A year on, what has changed in housing? Meat co-op faces re-run of Shanghai Maling vote, Peer-to-peer lenders find dishonest applicants
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In NBR Print today: A year ago, there were broadly six options canvassed for taking some of the pressure off Auckland property prices. NBR ranked them in order of likelihood Rob Hosking reveals what happened.
Tim Hunter reports Silver Fern Farms faces a new challenge to its partnership with Chinese food company Shanghai Maling as shareholders seek to rerun their vote on the deal after a petition of shareholders was sent to the meat-co-operative’s board demanding a special shareholder meeting.
The country’s biggest peer-to-peer lender has called in the police to investigate a suspected fraud ring cashing out loans, and a rival platform says the amount of dishonesty in loan applications is staggering, Calida Smylie reports.
As the tourism industry continues to boom, the sector has felt the strain and accommodation prices continue to rise. Jason Walls reports that experts say in the long run, this will have a detrimental impact and tourist numbers will fall in five to seven years. Meanwhile the hotel industry is still getting over the 2007 global financial crash with a hotel in Gisborne one of the last to sell, Chris Hutching reports. And columnist Bernard Hickey calls for government subsidies of the regions to help them provide infrastructure for toursts and tourism.
Nick Grant reveals the Legal Complaints Review Officer has been increasingly burdened by a backlog of cases. Now it’s at breaking point, he writes: “ At the current rate of clearance it would take 21 months just to deal with what’s already on its books.”
This week’s NBR Special Report is I.T / I.C.T – When the digital world comes knocking.
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Fri, 22 Apr 2016
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A year on, what has changed in housing? Meat co-op faces re-run of Shanghai Maling vote, Peer-to-peer lenders find dishonest applicants
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