The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation [1] with New Zealand on May 19, 2025.Tight monetary policy has helped bring inflation back to target, ...

Gisborne, a remote New Zealand city, faces a rental crisis, becoming the nation's most expensive due to Cyclone Gabrielle's ...

New Zealand's economy is slowly shrugging off a lengthy downturn supported by hefty interest-rate cuts with the Reserve Bank of New Zealand trimming interest rates aggressively since mid-2024 when the ...

The Government has allocated $128 million over four years to deliver at least 550 new social homes in Auckland in the 2025/26 ...

Many hoped that interest rate cuts could make housing more affordable. But cheaper money for housing, amid a market with high ...

Wealthy Americans eying New Zealand as a haven are hoping the government will soon relax a ban on house sales to foreigners, ...

Recently, the Yen has often been a safe bet. It got stronger when US-China trade tensions peaked in April and early May, ...

Annual visitor spending in Rotorua to February 2025, based on tourism electronic card transactions, was $441 million ...

SYDNEY--Despite wild swings in global financial markets in April, New Zealand's manufacturing sector activity continued to grow, supported by falling borrowing costs and signs the domestic economy is ...

Wilson also announced the "iconic ecotourism" operator Redwoods Treewalk would in September launch its "breathtaking new ...

Lower home values and easing interest rates are creating a rare opportunity for first-home buyers to enter the New Zealand housing market ... to declare a market recovery,” he said.