24th June 2025 LINZ / OIOThe average processing time for overseas investment decisions has dropped from 71 working days in the last financial year to 28 working days.
24th February 2025 Investment / OIOThe reforms would allow the government to make decisions in just 15 days for all investments aside from residential land, farmland and fishing quota, unless contrary to NZ’s national interest.
7th June 2024 Investment / OIOAssociate Finance Minister David Seymour has issued a directive to Land Information New Zealand to speed up the process for overseas investment applications.
1st February 2024 DB / OIO / SealordFood and beverage acquisitions with pricetags potentially totalling around $500m have been signed off by the Overseas Investment Office.
1st December 2022 OIO / WineThe Overseas Investment Office has granted consent to Craigmore Sustainables Management Group to purchase 234 hectares of Blenheim land for a new vineyard.
2nd November 2022 M&A / OIOA new majority owner for Waiheke Island’s Stonyridge Vineyard has plans for export growth.
9th September 2021 Lion / OIOBeverage business Lion New Zealand has been fined $10,000 for breaching the Overseas Investment Act when it bought a South Island leasehold farm in 2017.
1st June 2021 OIOThe Overseas Investment Office has given the green-light to the sale of a New Plymouth goat farm to a partnership owned by descendants of American Peter H Kuyper.
1st June 2021 OIO / WineAustralia’s Joval Wine Group is set to expand its Nanny Goat vineyard in Central Otago after being cleared to buy a $1.05m neighbouring property by the Overseas Investment Office.
14th October 2020 Development / OIOHappy Valley Nutrition has secured Overseas Investment Office approval to develop a dairy factory in the Waikato.
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