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Auckland Accountants, Thorne Accounting Offers Recommendations On Chattels Valuations • We are Auckland Accountants that recommend a chattels valuation for every residential rental property • In November 2011, the IRD released an updated list of residential rental property chattels that [...]

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Transferring money From or To New Zealand?? Read on how to Minimize Risk with foreign money rates when doing an Overseas funds transfer and using different currencies. The Property Investors Network has members from around the Globe, you can find [...]

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The best retirement plan ever

By: LisaDudson | 2012 February 12

From the London Times: A Well-Planned Retirement. A perfect example of government mismanagement. Outside England’s Bristol Zoo there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 buses. For 25 years, its parking fees where managed by a very pleasant [...]

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Making new year resolutions that actually work Goal Setting After having some time off over xmas many of us start thinking about what we want to achieve over the coming year. However as the year moves on our new years [...]

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Conversion of Cross Lease Title to Fee Simple Title

By: Andre Conradie - RPC Land Surveyors | 2012 February 12

Background: Cross Lease and Fee Simple Titles Cross leases were a popular form of “subdivision” going as far back as the late 1960’s. In the earlier cross leases there was often no distinction made between common areas and exclusive covenant [...]

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Last week I was speaking with the head of lending for Westpac, and I asked him ” if you had one wish (in regards to lending) what would it be? Without a moments hesitate he came back to me and [...]

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New property law means restrictions on building work

By: Milke Toepfer Aspiring Law | 2012 February 12

A new property law will come into effect soon which means that certain building work can only be designed or carried out by a licensed person. The new law affects residential buildings or small to medium sized apartment buildings (generally, [...]

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Ports of Auckland expansion plan raises bigger questions

By: MarkBenjaminTNP | 2012 February 12

The recent flurry of media attention regarding the potential expansion of the Auckland Port raises some interesting issues around upper North Island long term development planning. As part of the Auckland Spatial, Waterfront and Unitary Plan processes (which our last [...]

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Registered Property Valuers How can we help

By: Property InDepth - Rene McLean | 2012 February 10

Property Indepth – Your Local Registered Property Valuers : What is happening in the market and how can we help? Hope everyone has had a great Waitangi day and is ready for some gruelling 5 day working weeks now that [...]

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The Year Ahead for Commercial Property Investment

By: McMahon Commercial Ltd | 2012 February 10

As we move into 2012, the prevailing sentiment as far as the Commercial Property sector goes, is that we are starting to enter into recovery mode. We have definitely reached the bottom of the Commercial Property Cycle and are starting [...]

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