A publication built on one overlooked fact.

When New Zealand banned foreign property buyers in 2018, the exemption for Australians barely made the news. Eight years later, most Australians still believe the door is closed - while the few who know better quietly buy beach houses with no stamp duty, no land tax and a favourable exchange rate.

Slice of NZ Property was started by two people on either side of that gap: Louis Wilks, who builds and runs digital businesses from the Waikato, and Guy Howard-Willis, a New Zealand entrepreneur who has spent decades building companies and owns his own slice of the Coromandel at Pauanui. The idea arrived the way good ones do - over a beer, with one of us saying "hang on, why does nobody know this?"

We are a publication and an introduction service, not a real estate agency. We publish the areas, the honest numbers and a curated shortlist of properties; when a reader wants to view a home, we introduce them to the property's own listing agent. Our guides say the uncomfortable parts out loud - including the Australian tax on your eventual gain - because a reader who trusts us at chapter six is worth more than a click who leaves at chapter two.

If you're an Australian wondering whether the rumour is true: it is. Start with can Australians buy property in New Zealand or go straight to the free guide.