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Investment in New Zealand, Investment in your future !
New Zealand – safe, secure, beautiful
New Zealand has the work-life balance just right and consistently leads international quality-of-life surveys every year.
It is a well-developed, well connected country that has led the world in recent years with respect to governance, leadership and domestic policy.
New Zealanders believe life is for living. It’s about balancing a good day’s work with time for family and friends plus all the recreation and wide-open spaces our country offers.
- Quality of Living Rankings | Mercer
- World’s Most Liveable Cities | Economist
- Expat Explorer Index | HSBC
- Human Development Report | UN
Lifestyle choices
New Zealand does not have the endless sprawls of high-density housing or rows of towering high-rises you find elsewhere. There’s room to breathe and a wide variety of lifestyle options.
You can choose upbeat urban apartment living or a suburban backyard with room for children and a vegetable patch (we call this a ‘quarter acre paradise’). Alternatively, you can go a little further afield and live by the sea or get close to nature in rural open spaces, perhaps with some farmland and animals (known there as lifestyle blocks).
New Zealand is the perfect place to bring up children.
There are wonderful opportunities for young people to grow up with easy access to sports and outdoors, space and freedom: to ride horses, to run along open beaches, to swim in clean water, to walk through native forests and to truly experience the beauty of nature.
Our wide-open spaces mean you have the choice of every style of living you and your family could want. There is a wide range of housing options in New Zealand in terms of style, quality and price depending on location.
Less commuting
Smaller, less crowded cities and towns make getting to and from work much easier. Expect to leave home at a decent hour and arrive back with time to achieve something in the evening.
What do Expats think of New Zealand?
It’s stable, peaceful and safer than just about anywhere else in the world – in fact we’re the second safest country in the world, according to the 2017 Global Peace Index.
76% of expat parents living in New Zealand felt that their “offspring are more healthy living in New Zealand” according to HSBC’s 2015 Expat Explorer survey. Nearly three in five agreed that they personally had become more physically active since their move. Expats rate New Zealand first in the world for ‘health’.
Developed public services
Individuals and families in New Zealand get great support from a range of public services. They include access to welfare and support if someone has an accident or if either parent can’t work because of sickness or unemployment.
New Zealand’s comprehensive health system is built on Kiwi’s inbuilt need to see that everyone gets ‘a fair go’ in life. New Zealand residents benefit from free or low cost healthcare thanks to heavy Government subsidies, and non-residents can also use healthcare services, dependent on their visa status.
World-class education
New Zealand offers an excellent education system. For example, in what’s been called the “biggest ever global school rankings”, the OECD in 2015 put us comfortably in the top 20 nations for the quality of our schools.
All eight of our universities come in among the top 500 QS World University Rankings for 2015/16.
Add in a safe learning environment and a healthy dose of the outdoor recreation available in our wide-open spaces, and you have a recipe for producing resourceful and confident young adults ready to take on the world.
QS World University Rankings 2015/16 | Top Universities
Visa Options for New Zealand
Investing
Investor 1 & 2 Visas
There are two major investment visa options currently available to applicants and their families, Investor 1 and Investor 2. Each has its own criteria and will lead to the opportunity to apply for permanent residency after a minimum period of investment has been met.
These visas are popular as they do not require an offer of employment, proof of qualifications or work experience and enable applicants to take advantage of a range of lucrative opportunities in NZ whilst, at the same time, securing their New Zealand future.
Parent Retirement Residence Visa
This visa option is for those who have an adult child who is a New Zealand citizen or resident. They must have a min of $1 million to invest over a 4 year period, $500,000 settlement funds and an annual income of at least $60,000. They can be any age but cannot have any dependent children.
Temporary Retirement Visitor Visa
If you have NZ $750,000 to invest in New Zealand for 2 years, another NZ $500,000 to live on, and an annual income of NZ $60,000, you can stay longer than allowed on a standard Visitor Visa, anything up to a period of two years. You can bring a partner with you and enjoy a safe, long stay in New Zealand. This visa is for people over the age of 66 and offers an opportunity to spend extended time here which is often difficult to achieve for older people.
Working
There are several different temporary work visas open to migrants and these can lead onto Permanent Residency. New Zealand faces severe skills shortages in a number of industries, but you do not need a job offer in one of the listed skills shortages to be able to apply for a visa. If a NZ employer offers you a full-time role and you are qualified to undertake this work then this can lead to a three year visa for yourself and your family. With this type of visa you and your family are entitled to public health care and to access the education system.
General Investment Information
What types of investment are acceptable to Immigration New Zealand?
The opportunities you take up must fit our ‘acceptable investment’ criteria. Broadly speaking, acceptable investments can be:
- Equity in NZ firms, public or private. An equity investment can be active or passive, and be made direct or via managed funds (only the proportion of the Fund that is invested in NZ is counted as acceptable).
- Bonds, issued by the NZ Government, NZ local authorities or approved NZ banks, finance companies or firms.
- New residential property development that is not for the investor’s personal use and designed to make a commercial return on the open market.
- Up to 15% of the investment total can be philanthropic investment.
- Generally, to be considered acceptable, an investment must:
- Be capable of a commercial return under normal circumstances.
- Be invested in New Zealand in New Zealand currency.
- Have the potential to contribute to New Zealand’s economy.
- Not be for the personal use of the investor.
This is just an overview, and there are other conditions that apply.
Rules regarding Investment funds
You can nominate a mix of funds and/or assets to invest. They must be equivalent to at least NZ$3 million for Investor or NZ$10 million for Investor Plus, though you may nominate more, depending on the points claimed in your Expression of Interest (EOI).
You will need to provide evidence showing that your investment and/or assets are owned by you or jointly by you and your partner and/or dependent children if they are included in the application.
You will also need to provide evidence showing that your intended investment funds:
- are unencumbered, i.e. not subject to any mortgage, lien, charge and/or encumbrance (whether equitable or otherwise) or any other creditor claims
- have been earned or acquired legally
- are transferable through the banking system or through a foreign exchange company that uses the banking system (Immigration New Zealand will not be able to approve your application if you are unable to transfer funds to New Zealand through the banking system)
Additional rules regarding residential and commercial property investment
New Zealand Visa Connections can refer you to our investment partner which provides a range of commercial, residential and fund investment opportunities.
Immigration New Zealand sets additional rules relevant to investments made into residential property. These are:
- the residential property must be in the form of new developments on either new or existing sites; and
- the residential property cannot include renovation or extension to existing developments; and
- the new developments must have been approved and gained any required consents by any relevant regulatory authorities (including local authorities); and
- the purpose of the residential property investments must be to make a commercial return on the open market; and
- neither the family, relatives, nor anyone associated with the principal investor, may reside in the development.
Note these further investment conditions in relation to investing into commercial property:
- the property is not residential or for domestic use; and
- the property is used for business purposes, in that it is:
- capable of a commercial return; and
- not used for land banking ; and
- the purpose of the commercial property investments must be to make a commercial return on the open market; and
- neither the family, relatives, nor anyone associated with the main applicant may reside in the development; and
- if a new development, the property must have been approved and gained any required consents by any relevant regulatory authorities (including local authorities).
There are further criteria relevant to investment in finance companies, managed funds, venture capital funds and philanthropic investment. We can advise on these as required.
Rewards for growth investments
If you invest at least 25% of your investment funds into assets other than Bonds and Philanthropic Investment, Investor visa holders will be able to meet their time in New Zealand requirement flexibly, with Investor 2 visa holders required to spend 438 days over the 4 year investment period and Investor Plus visa holders needing to spend 88 days over the 3 year investment period.
Investor 2 visa holders who invest at least 50% of your investment funds into assets other than Bonds and Philanthropic Investment will qualify for a reduction of $0.5m of the investment amount. For example, if you nominate $3m of investment funds and invest $1.5m outside of Bonds and Philanthropic Investment, you will only be required to invest a further $1m to meet the visa requirements.
Cap
There is no cap on the Investor Plus Category, although it should be noted that under the Investor 2 Category there is a cap of only 400 applications per annum. The Investor 2 Category operates on a points scoring system, so in instances where the Category is oversubscribed the minimum investment amount noted of NZ$3.0 million will need to be increased to score higher to increase the chance of being selected to allow formal application.
Team Torsney Global have multiple properties in the residential and Commercial Sectors available for immediate sale in New Zealand.
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