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Overseas Investment Office: buying NZ land as a foreign buyer

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The Overseas Investment Office administers the Overseas Investment Act. Purchases of sensitive land, significant business assets or fishing quota by overseas persons generally need consent.

Benefit to New Zealand tests examine jobs, exports, environmental outcomes and housing supply. Forestry and carbon partnerships add specialist criteria.

Residential land ban for overseas persons (with exceptions) sits alongside OIO — do not assume company structures bypass scrutiny; look-through rules apply.

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