17 tips for house hunters

 

Buying a home for the first time (or even the second or third time) can be a big learning curve.

Getting finance approved, hiring a lawyer, reading building reports, ordering LIMs and placing an offer are just some of the challenges you may be undertaking for the first time when you purchase a house.

To help you along your property journey, we asked our Facebook followers – real New Zealanders buying Kiwi homes – to share the number one tip they’ve learned from house hunting.

Here are 17 nuggets of advice:

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Click here to read all the tips over on Facebook. 

Submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.

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