{"id":172414,"date":"2026-08-22T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/first-home-buyers-gain-ground-in-whanganui-as-investors-retreat\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T04:08:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T21:08:19","slug":"first-home-buyers-gain-ground-in-whanganui-as-investors-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/first-home-buyers-gain-ground-in-whanganui-as-investors-retreat\/","title":{"rendered":"First-home buyers gain ground in Whanganui as investors retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWhanganui is reported to be among NZ\u2019s top towns for people purchasing their first home.
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\nSource : nzherald.co.nz\/Property
\nRead more…First-home buyers gain ground in Whanganui as investors retreat<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whanganui is reported to be among NZ\u2019s top towns for people purchasing their first home. ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-IQS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32471,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/regions-manawatu-whanganui-popular-among-young-home-buyers\/","url_meta":{"origin":172414,"position":0},"title":"Regions, Manawatu-Whanganui popular among young home buyers","date":"October 31, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Young people living in regional New Zealand have a better chance of owning their own home than their counterparts in the bigger centres, according to new figures.Mortgage data showed 4.2 per cent of people with mortgages in Auckland...\r \r Source : nzherald.co.nz\/Property\r Read more...Regions, Manawatu-Whanganui popular among young home\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":82648,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/whanganui-faces-4-5-per-cent-rate-rise\/","url_meta":{"origin":172414,"position":1},"title":"Whanganui faces 4.5 per cent rate rise","date":"March 14, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Pain will come before gain with Whanganui ratepayers set to face an average rates rise of 4.5 per cent this year. 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