The data speak for themselves
May 14, NZ Herald: Housing boom cuts mortgagee sales. The number of mortgagee listings has been falling nationally since the recession, and Auckland is leading the charge.
May 31: Stuff: More people losing the family home. High numbers of ”mum and dad” homeowners are losing family homes to mortgagee sales, new figures show.
June 1: Stuff: Rise in family home mortgagee sales. Family homes are making up an increasing number of the more than 2200 mortgagee sales in New Zealand, new figures show.
June 9: NZ Herald: Mortgagee sales: Landlords feel pain. Mortgagee sales have hit record numbers, and landlords are the new victims.
The housing market doesn’t change that much from week to week.
Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »