Labour weekend has been and gone, but wasn’t it nice to have a relaxing long weekend to enjoy! We hope your batteries are recharged for the last couple of months of 2016.

In this month’s newsletter, we address a range of issues.  Andrew Gawith takes a look at the future for electric vehicles and what policy actions must be taken, while Benje Patterson explores recent changes to migration policy and what effects these changes might have on industries suffering skills shortages.

We delve once more into the world of commercial property, arguing that yields in Tauranga and Hamilton look alluring compared to Auckland.  Economic conditions in the regions are also covered, with Benje Patterson showing the hottest growth is in secondary urban centres and tourism hotspots, with only some dairying and mining regions struggling.