Today, Wednesday 12 November

12th November 2025 By Staff Reporter | news@propertyticker.co.nz | @propertyticker

The Ticker’s daily roundup of national and international property industry news, views and analysis.

National

Freemans Bay residents oppose Ockham’s plans for The Kubrick, 9-level purple apartment block
NZH

Latest rental data suggests strong supply of rental housing is pushing down rents
Interest

Northwest grossed over $300m through Vital Healthcare management contract
Newsroom

Economy strangled by lack of competition, policy makers ‘captured’ – campaigner
RNZ

Ombudsman complaint prompts Reserve Bank to disclose it quadrupled Auckland lease costs
NZH

South shows ‘early signs’ of recovery in property market, Auckland falls
1News

Metlifecare rejects claims new unit deals harm those awaiting capital repayment
Post

38 architecturally designed townhouses on Christchurch’s Oxford Tce hit the market
Press

International

Real estate titan Barry Sternlicht says he will ‘have to’ drop employees in favor of AI
CNBC

Sweden’s SBB to offload community property portfolio in deal valued at $3.4 billion
Reuters

Hong Kong’s slumping commercial property market lures savvy tycoon-linked buyer
SCMP

New York City commercial real estate industry seeks to work with Mamdani as rent freezes threaten
Reuters

NYC’s office space market ‘out of woods in real disasters,’ says activist investor Jonathan Litt
CNBC

BaptistCare goes big in seniors living with $140m deal
AFR

Goodman to avert second strike after billionaire boss takes a pay cut
AFR

DigiCo Infrastructure REIT targets 95% capacity growth by June
CB

NTT Data doubles down on AI data centers across Asia
Nikkei

Ikea’s first non-Swedish CEO vows to preserve its frugal roots
Bloomberg