Your Expert Team
Case Study: Convert a laundry to a bedroom in Christchurch
Barry and Carolyn worked with us to hunt down a property with quick value-add potential in Christchurch. They bought outside their home town and what's more, were travelling during the due diligence and close period! Read More…
Christchurch Property Market Update
Maxine gives an update on where she sees the Christchurch property investment market at the mid-2018 mark. Read More…
Case Study: Add bedrooms to increase yield and value
How a Wellington-based investor secured a property the entire market had missed - literally, it had been on sale for a year - and stands to make a fortune in doing so. Read More…
Case Study: Invest from Australia
How a full time health professional working in Australia was able to assemble the RIGHT team and secure a good buy and hold investment property in Wellington. Read More…
Ring Fencing Losses - A Scenario & Some Thoughts
The government is changing the rules! Yes well they do that from time to time and now is when you should slow down and think about what is really going to happen.
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Update on the Overseas Investment Amendment Bill
An update on the overseas investment amendment as of Jan 2018. Read More…
Reducing Depreciation Recovery
Quite a few property investors are thinking about selling. Should you just accept that you will have to recover all the building depreciation you have previously claimed? ……… NO Read More…
Case Study: How an expat in Qatar bought his first property
No more excuses! This investor worked with iFindProperty step by step over several months to discuss how property works, get lending approval, put a team together and work out his critieria and finally secure a property... from the other side of the world. Read More…
Pros, cons and risks of short term rentals
We invited an investor, insurance advisor and property tax specialist to a round table discussion of strategies, pros, cons potential pitfalls when planning or running a short term rental investment in New Zealand. Read More…
Take action today to improve your investing
The best time to learn and grow is always right now and it certainly does not matter if you are currently looking to buy or not. In fact, a bit of down time between open homes and evaluating properties can be the perfect opportunity to reflect and study.
Here are some things you can do right now that will provide long term benefits to your investing.
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Mortgage Market Update with Squirrel
iFindProperty spoke with Andrew Mackay and Peter Norris from Squirrel about what is changing in the mortgage market in 2017, particularly for investors. Read More…
A glimpse into what our team assists clients with during the due diligence period of a potential purchase. Just what is required to do your analysis in the time allowed takes a bit of experience and as you can see, there is often more to it than just emailing the contract to your lawyer and bank. Read More…
Part one of a two article series where we look at alternative lenders. We start by asking a couple of simple questions, namely who are the non-bank lenders and what do they do? Read More…
Case Study: Investing from overseas in a hot market
Case study on how an iFindProperty client who is used to personally inspecting every property, leveraged a buyers agent to invest sight-unseen from overseas in one of the hottest Auckland markets in history. Read More…