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Inflation drops, borrowers take a gamble: Here’s what moved the housing market this week

April 20, 2024
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Inflation drops, borrowers take a gamble: Here’s what moved the housing market this week
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Agents are seeing activity among a range of buyer groups, with first-home buyers and owner occupiers being the most active.
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Analysis – Inflation drops, borrowers take a gamble on one-year mortgage rates, and pet-owning renters are thrown a bone. Here’s what moved real estate this week.

Activity in the housing market is picking up, with increasing stock levels giving buyers more choice.

The Real Estate Institute’s (REINZ) house price index, which measures the changing value of properties, fell 1.2 percent in March over February, led down by 1.9 percent price drop in the Auckland region.

The national median price rose 2.7 percent to $800,000 from $779,000 the year earlier.

REINZ chief executive Jen Baird said March market activity had been boosted by a 23 percent increase in the number of listings.

“Growing numbers of buyers are acting now,” she said.

Agents were seeing activity among a range of buyer groups, with first-home buyers and owner occupiers being the most active, she said.

They were optimistic that market activity would continue to pick up into the cooler months.

Inflation

Annual inflation has slowed to a near three-year low despite a slight quickening in the first quarter of the year.

Stats NZ said the consumer price index rose 0.6 percent – driven by higher rents, rates, insurance and alcohol and tobacco, which offset cheaper petrol and international airfares.

The annual rate eased to 4 percent from 4.7 percent – the lowest since June 2021.

The RBNZ has said it was confident inflation would be back in its target 1 to 3 percent band by the end of 2024, but repeated that interest rates would stay high until it was certain that was happening.

The RBNZ’s last monetary policy statement in February hinted at rate cuts possibly starting as late as June 2025, while financial markets have scaled their bets to November 2024.

Read more: Why the latest inflation figures aren’t all good news

Interest rates, economic growth

Local borrowers have been trying to second-guess when the RBNZ will start cutting interest rates by moving to shorter-term mortgages, even though it will cost them more.

Property research firm CoreLogic said 56 percent of new loans in February were fixed for one year compared to 36 percent in December with borrowers guessing rates have peaked.

The property sector was set to remain sluggish going well into next year, CoreLogic chief economist Kelvin Davidson said.

Meanwhile, households and businesses would need to watch spending until mid-2025, Infometrics chief forecaster Gareth Kiernan said.

“Between then and 2027, lower interest rates, less contractionary fiscal policy and the improving world economy will all contribute to an acceleration in economic growth back towards 3 percent per annum,” he said.

Infometrics forecast annual inflation to drop below 3 percent by early 2025, which would give the Reserve Bank confidence to begin cutting the official cash rate in November from 5.5 percent to a neutral rate of 4 percent by the end of 2025.

Pet bonds

The government has announced a pet bond regime will be in place by the end of next year.

Housing Minister Chris Bishop said he expected landlords would use good faith when negotiating pet bonds with their tenants.

The bond would be capped at two weeks’ rent, tenants would be liable for any damage beyond fair wear and tear, and landlords could withhold consent on reasonable grounds.

“Reasonable grounds” for refusal was context-specific, Bishop said, but would ultimately be established by legal precedent in the Tenancy Tribunal.

However, Renters United spokesperson Luke Somervell said it would not do much for tenants.

“Pet bond changes don’t offer more security for renters; in fact, they open the door for landlords to pad their wallets at renters’ expense.”

He said landlords could still evict tenants whenever they wanted, with the return of no-cause terminations.

However, New Zealand Property Investors Federation vice-president Peter Lewis welcomed the move and told Morning Report pets increased the risk of damage for a landlord.

People were happier when they lived with their pets, and landlords wanted happy tenants, so anything that made the process easier was a good thing, he said.

KiwiBuild projects delayed

Kāinga Ora stopped releasing the outcome of any new KiwiBuild developments after the commencement of the government’s independent review of the housing provider.

In December, the coalition government announced the probe chaired by former prime minister Sir Bill English.

Select committee documents showed Kāinga Ora made the decision to delay some work programmes such as KiwiBuild following the review.

Meanwhile, funding for support services designed to help people out of emergency housing is due to expire in two months – and the government will not commit to extending it.

That is despite its recently announced target to reduce the number of households in emergency housing – currently about 800 – by 75 percent in the next six years.

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