I got this email overnight from a listener.

What do you make of it?

Hi Duncan, well...they're here !

We live in Hamilton, not first home buyer...more 7 or 8th...but , having recently sold our place, kids left home we want to down-size a bit, quit the mortgage and have a bit more free time to travel and fish.

However, it is not working out as we planned...you see, we went to 5 open homes on the weekend, Saturday and Sunday, in a very average, very working class hero part of the Tron, and all the open homes were besieged by Asian (read that as Chinese) people.

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One open home was with a Chinese ethnic Estate agent and you would think you were in Shanghai.(((

There was me and 2 other dare I say it, white kiwis....the rest Chinese. And I know this because they all conversed with the agent in mandarin.

Now, one open home toady , Sunday , was a real eye opener...

A Chinese couple pulled up in a screech, litteraly leapt from their car, raced inside...don't bother taking your shoes off, pushed in front of a looker and the Agent, and demanded he accept their " offer of $390,000 now, before this goes ona to da auction, yes !"

No, its going to auction.

"No no, you no unnerstan...we make offer now"

"NO !!!!"

With that, a young Chinese man of mid to late twenties appeared at my elbow, absolutely going off at the Chinese people.

I looked at him and said, "Aren't you Chinese?"

"Yes, I am", he replied. "However, I have been here 12 years, studied Kiwi English and have residency, I also am a ????? at the ????????.

"OK, what are you saying about these Chinese couple then?".

He said, "I have been walking around behind these two, same as I did at another home 20 minutes ago...they are from Auckland, they have several houses up there, but now they are finding it too expensive , so they are coming here and buying up literally sight unseen. The house across the road and down a bit, they bought it over the phone 12 minutes after it was listed and before being advertised on the open market. I know I am Chinese, but I have residency, a young family here, my wife and I both work, and we cannot even get a look in because of these effing Chinese jaffas((("

Suffice to say Duncan, the Chinese that wanted to make an offer, do not even live in NZ....they stay here 3-6 months of the year and do not have residency....

Also, my new mate the Chinese/kiwi fella, also told me that 4 carloads of Chinese come to Hamilton every weekend for open homes and try to , or do put offers in before a house goes to auction or in some cases , going on the open market., and that is just the ones he has seen in Hamilton....

Duncan, in Auckland it is a tidal wave no matter which way you look at it, and now it is the beginning of a tidal wave heading for the burbs....(Hamilton, Cambridge, Whangarei, etc)...heaven help the young first home buyers of our fair country.)))

PS: Don't give a stuff if your listeners think I am racist, i'm not, but this government needs to step in NOW, and fix this problem fast !!!!

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