Home affairs: New Zealanders forced to turn to dating sites to find a mortgage mate

Tinder profiles reveal desperate reality of trying to buy a home as survey shows housing is the number one concern for Kiwis, ranked above Covid

It is a truth universally acknowledged," Jane Austen wrote in 1813, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." Lose the gender binary, swap the fortune for half of a mortgage deposit and you have a maxim for our times.

Two-hundred years later, young New Zealanders are still seeking partners to improve their otherwise-stagnant economic prospects, and as the country's housing crisis worsens, more prospective first-time buyers are appealing to Tinder for a union that might assist them in acquiring a house.