Purpose – Housing affordability in New Zealand is placing significant pressure on the country’s social housing sector with increased demand for public sector accommodation. A common belief suggests that social housing has a negative effect on nearby residential property values. This study...

The protection of heritage buildings is essential because they signpost the narration of a community's past into the future. Investment in the protection of heritage buildings through incentives in the form of government grants provides a lifeline for the future preservation of built heritage,...

Purpose – Decision-making behaviour of property investors has been the focus of real estate research for decades. Yet, there is no consensus on a generally accepted behavioural model that suits all market conditions and investment peculiarities. While scholars have emphasized the significance...

Commuting behaviour has been intensively examined by geographers, urban planners, and transportation researchers, but little is known about how commuting behaviour is spatially linked with the job and housing markets in urban cities. New Zealand has been recognised as one of the countries having...

According to Auckland office leasing agents, the effects of the Christchurch earthquakes have rippled to New Zealand’s largest office market. We conducted face-to-face semi-structured interviews with property professionals representing five large real estate firms to explore the impact...

Purpose – This paper aims to evaluate the impact of submarkets on water view premiums of residential properties and investigate the correlation between submarket view premium and socio‐economic status. Design/methodology/approach – Over 53,000 residential sales transactions from 2004 to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the changes in commercial office occupiers’ preferences in their building choice as a result of a recent natural disaster which triggered policy changes in building safety. Design/methodology/approach – This study follows a qualitative...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, the study aims to test whether expectations are adaptive in the Auckland housing market. The second purpose is to examine the interplay between expectations and Auckland housing prices. Design/methodology/approach: In this study, two vector...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine housing speculation in Auckland, New Zealand, the second most unaffordable market in the world. Design/methodology/approach: The study considers rental property purchases from 2002 to 2016 within the Auckland region. The authors apply a simple...