
Property Cycles: Buying When Others Panic
Property headlines are designed to make you feel like you’re late, wrong, or doomed. We’d rather talk about what actually happens: the New Zealand property market moves in cycles, and the stories people tell at the top and bottom are almost always extreme. So we zoom out and look at the pattern, why downturns don’t last forever, and why a calmer long-term view can help you make better choices with housing, lending, and risk.
We also get real about the COVID-era surge and why it was such an unusual period for house prices. When prices ran up fast, plenty of buyers jumped in with FOMO…
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