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Feb 16, 2024

Is 2024 Starting To Turn The Corner?

Say goodbye to 2023, which according to many commentators had the worst commercial sales in nearly 30 years. Buyers were nervous with the cost of living and rising inflation, with high interest rat

Dec 4, 2023

Market Update: December 2023

It’s no secret. Kerikeri and the Far North are on track to experience one of the lowest volumes of open market real estate sales in a calendar year for 20 years. Average timeframes to sell have quadru

Nov 24, 2023

Gearing Ratios

Apologies to the motorheads out there, but this is the financial ratio used to compare the owner’s equity (capital) or asset values to the debt borrowed. The debt-to-equity ratio is a cru

Oct 16, 2023

Valuing Your Business

A true value is that agreed between a willing buyer and seller. A different buyer and seller with the same product may agree a differing value. Particularly in the SME (Smal Medium Enterprise) area

Sep 22, 2023

Market Update: September 2023

Auckland’s housing market is turning in time for the traditionally busy spring season, with prices climbing in seventy-six suburbs in the past three months. City prices spent more than a year tumbling

Sep 13, 2023

What is Yield?

The dictionary defines yield as “something that is gained in return from an input of goods or services”. From a property perspective yield is the value of the net rental income divided by the curre

Aug 21, 2023

Commercial Property Investing

Confused about the terms you see and hear and what do they mean and are they relevant to you? Whether you are looking from a purely investment point of view or are a business owner wanting your own

Aug 16, 2023

Have you had your say?

FNDC has called for further submissions to the PDP, with the submission period closing on 4 September. Submissions are your opportunity to provide comments to Council as they refine the District Plans