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Careful reads on New Zealand property data.
The NZ Property Market Podcast tracks New Zealand residential property through fresh data rather than hot takes. It links house values, buyer classifications, lending rules, interest rates, and global uncertainty to the choices facing buyers, investors, and movers.
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The NZ Property Market Podcast is built around close reading of New Zealand residential property data. Its centre of gravity is not speculation, but interpretation. Nick Goodall and Kelvin Davidson take releases such as the Home Value Index, Reserve Bank lending figures, affordability reports, chart packs, buyer classification data, and OCR statements, then ask what they might mean once the caveats are included. A small rise in values is not treated as a boom. It is a possible signal, checked against regional breadth, confidence, interest rates, sales activity, and the risk that next month could reverse it. That restraint gives the show its character. It talks about the market as something people have to make decisions inside, not as a scoreboard. First-time buyers appear often, especially around low-deposit lending allowances, affordability resets, and the gap between renting pressure and buying capacity. Investors are discussed with the same balance, with attention to softer rents, council rates, insurance, credit rules, and the absence or presence of real financial stress. The show also spends time on mortgage arrears, mortgagee sales, refinancing spikes, and the ways households prioritise keeping loans paid even when values have fallen. Wider economics is never far away. GDP, unemployment, migration, spare capacity, CPI inflation, fuel costs, shipping costs, and the Reserve Bank's patience all feed into the property outlook. Global uncertainty, including energy-market pressure and geopolitical conflict, is handled in sober terms because the links to inflation, growth, and confidence are indirect but important. The format is usually a working conversation between two market analysts, with occasional guest editions that widen the lens. Gerard Berg brings an Australia and global macroeconomics comparison. Nicole Ferguson's International Women's Day episode shifts toward leadership, curiosity, and finance-sector experience while still sitting inside the broader property ecosystem. The show's strength is its willingness to move slowly through the evidence, test one number against another, and land on practical implications without pretending the market is simple.
Made for: Designed for people who follow New Zealand housing through data: buyers, mortgage holders, investors, property professionals, brokers, and market watchers. It suits listeners who want context around rates, credit, affordability, and buyer behaviour without hype.
What sets it apart: Its edge is the disciplined connection between property releases and the wider economy. The show keeps translating charts, lending rules, OCR signals, and macro shocks into what may actually change in buyer and seller behaviour.
Brought to you by Cotality, formerly CoreLogic. Each week co-hosts Nick Goodall and Kelvin Davidson will bring you all the latest news, stats and insight to keep you up to date with everything to do with the NZ residential property market. Including sales volumes, house price indices, buyer activity, interest rates, loan-to-value ratio restrictions and all of the macro economic factors that influence our largest asset class. Contact us on twitter @NickGoodall_CL or @KDavidson_CLThis podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only and does not constitute financial, legal, or tax advice. The hosts are not licensed Financial Advice...
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Goodall and Davidson turn New Zealand housing data into a measured account of lending conditions, buyer behavior and the economic risks ahead.
Nick Goodall and Kelvin Davidson treat the housing market as a chain of connected signals. Their conversations move from lending and affordability data to buyer activity, interest-rate expectations and the economic pressures shaping New Zealand property, with each figure tested…
Mortgage math meets fuel-shortage anxiety, so your property hunches have to survive the wider economy.
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A clear read on how inflation, weak confidence, and fuel risks may shape property thinking.
The episode reads New Zealand property through the strain of the wider economy. Inflation is already higher, confidence among consumers and businesses has slipped, and the talk keeps circling back to fuel shortages and the chance they could push recession risk higher.
A steady read on lending, resilience, and what January does and does not tell the market.
January's lending reset is the main thread, and the piece does well to treat it as a move back toward something closer to normal after December's bank-switching surge.
Measured property talk that turns tax, rates, and market data into usable context.
This piece keeps its focus on the capital gains tax proposal, then widens into a clear read on the New Zealand property market. Sales are still rising, listings have eased a little but remain relatively high, property values are mostly flat, first-time buyers are still strong,…
Patient conversations on finance, climate, and purpose.
Confidence is the handbrake.
This episode features an interview with Gerard Berg, Head of Research in Australia at Cotality, discussing the global economic situation and comparing property markets and economies in Australia and New Zealand.
This episode discusses the New Zealand property market, focusing on economic data, first-time buyer activity, sales volumes, and challenges like stagflation and market fatigue.
Co-hosts Nick Goodall and Kelvin Davidson discuss the February home value index, noting a small rise in property values and analyzing underlying trends.
Nick Goodall and Kelvin Davidson open with the January lending data and the sharp drop from December's bank-switching surge.
This International Women's Day special episode features an interview with Nicole Ferguson, discussing her background, interests, and experiences as a woman in finance in New Zealand.
Co-hosts react to the Reserve Bank's OCR decision and economic forecasts, analyzing implications for the NZ property market.
Co-hosts discuss record-breaking December lending data from the Reserve Bank, focusing on bank switching and refinancing activity.
A special guest episode reviewing the Decoding 2026 report on property professionals' market expectations, planning reform, and digital landscape impact.
Co-hosts Nick Goodall and Kelvin Davidson analyze Q4 2025 inflation data and its implications for the New Zealand property market.
Co-hosts discuss the latest OCR outlook, construction cost index, and debt-to-income data for the New Zealand residential property market.
This episode discusses property investment strategies, value-adding renovations, and a new hedonic index for tracking property prices in New Zealand.
A special guest edition discussing local property markets in holiday destinations with mortgage advisors from Northland, Bay of Plenty, and Queenstown.
Nick Goodall and Calvin Davidson discuss the Labour Party's capital gains tax proposal announced by Chris Hipkins on 28 October 2025 — a 28% levy on net profits from residential investment and commercial property sales after July 2027, ring-fenced for health spending.
This episode previews New Zealand's monetary policy statement and analyzes Q2 property resale data, showing declining profit frequency and size amid weak property values.
Co-hosts discuss record levels of mortgage holders switching banks and analyze Reserve Bank lending data for the New Zealand property market.