Healy told interest.co.nz Auckland's housing affordability woes are driven by fundamental supply and demand issues.
"Supply being a historical one where we just weren't building enough houses so we've got a shortfall in the stock, plus we should be building about 15,000 houses a year in Auckland and I think we're building 7,000 or 8,000. So we're still not at the level we need to be," Healy said.
"The one area that you always worry about is high LVR (loan-to-value) lending, and of course the RBNZ (in 2013) put their macro-prudential tool on which limited the flow to 10% (of new residential mortgage lending). We were always the lowest in that category anyway, in terms of lending above 80%, but all of the banks have come down because of that flow restriction," said Healy.
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BNZ boss Anthony Healy says he can't see any short to medium-term shocks that are likely to correct Auckland house prices
Only an appalling cynic could suspect these guys at the top are desperately riding it out, and praying it won't all fall apart before they've retired to their islands to count the money they've siphoned from the NZ economy.
Decent people know our leaders only want what's best for us.
Don't fret - someone from foreign shores in receipt of cheap QE largesse will fund your withdrawal. The BNZ guy is just cheer leading his asset ledger, just as US corporate bosses engage with their share stakes - with other people's money.
Stock buybacks are notching new records on several fronts.
U.S. companies announced $141 billion of new stock buyback programs last month, the highest level ever for new buyback programs during a single month and an increase of 121% from April 2014, according to a count by Birinyi Associates Inc. Read more
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=114…
No no bubble here.
It's astonishing that people can kid themselves this is somehow normal and acceptable. Property prices have been talked-up; there is no genuine reason for the increases. The houses aren't better than they were when they cost much less. There is no real shortage, despite the bullshit claims. Armies of foreigners aren't pouring into the country and snapping up every house on the market, even though property spruikers want to believe it. It's a mania driven by greed and wishful-thinking.
The good news is I'm leaving the country in five weeks. Good news for me because I won't be around to suffer once people finally wake up and realise the emperor is naked. The fallout from the end of this bubble is going to be utterly horrendous and I want no part of it.
The Mona Lisa is a painting.
It's problem less cool and less useful that a 20MP cell phone picture of your family.
Which retails for more?
The price of the property in that market is not from the service or the construction, it's the demand (and how it exceeds the price and availability of cheap supply)
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I wish they'd teach this principle in NZ primary schools.
I learnt it when I was about 6yrs old.
"Dad can I have an ice cream please?" ..." Sure but it'll be 20 cents".
"But I don't have 20cents and I'd really like an ice cream" ... "Then it will be 25cents, how do you want to earn it?"
The demand, like the prices, is artificial, in that it's the result of hysteria rather than a lack of supply. Look at the very large percentage of passed in properties at auctions. This erroneous belief being encouraged by spruikers that every house on the market is instantly snapped up by desperate buyers is a major driver of the NZ property obsession. Asking prices for rotten little boxes in demilitarized zone suburbs have already become absurdly excessive and only the most idiotic of wannabe slumlords are willing or able to pay them. Forget about buying the more desirable places.
Average Kiwi incomes are still as low now as they've always been, yet all house prices have been talked up to an insanely high level as if everyone in NZ is a successful Hollywood producer looking for another Malibu mansion. The number of people able to meet current mortgage obligations is low and diminishing even as prices are talked up even higher by frenzied ignoramouses convinced houses are magical.
Go list your old iPad 2 on Trademe. Think you'll sell it for more than the then-new retail price you originally paid? Yet people selling a crappy old Kiwi house believe it's worth many times more than they paid for it, and spruikers such as yourself agree with them. Is there a shortage of houses out there? Obviously not, as the list of passed in properties will attest. The majority of buyers want the "nice" houses in the "nice" areas but most would-be buyers are unwilling or unable to meet the ludicrous asking prices for those and often not even the rotten slum in Mangere. The sellers refuse to budge from their magical houses fantasy and lower the price to meet the market, preferring instead to wait until the Rich Chinese Investor turns up on their doorstep with suitcases filled with money... Thus most properties at auction being passed in, unsold.
Hmmm I paid more than the previous owner, and they paid more than the previous owner. And the value will hold while inflation drives everything else (including the iPad down). The price is low for my iPad now, so I will hold rather than sell. If it's still going and has apps in 50years, you'd be surprised at the collector value.
But that "crappy" kiwi house is still priced well under a "new" crappy kwi house - just like the iPad2 is less than a new one.
And the old "crappy" Kiwi house still provides fully functional services (accommodation, storage, location) unlike the iPad2 which has compatiability and low quality component (built in obsolescence) issues and is deliberately made slower by features on newer models (such as the bigger memory and processor required to just run the OS). If we made it so Kiwi houses had to be built purely with materials under 5yrs old or be compatible with recent models, then they too would be very low price (which is something I mentioned earlier: If you want low price house sales, insisted that the seller brings *everything* up to modern code (or gets an undertaking from the purchaser that the work be _completed_ within 9 months of sale). then it would be like the iPad2, suddenly there is no serviceable value in the old model, and it _must_ be maintained. this puts pressure to sell, as ownership costs too much.
Just like the iPad2.
However that's why "normal" people need to think whether or not they can actually afford such as house market. Do you really want to have to pay "Apple iHouse" prices for your current season house?
Without it, as long as it's serviceable, and the costs are low/recoverable, then the property is a long term investment; and long term investments are valuable. (whereas working for farmers supplying fonterra, is *not*)
its not retail or banks that hold the debt. the fall out will effect spain and Italy as well, credit will squeeze worldwide same as before and our banks will not be able to source money same as before, so then some risky loans will not be renewed same as before. you don't have to go back far or have a long memory to remember what happened in 2008
Really, the Greek banks are looking at runs that will empty them. Then we see how much is owed to EU banks in turn and their state. Then we see the entire financial system lock up as banks are afraid to lend to each other. So somewhere between these 2 will be reality when Greece defaults, ive not sen anyone with a convincing line on where that will be yet.
the greek banks are already, empty the well to do have moved their money to other countries
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/apr/24/greek-debts-what-does-i…
Well to do exited, sure. Not so much the Greek ppl themselves, though with those large outflows there must be a lot under beds. The thing is what about all the money owed to EU banks by the Greek banks? I think of it as the domino effect, as long a the first one never falls the rest stay up. Once one falls Im not sure that they will be quick enough to catch it especially if hamstrung by pollies.
Indeed, he sees the danger, however when it comes down to it the Q is will be be able to do enough and will he be allowed to do it. Consider that the USA basically bailed out only 1 or 2 banks and had just Congress to deal with, the EU looks like quite a few more banks are involved to their eye balls and countries like Germany will probably fight it tooth and nail. Its certainly interesting watching this unfold.
465 banks failed in the USA after 2008, the fed only save the ones deemed to big to fail.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bank_failures_in_the_United_States…
the british had to step and save theres
Not sure the EU can save many, the germans and French will step in to save there big ones
which brings us to NZ will our govt step in to save the aussie big 4 or just kiwibank?
not saving it will happen but one school of thought is QE has not saved the world from depression but delayed it to happen again somewhere else, due to the fact it allowed to many weak companies economies to survive and not fall by the wayside so new and stronger ones can come through.
Maybe everyone is looking in the wrong place for a prick to burst the bubble.
Maybe a 10% rate rise will do it.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11445568
most young buyers are not aware of this, i chuckle when they tell me how much there house has gone up in a year, and i ask how much costs (rates, insurance) have gone up and how much their pay has.
the smile then disappears and they always come back with the same answer, but im richer,
and my answer
not much good if cant afford food cant eat a house
"Would-be purchasers sleep in cars so they get first dibs on 12 sections up for sale in Beachlands this morning."
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=1144...
Typical piece of Left Wing rubbish from Granny Herald. If you read the article you only needed a 5% deposit to secure the section. These "purchasers" are all speculators intent on securing land with a peanut deposit and then flogging off for a profit closer to the time when the titles come through.
Actually you (both) should. In the 70s and some other periods we had inflation due to wage increases, ie pull inflation, quasi-keynesian economics. You dont get inflation while in the zero bound trap, plus we have expensive energy. QE certianly has caused inflation in many assets s8uch as housing and some countries like say India and Russia I think have quite high inflation rates.
a) Only if you are an Austrian.
b) It isnt printing but QEing. When you print the money is in ppls pockets effectively for ever and that excess money causes prices to rise. With QE you have to borrow and hence pay it back and that is only really to buy assets.
c) We past peak oil so we have 30~50 years of NET deflation ahead of us. Now sure we might have the odd spike of inflation but the trend will be down as less and less fossil energy is available.
INTERVIEWER: Tell me, what is the worst-case scenario? We have so many economists coming on our air saying ‘Oh, this is a bubble, and it’s going to burst, and this is going to be a real issue for the economy.’ Some say it could even cause a recession at some point. What is the worst-case scenario if in fact we were to see prices come down substantially across the country?
BERNANKE: Well, I guess I don’t buy your premise. It’s a pretty unlikely possibility. We’ve never had a decline in house prices on a nationwide basis. So, what I think what is more likely is that house prices will slow, maybe stabilize, might slow consumption spending a bit. I don’t think it’s gonna drive the economy too far from its full employment path, though.
Theory on making money, is full of wholes Mr non-work Bernanke.
Why bother working, when inflation will take care of everything?. Cannot have one without the other. Producing rabbits out of a hat, is magic. Money..just an illusion.
Last time they even attempted a minute interest rate increase, America tanked...Bernanke was not thanked...Short memories, short on theory. Plenty of debt.
LOL
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Maybe the prick would not possible, if it were not for compulsory expansion of his domain, at the expense of the over extended and overseas interests.
Any fool can spend. Any fool can rip-off the system. Any fool can borrow at decreasing rates for some, but increasing the rates of others, to make some poor, at the wastrels expense.
Skimming off the top is the Councils way ahead. It always has been, it is even accelerating.
But actually making money to keep up with the idiot, is getting harder to do, unless we import it... in deflationary, deflowering and possibly DE-leveraging non-milking times.
Illusions are one thing, reality may sink in one day. If one can add up the true cost of Awklanders expansion zones, which I decline to join in with. Ugly is in the eye of the beholder, someone obviously needs glasses.
Ruining a city is not just monetary, any prick can have that effect. And they do.
Debt expansion is one thing. Paying for it twice is another. Getting screwed into the bargain..Classic Tui.
I salute you Awkland, for taking it lying down.
The bank experts and even the Prime minister agree there is no bubble. Yet most commenters on this site along with Gareth and Sham say there is a bubble. Who out of those two groups has the most at stake? Who to believe? Prices will be 30% lower in a year right lads?
no one is saying prices will be lower by that much, people wont sell unless they have too and a lot are quite happy to live in what they brought, what may happen is prices flatten for years until wages etc catch up.
if you go back over the fiqures for many decades you will see these cycles, generally houses over time only increase by a little bit over inflation.
People who use supply/demand equilibrium to explain why there is unlikely to be any price correction in the near future miss an important point. One of the key drivers of demand is projected capital gain. Once the market gets a whiff of evidence that the gain train has sailed and mean reversion has reared its head, that's a pretty solid demand factor completely removed and a potential boost for supply as sellers try to pick the top. It's this boot strapping arrangement between price-growth and demand that makes the whole thing so scary in my opinion - it tends to make movements more exponential (in both directions).
Actually I'm not so sure he knows nothing. ie I dont understand/accept how someone supposedly at the top of the financial industry/banking in NZ isnt bright enough to read tea leaves well. So he's either so amoral, blinkered, self-centred and partisan that he is prepared to lie on record, or, he really is clueless.
I dont think he's clueless.
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