Economics New Zealand

A while back I went and had a looksie at some local Special Housing Areas near me in Auckland. I wasn't hugely impressed. At the first...

Earlier this month I posted what I hope will be my last tiki tour of some Special Housing Areas (SHAs) near our place. And at the time I sa...

The new Public Policy Institute at the University of Auckland kicked off yesterday with a public lecture by Professor John Hewson on 'T...

Almost two years ago now, I went and had a look at a Special Housing Area (SHA) that had been set up a few Ks away in Browns Bay. Oddly, th...

There was good news today about the volume of new housing consents in Auckland: as Stats pointed out in the release , "Monthly building...

On Tuesday evening Harshal Chitale, senior economist in Auckland's Chief Economist Unit, spoke at the latest LEANZ seminar on 'Fund...

The other day I was poring over the NZIER's latest compilation of consensus forecasts - an invaluable resource from many perspectives, ...

There was a big turnout on Tuesday night in Auckland at the latest Law and Economics Association of New Zealand ( LEANZ ) event - a panel di...

At last. Last month, workers arrived and started to put advertising hoarding up... ...announcing that this former New World superma...

The latest statistics on building consents came out this morning, and I've been keeping an eye on them mainly because Auckland housing ...

Auckland Council staff have been working through the Proposed Auckland Unitary Plan that an independent hearings panel delivered to them las...

Let's start with the positive: Stats told us that building consents in Auckland rose by 16% in the year to June, to 9,651 homes. Righ...

Nine months ago I went and had  'A visit to a Special Housing Area' near to us. Three months later I went and had another look: not...

Three months ago I went and had a look at a Special Housing Area (SHA) that had been set up not too far away from us in Browns Bay (if you...

A while back, I saw that a Special Housing Area (SHA) had been set up quite close to us, in Browns Bay. So I went and had a nosey, as you do...