Perhasp its because there is underlying value in NZ housing. If you compare with the USA which is one of the more affordable would you actually want to buy a house there. Go to Youngstown OH/PA - one of the more affordable in the world. You've got 14.2% unemployment - good luck gettign a job to pay your low mortgage for yoru cheap house! Conversely you have Kiwis reckoning the grass is greener on the other side of the Tasman - where housing affordability on the Sunshne Coast is rated worst in the world. Thats not stopping them moving and getting on with life.
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