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New Zealand Residential Valuer Insights – Q2 2025

Fresh insights into New Zealand’s evolving residential property market – Q2 2025 trends and valuer perspectives.

June 24, 2025 11 Minute Read

By Tamba Carleton Craig Russell Zoltan Moricz Jenny Lam

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Real Residential Valuation Insights - From the People Who Know the Market Best

Looking for more than broad housing stats? The Q2 2025 CBRE New Zealand Residential Valuer Insights Report provides real insights into the residential property market from experts conducting over 850 valuations monthly. 

These professionals observe buyer sentiment, pricing trends, and regional dynamics firsthand, offering a data-informed view of the housing landscape, unlike generic market summaries. 

Whether you're an investor, developer, homeowner, or industry professional, this report offers actionable intelligence on property values and market momentum for New Zealand real estate. 

Stay ahead with insights based on real valuations, as local expertise matters.

About the Survey

  • 45

    Residential Valuers Surveyed

  • 850+

    Independent Residential Valuations per Month

  • 21

    Locations Across New Zealand Contributing to a Truly National Perspective.

Key Findings

  1. Recent housing market demand

    Valuers across New Zealand have reported a moderately balanced housing market in Q2 2025, with 56% of CBRE Valuers indicating moderate demand and 42% indicating soft demand across their respective markets.

  2. First home buyers are active

    Over 90% of valuers surveyed noted first home buyers as one of the most active buyer profiles in their area. This is a heartening result given New Zealand’s internationally recognised housing unaffordability.

  3. Turnkey properties are the most popular

    Recently renovated properties, standalone dwellings, and properties in prime locations have experienced an increase in demand. In Q2 2025, 51% of Valuers reported increased demand for recently renovated properties, and no valuers reported a decrease in demand for this typology. 

  4. Declining interest rates are helping demand

    Demand expectations are positive with all valuers surveyed reporting that they expect demand to either remain the same or increase in the next 12 months. This is based on the view that declining interest rates are a key driver of housing market recovery.

  5. House value lift expected in the next 12 months

    Over half (56%) of valuers surveyed expect house values in their area to increase by up to 5% in the next 12 months. A further 33% expect prices to be stable.

  6. Stability expected for lifestyle properties

    Almost two thirds of valuers expect lifestyle property values to remain stable over the next 12 months. For valuers expecting a change in pricing, almost one third are expecting a small value uplift of up to 5%. Relatively few valuers are expecting larger changes in pricing.

  7. Vacant land also expected to be stable

    Although market conditions have been difficult in the past few years, 62% of valuers expect vacant land values in their area to remain stable over the next 12 months. This is symptomatic of a recovering market as the economic cycle is expected to improve.

  8. Most valuers expect a balanced listing volume

    Expectations of future supply to the market for the next 12 months indicate a steady or increasing stream of new listings in most markets. 47% of valuers expect supply to remain the same level as it is currently, and 33% anticipate supply levels of properties for sale to increase.

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