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It’s been a few years since I’ve spent my nights in the houses of clients who are genuinely seeking advice around what to do and how to grow their portfolio, rather than what’s the best rate.

With the Reserve Bank LVR changes (and generally below par rental yields) now is the time for investors to be looking at ways to maximise their existing portfolio and increasing its return where buying more properties is not an option.

Using your first home as an investment is actually an increasing trend, and there's been a lot of press about this new breed of 'rentvestor' in the last few years.

Flat money is paper money that comes into existence by government law. It is not valued to any ‘objective standard’ to say a commodity like gold or silver, so governments can produce as much money as they like. When you hear the expression ‘printing money’ that’s what is being referred to.

It is a scary question and one for which I don't have a reliable answer. There will be a market correction at some point in the not too distant future.

It looks like the Auckland property market is going to build up another head of steam in 2015. There is confidence in the air. We got through the election unscathed. However, the main catalyst is the prospect of lower interest rates.

There is a state of disbelief that house prices in a number of emerging Auckland city suburbs are hitting $1m. I can only think this is because we think $1m is a lot of money. It isn’t.

We get to see a number of ambitious young investors looking to rapidly grow their fledgling portfolios. The challenge is that accumulating properties has become tougher in the past 4-5 years with tighter bank credit rules and lower capital growth.

There is plenty of evidence around us that the Government and businesses like banks are no better at forecasting the future than Ursula the tarot card reader from Whakamaru.