They might be looking for an "international day trader".
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I would never vote for NZF but will be very pleased if National ACT are forced into coalition with them, if only to put a stop to opening the gates to our housing stock to foreign buyers/investors/ speculators.
Who wants a return to neighbourhoods with lots of vacant homes owned by foreigners who don't live here & don't rent out their houses? It was a growing problem in parts of Auckland & damaging for communities.
With the NZD at US .58, how would we feel with our kids having to compete at auction with foreign buyers who only have to pay US$1.16 million for a NZ$2 million house (plus US$ 174,000 in tax) & you can hardly buy a house in Auckland for under $2 million.
In my view, National's policy relies on us selling over $2.2 Billion of NZ housing stock to foreigners in just the next 3 years, almost $3 Billion in the next 4 years, is so short sighted, so damaging.
Other countries don't allow it, why should we?
On another note on landlords, anyone else heartily sick of hearing about "mum & dad investors" while we never ever, ever hear about "mum and dad renters"
Heard the phrase repeatedly on talk-back radio the other day including by the host, while renters are never referred to as people.
Renters are referred to as renters, property investors are referred to as property investors, share traders are referred to as share traders, business owners are referred to as business owners, farmers are referred to as farmers, commuters are referred to as commuters etc etc etc.
I think in this case your highly sensitive Left wing antennae has just picked up on new invented ‘injustice’ to have a whinge and a cry about.
National Party already wasting money on things like a Space Minister we are not a USA or China leave that to the private sector . Not against vision but realistic ones like a future bid for the men's soccer world cup with Australia 2034.