It is moving day and you are all loaded up, excited to shift into your newly purchased house. You are expecting the settlement to go through at lunchtime but no call from your lawyer comes. RICKY WILSON/STUFF Auckland law firm director Jan McNamara wants to see more protections for first home buyers of new-build properties. (Video first screened April 11, 2022)On the purchaser’s side, you need to wait until the money comes in from the bank, for example. The next 15% were done by about 2pm and then it was about the last 5% that were settled after 3pm.

Source: Stuff May 25, 2022 10:10 UTC