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New Zealand Residential Valuer Insights – Q4 2025

December 14, 2025 11 Minute Read

By Tamba Carleton Craig Russell Zoltan Moricz

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Looking for more than broad housing stats? The Q4 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 residential real estate.

 

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

About the Survey

  • 31

    Residential Valuers Surveyed

  • 850+

    Independent Residential Valuations per Month

  • 21

    Locations Represented (Nationwide Coverage)

Key Findings

  1. Recent housing market demand

    Demand for housing in New Zealand has experienced an upward shift between Q3 and Q4 of 2025, with fewer valuers reporting soft market conditions in their respective areas. 

  2. First home buyers continue to dominate

    First home buyers have remained the most active buyer profile among all areas. For the first three quarters of 2025 they were reported as a top 4 buyer group for over 90% of valuers. In our most recent survey this has fallen slightly to 87%. 

  3. Standalone properties are the most popular

    Standalone houses, recently renovated properties, and properties in prime (higher value) locations have experienced an increase in demand. No valuers reported a decrease in demand for these typologies. In each of our 2025 surveys, standalone homes continued to increase.

  4. A little less confident around future demand

    Surprisingly, demand expectations in the most recent survey have declined compared to surveys that occurred earlier in 2025. While more than half of valuers are expecting demand to increase slightly over the coming year, the proportion of 58% is below that of Q1, Q2, and Q3.

  5. Moderate housing value lift is expected

    Two thirds (65%) of valuers surveyed expect house values in their area to increase by up to 5% in the next 12 months. A further third (32%) expect prices to be stable.

  6. Minor growth expected for lifestyle properties

    Expectations of growth in next years lifestyle property values have increased between our Q3 and Q4 surveys. While this may be the case, unlike what was observed in the Q1 and Q2 surveys, no valuers are expecting a strong pricing lift of over 5% for lifestyle properties.

  7. Vacant land expected to be stable

    Although market conditions have been difficult in the past few years, 68% of valuers expect vacant land values in their area to remain stable over the next 12 months, a higher proportion than what was reported for Q1 and Q2 2025.

  8. Some moderation in future listing volume

    Expectations of future supply to the market for the next 12 months indicate an increasing stream of new listings, however expectations have moderated somewhat compared to the Q3 survey. 

Types of Residential Property We Value

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