Is it better to buy a house/flat in the UK or NZ now?
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Is it better to buy a house/flat in the UK or NZ now?
If you had the chance where would be a better investment?
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All other things being equal it'd be New Zealand, we have a peculiarity in our tax code where we effectively have no CGT or Stamp Duty.
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- We have looked at buying in Scotland because they don't have stamp duty.
- Property is less expensive in the UK than N.Z.
- Interest rates and house values in N.Z. are high as well as everything else! We know, we're from there.
- Higher increase in property value over the next 10 years? Who knows?
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IMO investing in a home anywhere other than either [1] where you currently live, or [2] where you expect to live in future, including in retirement, is always going to be highly speculative. So if you live in NZ, IMO it would be foolish to "invest" in a house in the UK unless you have a reasonable expeactation of returning to live there, because there are too many risks, both financial and practical, to owning a house in another country and thousands of miles away.
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There certainly is Stamp Duty in Scotland - only it's called the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax. The threshold will rise from 145k to 250k from 31 March 2021.
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Ir depends if you want to live in NZ or in UKofGB&NI.
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Thank you everyone for your replies, much appreciated. I definitely want to go back to NZ and avoid the second wave in the UK....sorry it is coming. Definitely do not want another winter here 2 summers is the goal and a new mini lifestyle block possibly, we shall see.
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Where we go from here on border controls etc. will also depend on the outcome of the election on 19th September.
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To be honest, level 4 wasn't so bad.
I'd rather carry on as we are and drop back a level or 3 if and when neccerssary. It's not feesible to keep the population on high alert when the risk is so minimal.
i think for many, having seen the Rona pass so easily, and affect so few, they wouldn't see it as such a risk. While infection rates climb, death rates seem to be falling. I wonder if many simply don't see it as a real threat anymore.
For me personally, the only thing stopping me from traveling overseas is bring stuck in isolation when I get back.
I'd rather carry on as we are and drop back a level or 3 if and when neccerssary. It's not feesible to keep the population on high alert when the risk is so minimal.
i think for many, having seen the Rona pass so easily, and affect so few, they wouldn't see it as such a risk. While infection rates climb, death rates seem to be falling. I wonder if many simply don't see it as a real threat anymore.
For me personally, the only thing stopping me from traveling overseas is bring stuck in isolation when I get back.
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Thank you everyone for your replies, much appreciated. I definitely want to go back to NZ and avoid the second wave in the UK....sorry it is coming. Definitely do not want another winter here 2 summers is the goal and a new mini lifestyle block possibly, we shall see.
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We're fed up with the whole deal here, thinking of retreating back to New Zealand although we've only been here a year. Just getting costs for air travel for our 2 Jack Russell's and beloved cat at the moment. We've only just recovered from the move and being in our 50's worry about employment back there, it's so confusing and stressful.
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We're fed up with the whole deal here, thinking of retreating back to New Zealand although we've only been here a year. Just getting costs for air travel for our 2 Jack Russell's and beloved cat at the moment. We've only just recovered from the move and being in our 50's worry about employment back there, it's so confusing and stressful.
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I got my visa and nothing is keeping me in the UK except.....someone I met a while back and having been getting to know....has made the NZ move complicated. Torn between both places now (not expecting dating advice ).
It does seem a no brainer as the UK is being slowly closed down and it seems it will be a long road back to recovery and NZ is getting slowly back to normal and summer is coming....
It does seem a no brainer as the UK is being slowly closed down and it seems it will be a long road back to recovery and NZ is getting slowly back to normal and summer is coming....