Law aims to boost housing affordability after property prices rise more 75% in some parts of the country in four years
The New Zealand government has banned the sale of existing homes to foreign buyers, saying New Zealanders were sick of being “tenants in our own land”.
Associate minister of finance David Parker said the ban would mean housing would become more affordable for locals, and supply would increase.
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