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  • North & South

    editorial

    Feb 10, 2020 3 minutes
    Virginia Larson

    HOUSE PRICES are on the move again. Upwards, of course.

    The Real Estate Institute of New Zealand had to dip back into its bag of superlatives for its December report on the residential market: “Wellington was a standout region… Southland, Manawatū/Whanganui and Gisborne again saw really strong uplifts in price…”

    To cap these tidings of comfort and joy, a bunch of people on the North Shore became millionaires, again, when a

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