{"id":68,"date":"2010-02-19T10:13:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T22:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colinrealestate.blogtown.co.nz\/?p=68"},"modified":"2010-02-19T10:13:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T22:13:39","slug":"competition-for-best-rentals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colinrealestate.blogtown.co.nz\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"Competition for Best Rentals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As 2010 gets under way it seems there are fewer vacant rental properties available and certainly better presented and larger homes are in hot demand.<\/p>\n<p>First National Group\u2019s latest quarterly property management survey has thrown up a number of trends, amongst them. First National General Manager John Stewart commented \u201cTenants seemed to be reacting favourably to the Government\u2019s 2009 drive to upgrade home insulation by seeking modern or modernised homes. <\/p>\n<p>Overall vacancy rates have halved since the middle of last winter, and a quarter of our offices reported occupancy rates of around 99%. <\/p>\n<p>Stewart added \u201cHigher quality homes were in demand overall, with \u201ccheap and cheerful\u201d rentals in excess supply.  We have also Investor activity is also up notwithstanding nervousness over property tax changes.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As 2010 gets under way it seems there are fewer vacant rental properties available and certainly better presented and larger homes are in hot demand. First National Group\u2019s latest quarterly property management survey has thrown up a number of trends, amongst them. First National General Manager John Stewart commented \u201cTenants seemed to be reacting favourably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Competition for Best Rentals - colinrealestate","description":"As 2010 gets under way it seems there are fewer vacant rental properties available and certainly better presented and larger homes are in hot demand. First Nati"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5532],"tags":[5533],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-estate-2","tag-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinrealestate.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinrealestate.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinrealestate.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinrealestate.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinrealestate.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/colinrealestate.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinrealestate.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinrealestate.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinrealestate.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}