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“In the two months since February 2026, petrol has increased 33.6 percent and diesel has increased 94.9 percent,” prices and deflators spokesperson Nicola Growden said.
Momentum is already visible across the region. Major infrastructure is underway, Tauranga’s city centre is being reshaped, and investment is flowing into housing, logistics, energy and value-add industries.
The market showed a steadier pace through April. The seasonally adjusted sales count declined 2.1% compared to March – a more moderate signal than the raw month-on-month drop of 21.2%, most of which is seasonal.
Just as the Opportunity Party’s policy came out, the OECD released their report on NZ’s economy, which included recommendations to more comprehensively tax gains from property and shares, and a windfall tax on capital gains from rezoning land.
GTIG additionally identified a growing trend toward “agentic workflows”, where autonomous frameworks are used to conduct reconnaissance and validate vulnerabilities at scale.
The report draws on a detailed analysis of 22 years (2001-23) of Stats NZ data from individual businesses to establish baseline competition measures for future monitoring.
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