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NZ Property Market Is Near the Bottom: What Happens Next?
20 July 2026

NZ Property Market Is Near the Bottom: What Happens Next?

The John Kenel Show

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John Kenel sits down with John Bolton from Squirrel, New Zealand’s biggest mortgage broker.


 


What’s getting funded, what’s getting declined, and why?


 


They discuss the OCR at 2.5%, the water companies that are now a bigger development risk than councils, why 41% of apartment sellers lost money last quarter, Australia’s negative-gearing changes, and how AI is starting to change the property industry.


 


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