In February I provided a 1 month update for the solar panels. Of course, was looking like a great a great decision. It was the sunniest month of the year after all.
Now we have an extra half years data, including the worst of winter. How did we fare? Is it still worth it? Are we regretting the decision?
Stay tuned to find an answer to all these questions!
I’ve had a few clients recently wonder about how much mortgage rates will need to be at a future point in time to make up for taking a higher short term mortgage rate now.
The thinking is that the general populace believe mortgage rates are going down in the next year, so many people are considering fixing for […..]
Since affordability of housing is such a hot topic at the moment, we will provide an up to date analysis of house prices today, also relative to the past.
Median house prices nationwide are $790,000 currently. That is an increase of just $10,000 since 2021. An increase of just 0.5% per year for the last three years.
So what is […..]
As part of our new build house we are in the middle of having completed, we were weighing up the decision to get solar panels or not.
At the beginning I was excited about the prospect of starting a building from scratch in our expected long term location. It seemed the ideal time to install solar panels […..]
Kernel came out with an article over the weekend that renters could be $600,000 better off in retirement than homeowners.
This definitely piqued my interest.
I have […..]
A common refrain cropping up in discourse today is that the housing market is too big to fail. That the government won’t let house prices fall. These feelings have only been exacerbated by the reserve bank’s recent announcement that it will roll out a funding for lending programme, where it will lend up to $28 million to banks at the […..]
