Househunters based in China made up more than half the visitors to New Zealand's top Mandarin property sales web site, most only looking in Auckland.Sam Yin, founder and chief executive of Auckland-based real estate portalHougarden, which means backyard in Mandarin, yesterday released his data on the 496,575 people who visited the site in February, March and April.
Of those, 53 per cent (262,042) were people who were based in China, compared with 45 per cent (223,607) of people who were based in New Zealand. Another 1.5 per cent (7498) were based in Hong Kong, Mr Yin said.But he said that many of the offshore visitors left the site after viewing one page suggesting "that fears of offshore speculators may be exaggerated".
"It's obviously a lot harder for overseas Chinese to buy property here than it is locals... It confirms that there is interest, but not necessarily hard cash coming from overseas."Overall, 78 per cent (388,470) of people searched for Auckland properties.
Among the top 22 key words searched for were: subdivision, rental property, investment, weatherboard, full section, double Grammar zone, university, land bank and Rangitoto.The data was for activity from February 1 to April 30, a similar timeframe to the leaked Barfoot &Thompson data which Labour received.
移民数创新高，抢购新西兰投资房
 
新西兰的净移民数又创新高，根据最新的数据表明，直到今年6月，净移民数达到58,300，创历史新高。光6月新西兰净移民数为4800，该数据与2015年5月净移民数5100相比略有下降。在过去的一年中，净移民数浮动不大，在2015年一月曾达到顶峰，移民数为5500。人口统计经理维娜卡勒姆说，今年6月净移民数比去年同期有所上涨，主要归根于更多的人到达新西兰以及更少的人离开新西兰。
 
净移民人数持续上升，目前以及达到新的高点。这与去年六月数据相比，净移民数增长15%，然而净移民离港人数仅为57,400比去年下降8％。Westpac银行资深经济学家费利克斯·德尔布吕克说，净移民正呈现放缓趋势。他预计，净移民会随着时间的推移而有所下降，但这是个漫长的步伐。很多人考虑到基督城城市需要重建以及新西兰经济的增长缓慢，而放弃移民到新西兰，这也是新西兰没有成为移民首选地之一的重要原因。
 
然而新西兰却成为了澳大利亚的替代品，很多人在澳大利亚申请移民无望变转向了新西兰。
 
新西兰央行上月降低了OCR,而这一举动得到了新西兰大多数行业压倒性的支持。虽然净移民的数据对储蓄银行降低OCR的影响并不大，但是净移民数的增加会给劳动市场带来较大压力，而不能刺激消费。
 
净移民数的增加也推动了当地的房价。甚至近年来带动了许多海外人士涌入新西兰买房投资。据有关报道，新西兰截止6月购买投资房数量大幅度上市，海外投资者购买的比例并不少。而多数的海外投资者除了把眼光放在奥克兰之外，也渐渐的转向北岛其他的区域。最新的QV房价指数显示，Tauranga，汉密尔顿和Bay of Plenty西部房屋价值都开始上涨。
 
惠灵顿也将受到了一定的波及，加上新西兰政府将会对首期款和增值税进行限制，银行也将配合政府实行这项政策。所以，想要买投资房的投资者要抓紧时间，买上投资房。
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