Before I forget there was a follow up article. With certain details lacking some reading between the lines is required, my own inferences based on what is presented rather than what may have occurred. Notably the article appears to muddy the waters by presenting ’reverse racism’ as an issue:

Another…

which is not to say I can’t elaborate on the above…

As an update to the state of race relations under the current "if anyone felt that it was racist" Labour led Government, my wife was given the "Chinese eyes"…

Sources:

Amount spent on houses-
The value of new housing stock which is not part of the previous property cycle of buying and selling. Via data from Aaron Schiff @aschiff on Twitter in early August

Amount borrowed to spend on houses-
Reserve bank's records of monthly amounts of…

Basically...
home ownership flattens off from 45 in Auckland (first lot of graphs).

In the third lot of graphs, after about 45ish people in Auckland in…

In 2013, 49.8 percent of people aged 15 years and over owned or partly owned the home they lived in, compared with 53.2 percent in 2006.

Less than 20% of twentysomethings own their own home;…

It is a very time specific relationship. If you assume most house purchases had a 25% deposit, you can look at the quarterly amounts that were loaned in mortgages, the red line in this graph is…

It depends on whether the foreign investment is greenfields (build something new) or brownfields (buying up existing property). IIRC there's no ban…

Exactly. Had the "yellow peril" card not been played, clampdowns on non-resident house buyers would have been an otherwise justifiable capital controls measure. On the other extreme, the effective…

"If anyone felt that it was [racist], then of course we would apologise for that. But that was…

I think pretty much everyone can get blinded if their analysis shows them what they…

Also, if Labour wanted to tackle rentierism, doing so without looking at non-immigrant citizens would be a pointless waste of time.

That said, I'm all for limits on non-resident land purchases. And for not conferring citizenship…

That foreign investment has helped create the social environment where apartment living is seen as good lifestyle choice and has also driven…

David Hood had a good go at telling that story here (with the graph above), drawing on data to show a divergence between the rise in NZ house values…

Newspapers have been printing politicians’ lies since the year dot so the author’s statements smack of faux outrage.

It's interesting to think about the planning that must go into trying to sketch out a vision for Auckland's development over the next fifty years.

Around 40% of New Zealanders don't own their own home. That's about two million people. National made a very deliberate decision to preserve the status quo on housing and it…

I somehow missed that fact the first time around (if it was made clear then) – I was sufficiently disgusted that he was so quick to…

I have in fact repeatedly made that very point to people who object…

The recent movements in our housing market are a matter…

Free hint: anything which…