Posts by Glenn Pearce
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Hard News: Housing: the Feudal Model, in reply to
But they're actually at lower levels at the moment than Feb, we haven't heard the stories of people queuing outside rentals for a few years now.
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Hard News: Housing: the Feudal Model, in reply to
My understanding of the Auckland market is that we have a housing "affordability" crisis but not an "availability" crisis.
In Auckland rental listings are at an all time seasonal high at the moment with rental prices fairly static while house prices skyrocket.
In Christchurch and Wellington the 2 variables (rent and price) are tracking almost in alignment as common sense would suggest. (supply and demand)
There's something weird about the Auckland market.
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Hard News: Housing: the Feudal Model, in reply to
The US model of funding schools from property taxes is flawed, large funding differences occur between wealthy and impoverished communities, between States and within States.
We don't want to go down that road.
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Russell, there is an App for this of course ;-) Haven't tried it myself.
https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/white-noise-lite-relax.-sleep./id292987597?mt=8
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Hard News: The Future of Television, in reply to
Was it Akio Morita (Sony) who said something about never do Market Research, just observe people's behaviour.
Those useless Market Research questions "Would you consider xyz.."
Of course I'd consider it, would I actually hand over my hard earned $$$ for it, maybe not.
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Legal Beagle: Fact check: Q+A on mayoral…, in reply to
In the case of Mayor, the position cannot remain unfilled so the council must nominate a replacement from it's ranks until such time as the by-election can be arranged.