The first question worth asking anyone who gives you property advice is who pays them. Most people won't tell you plainly. This page is our full answer, with nothing left out: every dollar the company receives, and every dollar it refuses.
Our only revenue is the fee a customer pays for a report they asked for. For a buyer, that fee is the same whether you buy the property, walk away from it, or never make an offer at all. For a seller, it is the same whatever you decide to do with the house. Nothing about our income changes based on what you decide — which is the only arrangement under which our conclusion can be trusted.
This is not a summary. It is the whole list. If a source of revenue is not on the left column, we do not have it.
| Source | Do we take it? | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Report fees paid by our customers | Yes | $99, $149 and $179 — the buyer, seller and investor reports. Our entire income. |
| Commission from real estate agents or agencies | Never | Not on a sale, not on a referral, not on a shared listing. |
| Referral fees from mortgage brokers or lenders | Never | We will happily name good ones. We are not paid to. |
| Commission or kickback from developers | Never | Including on new-build or off-plan stock. |
| Referral fees from building inspectors, surveyors or valuers | Never | Our reports tell you which checks to run. We earn nothing from who runs them. |
| Referral fees from lawyers or conveyancers | Never | Same principle. |
| Affiliate links or tracked links of any kind | Never | There are none on this website or in any report. |
| Selling or sharing your details as leads | Never | Your enquiry is not a product. See below. |
| Advertising or sponsored placement in reports | Never | No one can buy space in, or influence over, a report. |
| Payment to include, exclude or soften a finding | Never | The finding is the product. It is not for sale. |
A great deal of property guidance in New Zealand is free at the point of use because someone else is paying for it, and that someone is usually paid when you transact. The agent is paid by the vendor when the property sells. Plenty of "free" buying help is funded by lender or developer commissions that arrive only if you go through with it.
None of that is dishonest in itself, and many of those people are good at their jobs. But it does mean the advice has a direction built into it before anyone opens their mouth. The incentive doesn't have to be corrupt to be real.
We took the fee-only route because it is the only structure in which a report can end with the evidence doesn't support this price and cost us nothing to say. Roughly speaking, that is the most valuable report we produce.
When you send us a property, you are telling us something commercially valuable: that you are a motivated buyer, or a homeowner preparing to sell, in a particular suburb, with a particular budget. That information is worth money to agents, brokers and developers.
We do not sell it, share it, trade it or pass it on. Not to a partner, not to a "preferred supplier", not in aggregate, not anonymised. The only people who see your enquiry are the people who write your report.
We don't intend to take commission revenue, and the standing rule above is written to be hard to wriggle out of. But a promise is only worth something if it says what happens when it's broken.
If Current Analytics ever accepts any revenue from a party other than the customer buying the report, we will state it on this page, with the date, before we accept it. Not in a footnote, and not after the fact. Any report issued while such an arrangement existed would say so on its face.
That is the whole commitment. It is deliberately short, because commitments with conditions attached are not commitments.