Property Research Institute · Aotearoa New Zealand
The independent evidence behind New Zealand property decisions.
Developers, investors, funders, and anyone who simply needs the numbers appoint us to produce the market data, research and feasibility documentation that good decisions rest on.
Research you commission. Data you can use. Evidence you present.
Every piece of work is independent, authored to a high standard, and built for you to put your name to, whether the room is a boardroom, a credit committee, or simply your own kitchen table.
Commissioned research and market reports
Bespoke market and sector studies, authored for your asset, site or thesis, and delivered as independent evidence you can publish or present.
Learn more →Feasibility and funding documentation
We are not a finance broker. We prepare the evidence pack a lender needs in order to say yes: feasibility, demand, comparables, risk and the development pathway.
Learn more →Property data and subscriptions
For anyone who needs the numbers: current rates, values, sales and policy, tracked and explained. Self serve dashboards, or data prepared on request.
View the data →One evidence base. Four kinds of reader.
The same independent data answers very different questions. We serve all four, and we now make the core numbers available to anyone with an interest in property.
Developers
Test a site before you commit. We establish demand, yield and viability, then document the pathway that makes a project fundable and buildable.
Investors
Underwrite with conviction. Comparative analysis, sector fundamentals and stress tested return scenarios sit behind every confident allocation.
Funders
Validate the case in front of you. We provide independent third party assessment of the market, the asset and the downside.
Anyone with an interest
Buyers, owners, students, media and the simply curious. The current numbers, explained in plain language and openly sourced.
The market, in numbers.
A current read of the indicators behind every brief we write, drawn from the Reserve Bank, the major data houses and the banks. Hover any point to read the detail.
Latest insights.
Independent commentary across the three forces shaping New Zealand property right now: interest rates, government policy and the market itself.
The Official Cash Rate at 2.25 percent, and why the next move looks like up
After a deep easing cycle, the Reserve Bank is holding while imported inflation builds. Here is what that means for the cost of finance.
What is legal to build is being rewritten
The replacement of the RMA, an optional MDRS and the end of apartment balcony minimums are redrawing the development map out to 2027.
A market treading water, and quietly favouring the buyer
Values are flat, townhouse supply is high and rents are resetting. Here is the full data picture, synthesised from every major source.
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Tell us the decision in front of you.
A short conversation is the fastest way to scope the right piece of work. We will talk through the question, the audience it has to convince, and the timeline you are working to. There is no charge for the first conversation.
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Rates, values and policy. The movements that matter each month, explained in plain language, for developers, investors, funders and anyone who follows the market.