Regional Growth In the December 2018 quarter, Hamilton’s economy and employment grew close to 3%, with the council announcing a $2 billion injection into infrastructure to ensure this growth is sustainable. Towards the end of last year, the government also announced a $17 billion investment for the region that included funding for the Waikato Expressway…

For years people have asked me, as a financial advisor and co-director of Erskine + Owen, if I thought a capital gains tax would come in at any point. I’ve always said it’s possible, but it would have zero to minimal impact on house prices, certainly in the medium to long term. Here we are…