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Over the past couple of months we have written about how there is a bit of a Mexican stand-off between vendors and purchasers in the housing market.

I know there is a lot of negative sentiment out there about the property market at the moment, but I was a little bit surprised to see how bearish sentiment is.

The next week is likely to see lots of news on what’s happening with house prices around the country. First up is likely to be the QV data, followed closely by numbers from the Real Estate Institute.

We Kiwis sitting here in New Zealand often look at Australia as the land of opportunity and a place where things seem better than our lot.