Here is a collection of Property and Investment articles we think are of interest
- Billionaire Donald Trump supporter Peter Thiel sending more of his mates our way - January 2017
- New Zealand wins best country in the world for the fourth year in a row - April 2016
- Extraordinary high country landscape to be protected forever
Today in Arrowtown, Queen Elizabeth II National Trust and Soho Property Limited announced New Zealand's largest private land protection agreement ever. - November 2014 - Experience the Best of New Zealand, American Investor Invitation - October 2014
The government is committed to supporting the growth of New Zealand and is actively seeking investors. There is being held a series of intimate, exclusive events in San Francisco, New York and Chicago in late October 2014. If you have contacts who you think are interested in the the NZ opportunity, pass on this invite to reserve an invitation.
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- View and share the New York invite - Who is an "Associate" of an Overseas Person?
It is not only overseas persons but also their New Zealand associates who need to have consent to buy sensitive land in New Zealand. - August 2014 - Overseas Investment: Analysis of Transactions
KPMG has carried out analysis of Overseas Investment Office consents granted during the period July 2010 to December 2012. - February 2014 - Farm sales up, confidence strong
The number of farm sales rose by more than 20 per cent last year, reflecting strong confidence in the rural sector, the Real Estate Institute says. - January 2014 - Craigmore buys three farms
Local speculation surrounding the recent sale of three substantial dairy farms near Oamaru can finally be confirmed now that approval from the Overseas Investment Office (OIO) has been given. - January 2014 - Healthy Spring Market Reflects Positive Rural Economy
Data released today by the Real Estate Institute of NZ ("REINZ") shows there were 133 more farm sales (+47.3%) for the three months ended November 2013 than for the three months ended November 2012. - December 2013 - New trade deal and primary exports supercharge economy
A day after major tariff cuts came into effect between New Zealand and Chinese Taipei, Statistics New Zealand has confirmed New Zealand's terms of trade are at their highest levels since 1973, the year Britain joined the European Union. - December 2013 - Farms in SI headed for hot prices
The South Canterbury's rural property market could set records this summer. - December 2013 - Prestigious station expected to set farm property record
One of New Zealand's biggest and most valuable farms is up for sale. - December 2013 - Putting New Zealand meat on Chinese tables
Xibin Chen is China's biggest importer of New Zealand lamb. Last year he took more than $140 million or 30,000 tonnes of New Zealand meat to China. - December 2013 - Synlait takeover decision for two ministers
The Chinese bid to buy 13 Canterbury dairy farms owned by Synlait Farms will be decided by two ministers. - November 2013 - NZ dairy leader sells farm for $25m to Italians
Dairy leader Willy Leferink and his wife are satisfied the Italian family who bought their Rakaia dairy farm through the Overseas Investment Office process for $25.1 million have the "right intentions". - November 2013 - Key Notes: Supporting growth and investment
Last week, I gave a speech in Wellington where I talked about the National-led Government's plan to encourage more growth and higher-paying jobs. - November 2013 - OCR unchanged at 2.5 percent
The Reserve Bank today left the Official Cash Rate (OCR) unchanged at 2.5 percent. Reserve Bank Governor Graeme Wheeler said: "The recovery in the United States and other major advanced economies remains patchy. Nevertheless, world prices for New Zealand's export commodities are very high. - October 2013 - Deer farmers head to hills but profit up
While deer farming has been pushed off most of Canterbury Plain and into the hills by dairy farming, it is now the most profitable form of dry stock farming, says Deer Industry New Zealand chairman Andy Macfarlane. - October 2013 - High Country Merinos and Biodiversity
This fact sheet covers the impacts of high country farming on native biodiversity - October 2013 - Overseas Investment Act 2005
A brief update on latest developments - September 2013 - Technical Resources
The Overseas Investment Office (OIO) publishes the following resources to help interpret the legislation and to outline the OIO's approach. You can also find forms, templates and diagrams. - September 2013 - US investors snap up large Canterbury farm
A farm the size of Christchurch has been sold to a North American investment group for an undisclosed sum. - September 2013 - James Cameron continues NZ buying spree
Hollywood filmmaker James Cameron is buying another large Wairarapa property. - July 2013 - Housing ban may breach trade agreements
Labour's proposal to restrict foreigners buying New Zealand property could clash with the country's free trade agreements, including its multibillion-dollar arrangement with China, an expert says. - July 2013 - Cameron's home away from home
Movie mogul James Cameron has continued to snap up land in Wairarapa, adding a further three properties to his growing Kiwi empire. - December 2012 - New Zealand may quit Kyoto
New Zealand has been tipped to quit the Kyoto Protocol, designed to cut global emissions. - November 2012 - BNZ sees kiwi above US85c
The kiwi dollar could break through 85c in the next few weeks, says Bank of New Zealand chief economist Tony Alexander. - November 2012 - ANZ Insight - Greener Pastures:
The Global Soft Commodity Opportunity for Australia and New Zealand. - Issue 3, October 2012 - Maori land sold for golf course
A Northland hapu has sold a swathe of beachfront Northland land to a multi-millionaire Los Angeles fund manager who plans to build a championship golf course on the area. - October 2012 - Govt signals export sector shake-up
The Government is signalling radical changes ahead aimed at boosting exports' share of the economy from 30 per cent to 40 per cent over the next 13 years as part of a six-part "business growth agenda". - August 2012 - Investors show appetite for Christchurch plan
Developers and property investors from outside Christchurch are sizing up opportunities flowing from the CBD blueprint, but it is too early to tell the level of investment that will flow in to help repair the crunched city. - August 2012 - Govt mum on Christchurch rebuild land costs
The Government will not say how much it will cost to buy the Christchurch land required for the new city centre. - July 2012 - Harvard's Kiwi buy-up beyond academic
Forget movie mogul James Cameron or China's Shanghai Pinxin, America's Harvard University is among the largest foreign-owned landholders in New Zealand. - July 2012 - NZ Wine Co confirms Foley merger plan
The struggling New Zealand Wine Company (NZWC) has confirmed it plans to merge with American-owned Foley Family Wines New Zealand subject to shareholder and Overseas Investment Office approval. - June 2012 - Chinese buyer for Gulf Harbour
Allied Farmers and Bank of Scotland International look set to take a $121 million loss on the sale of the Gulf Harbour development north of Auckland when it is sold to interests associated with Jiang Zhaobai, the Chinese tycoon behind the company buying the Crafar farms. - June 2012 - New owner for Terrace Downs
Wealthy Japanese investor Hiroshi Hasegawa has been given the go-ahead by the Overseas Investment Office to buy the company that owns luxury golf resort Terrace Downs in Mid Canterbury. - May 2012 - Incentives for foreign rebuild funds mooted
Government incentives to help attract offshore investment into the Christchurch rebuild is just one idea put forward by business leaders who say outside interest in capital projects for the city is growing. - May 2012 - CraFarm decision a small part of much bigger picture
Using Overseas Investment Office (OIO) figures provided under the Official Information Act, Federated Farmers has found urban expansion and carbon forestry potentially pose bigger threats to agriculture than the sale of the former CraFarms to Shanghai Pengxin. - April 2012 - James Cameron Buys More Wairarapa Land
The Film giant James Cameron is adding to his Wairarapa property portfolio after being given consent to buy a small lifestyle block next to land he bought earlier this year. - March 2012 - Reserve Bank Leaves Interest Rates on Hold
The Reserve Bank is signalling the first interest rate hike around the end of this year, but after that there may be just one rise a year, according to Westpac Bank economists. - March 2012 - Roll on 2050 - New Zealand economy to rise
In the world of 2050, New Zealand will have economic bragging rights over the rest of the developed world. - February 2012 - Crafar farms sale to Chinese group approved
Demand for rural properties is increasing steadily, with the market reaching its most buoyant level in four years - January 2012 - Buoyancy returning to rural property market
Demand for rural properties is increasing steadily, with the market reaching its most buoyant level in four years - January 2012 - Effluent to become commodity
Cow effluent might go from an environmental headache for dairy farmers to become a tradeable commodity. - January 2012 - Farming 2011: A year to celebrate - despite the sorrow
It's not often the planets line up to form a near-perfect farming year. - December 2011 - High returns for sheep and beef picked to continue
Sheep and beef farmers have been told they can look forward to another high-earnings year, after pre-tax profit jumped 75 per cent in the past year as lamb and wool remains in demand in key markets. - September 2011 - Wool, dairy prices boost NZ export returns
Strong dairy prices and rocketing wool prices helped lift the terms of trade to a 37-year high in the June quarter. - September 2011 - Repeal of gift duty significant win for Federated Farmers
After extensive lobbying by Federated Farmers, parliament passed the Taxation (Tax Administration and Remedial Matters) Bill on 17 August. - August 2011 - Sheep, beef export earnings up 9 per cent
Export earnings for New Zealand sheep and beef totalled $5.8 billion last year - an increase of 9 per cent, according to Beef + Lamb New Zealand. - August 2011 - Farm prices at lowest since September 2003
Farm prices continue to head downward, according to figures released today by the Real Estate Institute. - August 2011 - China says it is 'not a threat'
The Chinese Government has launched a "green tea" offensive through western media, including a rare invitation to a press conference at the local embassy. - August 2011 - No change in Reserve Bank's Official Cash Rate
The Reserve Bank has left the OCR unchanged at 2.5 per cent as expected but has made it clear the March ''insurance'' cut will be removed soon. - July 2011 - Walking Access in New Zealand - July 2010
- Kiwi loiters near 30-year highs
The New Zealand dollar traded in a narrow range between US86.40c and US86.55c through the afternoon, loitering near the 30-year highs it scaled on Friday, when it hit another new post-float high against the greenback at US86.76c. - July 2011 - Landcorp embarks on new $23m venture
Landcorp national business manager Allan Still stands in mud-encrusted gumboots in a paddock of the Government farming company's latest acquisition and looks around him. - July 2011 - Good prospects ahead for farming
The prospect of a resurgent world economy has encouraged the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry to take a more optimistic view of New Zealand farming's prospects. - June 2011 - Sheep farmers enjoy best prices for decades
If you're driving through the hill country this week, keep an eye out for gumbooted fools deliriously cavorting about.
They are sheep farmers enjoying a sudden upturn in incomes not experienced for half a century. - June 2011 - Kiwi rises on reports of China buying bonds
The New Zealand dollar rose to its highest level against the greenback in just over three years after a report claimed China's sovereign wealth fund may be looking to boost is purchase of local assets. - May 2011 - Fonterra payout gamechanger for the economy
A "humdinger" of a new dairy season payout forecast from industry giant Fonterra should prove a gamechanger for the economy, says leading economist Cameron Bagrie. - May 2011 - Water marks New Zealand as the real 'lucky country'
Federated Farmers is hailing the significant announcement today on both water storage and on policy as moves that will cement New Zealand as the real 'lucky country'. - May 2011 - Dollar falls from 3-year high
The New Zealand dollar slipped from its highest level since March 2008 as a dip in commodities and equities saw demand for growth-linked currencies fall. - April 2011 - Germans pour cash into farms
Four German investment groups have won approval to invest in 10 dairy farms in Southland and Canterbury with a combined value of $109.7 million. - February 2011 - Food is the new black as commodities rise
While appreciating commodity prices will be positive for the New Zealand economy, it is only part of the cost equation for goods for all farmers, whether you're producing cheese or lamb. - February 2011 - Fall in land approved for sale to buyers from overseas
The global recession is thought to be the main factor in a significant drop in New Zealand land being approved for sale to foreign buyers. - January 2011 - Minister of Finance's directive letter to OIO - December 2010
- Directive letter sets balanced investment rules
A new directive letter to the Overseas Investment Office provides extra clarity and certainty for potential investors about the Government's general approach to foreign investment in sensitive assets, Finance Minister Bill English says. - December 2010 - Overseas Investment in New Zealand
I want to take this opportunity to outline the Government's position on overseas investment and talk about the changes we are making to the approvals regime. - November 2010 - Is foreign ownership of land so bad?
Those opposed to foreign investment and ownership of New Zealand land, assets and businesses need to think carefully about why they do so, writes STEPHEN HICKSON - October 2010 - Land grab or boost for New Zealand?
Each week, on average, 591 hectares of New Zealand land is being snapped up by foreign investors. - October 2010 - No evidence of high foreign interests in farming
There is no evidence of a high level of foreign investment in the agricultural sector, KPMG said in a report. - August 2010 - No country for farmers?
20 percent of New Zealand's sheep and beef farms could be replaced by oxymoronic 'carbon forestry', if the ambitions of foreign owned carbon foresters and the Government are realised. - July 2010 - Christmas in July
Enjoy the Gifts that Keep on Giving When You Invest ‘Down Under’ - July 2010