Tag: advocacy

Shovel-ready projects update

Over the past few months, the Government has slowly announced a stream of ‘shovel ready projects’. On 18 August the Infrastructure Industry Reference Group published the current list in full. […]

What is Build-to-Rent?

New Zealand is facing a housing crisis, with a shortage of rental stock having a serious impact on the price, quality and availability of rental properties. Enter Build-to-Rent (or BTR […]

National Policy Statement on Urban Development released

This afternoon’s release of the National Policy Statement on Urban Development (NPS-UD) is a step in the right direction, with the Government adopting many of Property Council’s recommendations submitted during […]

Rent payments during lockdown

As New Zealand heads into Alert Level 4 landlords and tenants will be looking at their leases to work out what happens to rent payments over the lockdown period. During […]

The rent subsidy proposal that wasn’t to be

Far and away the number one question we have been asked of late has been “what did Property Council propose to government in terms of a rent subsidy”. Prior to […]

OPINION: Why infrastructure is important to your business

Commercial property and development only works if good infrastructure supports it.  Infrastructure is needed to bring people to and from home, work, shop and provide the utilities essential to business […]