Community guidelines
Rules that keep the community useful and fair. By posting or commenting you agree to them.
The Property HQ community is a place for anyone - at home or abroad - to share what they've learnt about buying, renting, letting and investing in property. These rules keep it useful and fair. By posting or commenting you agree to them.
Be respectful
Disagree with ideas, not people. No insults, threats, harassment, or hate speech of any kind.
Don't accuse named people, agents or agencies
Share your experience, but don't name or identify a person, estate agent, agency, landlord, tenant or business and accuse them of wrongdoing. If you believe someone broke the law, report it to the right body - for example the Property Practitioners Regulatory Authority (PPRA), the Rental Housing Tribunal, or the police.
Keep other people's personal information private
Don't post anyone else's name, phone number, email, ID number, home address, photos or documents without their permission. Think carefully before sharing your own.
Deal analyses are opinions, not advice
Deal posts show one member's own analysis. The suburb, price, rent and yield figures are that member's assumptions and may be wrong or out of date. Nothing in the community is financial, legal or tax advice - check the numbers yourself and speak to a qualified professional before you buy.
No spam or scams
No advertising, referral links, "guaranteed returns", requests for deposits or money, or anything misleading. Never pay anyone you met here without checking them out independently.
Only post what you have the right to share
Don't copy other people's articles, photos or listings without permission.
How reporting works
Signed-in members can use Report on any post or comment. Moderators review every report. When several different members report the same post or comment, it's hidden straight away until a moderator has looked at it - the author sees it marked "hidden pending review". Moderators then either remove it or bring it back.
Take-down requests
You don't need an account to ask us to remove content. If a post or comment is defamatory, invades your privacy, infringes your copyright, harasses someone or is a scam, send us a take-down notice using the report content form. This is the take-down notice process under section 77 of the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act. Tell us who you are, where the content is, and what is wrong with it, and confirm that you believe in good faith that your information is correct. We'll review it promptly and may remove the content while we look into it.
What happens to removed content
When you delete your own post, its text is wiped straight away. When a moderator removes a post or comment, we keep its text privately for up to 90 days in case there's a dispute, and then delete it.
We may remove content or suspend accounts that break these guidelines.