Sentiment tracker - Housing market

Tracking New Zealanders’ opinions on a range of issues, the Sentiment Tracker is a nationally representative study.

The housing market has become one of the bubbliest in the world, with New Zealanders attributing growth to numerous factors, including interest rates, land prices and availability of housing.


Key facts

Four in five New Zealanders feel New Zealand’s property market is overinflated (42%) or out of control (39%).

The New Zealand public thinks this pressure on housing is attributable to several factors. The most impactful factors are thought to be investors/speculators (40%), the cost and availability of building (39%), land prices (32%) and bank interest rates (30%).

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