Mortgages

 

PHOTO: 123RF – Pressure may go on rents as investors become less willing to top up their mortgages, Barfoot & Thompson warns.

It might be a good time to consider rental property investment – and not such a great time to be a tenant, an Auckland real estate agency says.

Barfoot & Thompson has released its Auckland rental market update for the December quarter.

It shows the average weekly rent for a three-bedroom house on its books was $547, up 4.3 per cent from the year before.

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