the path of wealth creation. And if you’ve achieved this goal during the current economic times, you’ve done incredibly well so congratulations! Owning a first home can also be unforgettable if you’ve never…
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