01-04-2010

April '10 Issue

  1. News
  2. 2010
  3. April

Future Auckland hot spots

Housing around a third of the country's population, Auckland offers a plethora of investment opportunities. We take a look at up-and-coming areas to give investors throughout the country the opportunity to tap into future growth in the largest city in New Zealand.

Commercial 101

In part four of our series, Karen Clark looks at how to make a potential deal stack up and what needs to be taken into consideration when doing the number-crunching.

Illegal renovations

This is one topic that many investors would rather ignore than deal with, but we look at why it's important you know what to do if you find yourself owning unpermitted work.

The debt diaries

This three-part series will look at how investors can go about collecting debt owed by tenants. Our first article covers why prevention is better than cure and who can help in checking potential tenants' history.

Profile

Ever considered renovating the kitchen into a bedroom? Oliver Phillips has and it's a renovation strategy that has proven rather lucrative. But wait, there's more to this Christchurch investor's strategy.

Also in the April 2010 issue:

Ask an expert: If a property is under-performing, should you cut your losses or hold on for capital gains and what does PPSR mean?

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