mortgages.co.nz & Tony Alexander Mortgage Advisers Survey – January 2024
First home buyers back Each month we invite mortgage advisers around the country to give insights into developments in the residential real estate market from
Expertise
Tony’s areas of expertise include macroeconomic analysis with a focus on housing market dynamics, and since going independent in 2019 has developed a series of six monthly surveys which give unique coalface insights into aspects of the NZ economy. The surveys include that with mortgages.co.nz covering mortgage advisors, a survey of real estate agents with REINZ, a survey of consumers and another of businesses on his list of 25,000 subscribers. He also conducts a monthly survey of property investors with Crockers Property Management, and of personal investors with Sharesies.
Experience
Seven years with Westpac Bank in Sydney then New Zealand from 1987 including a year and a half speaking each morning with Paul Holmes about exchange rates and the economy. One year with a sharebroking firm in Wellington as their sole economist then recruited by BNZ as Deputy Chief Economist in 1993 before being appointed Chief Economist from late-1994 before leaving in late-2019. Tony pent five years in total working in dealing rooms but from 1994-2019 travelled extensively around the country making presentations on the economy and wrote a large number of weekly and monthly publications and newspaper columns
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Strong first home buyer interest Each month we invite mortgage advisers around the country to give insights into developments in the residential real estate market
Interest rate falls still not imminent In my last column two months ago I rather cheekily wrote at the start “Maybe we’ll be right this
Investors return Each month we invite mortgage advisers around the country to give insights into developments in the residential real estate market from their unique
First home buyers dominant Each month we invite mortgage advisers around the country to give insights into developments in the residential real estate market from
Mortgage rates up – again. Maybe we’ll be right this time. That is probably the best way us analysts could start our reports regarding interest
Strength remains Each month we invite mortgage advisers around the country to give insights into developments in the residential real estate market from their unique
Strengthening signs grow Each month we invite mortgage advisers around the country to give insights into developments in the residential real estate market from their
Mortgage rates have probably peaked Back on April 5 when the Reserve Bank surprised the financial markets by increasing the official cash rate 0.5% rather
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