Show Notes
For decades, New Zealand’s love affair with property has pulled everyday investors into schemes that promise certainty and deliver risk. Over and over again, the same story.
In the final episode of The Fall of the House of Du Val, Maria Slade asks whether this cycle is finally starting to break.
She presents the features of a fringe investment to first-year university students to test a simple idea. Are they more financially literate than their parents, or are we raising the next generation of willing believers?
The Retirement Commissioner lays out her Five Golden Rules for Mum and Dad investors, cutting through decades of property mythology with uncomfortable clarity.
For Du Val investors still owed $64 million, the outlook remains bleak. And yet, group founder Kenyon Clarke vows "I'll be back".
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Host, researcher, writer: Maria Slade Producer: Hamish Williams Lead Sound Design: Mick Andrews Additional Sound Design: Lara Healy Executive Producers: Jane Yee and Duncan Bridgeman
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More from The Fall of the House of Du Val
For decades, property has been sold to New Zealanders as a sure path to financial security. But history tells a more complicated story.
As rumours swirled of work stalling on Du Val sites due to non-payment, subcontractors were left demanding answers. What they got instead were tense meetings and vague promises.
Maria Slade speaks to an investor who lost tens of thousands in Du Val about why she ignored the red flags.
A big-talking showman and his charismatic wife: Who are Kenyon and Charlotte Clarke?
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