She Owns This is a weekly New Zealand podcast about money, property and financial confidence.
Hosted by financial advisers Stevie and Nefe from Opes Partners, it’s for Kiwi women who want to build wealth but feel like most money advice isn’t really made for them.
Each episode breaks down money and property in plain English and gives one simple action listeners can take that week.
Because in NZ, women are still under-represented in property ownership — and this podcast is about changing that.
Disclaimer: This podcast is for general information only and is not financial advice.
What Can $500,000 Buy in NZ Property Right Now? Stevie Searched Trade Me So You Don't Have To
House price headlines say property is more affordable. So what does $500,000 actually buy across New Zealand right now? Stevie found six real listings and dug into the details the advertising copy leaves out.
In this episode:
Six real $500K property listings across Howick, Christchurch, Lower Hutt, Southland, Wellington and Auckland Central, compared side by side
Why a one-bedroom no-carpark apartment in Auckland has a 2.9% yield and almost no resale buyer pool
Why Linwood in Christchurch is one of the more sensible $500K buys on the list right now
Why Stokes Valley in Lower Hutt has seen the biggest house price fall since peak anywhere in NZ
The Wellington apartment with $10,000 a year in body corporate fees that's sold for less than it did in 2017
The Auckland Central listing that looks like incredible value until you spot the GST exclusion and the management lease locked in until 2028
Why bare land in Southland isn't an investment property, no matter how good the price looks
What the $500K market actually reveals about where NZ property is genuinely accessible right now, and where it only looks that way
The price is just the starting line. What it actually buys you is the real story.
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6 Oct 2026
Your Favourite Finance Hosts Are Mam-Splaining Financial Jargon
OCR, Swap Rates, Market Bubbles, Short Selling, Hedging and more.
The finance industry runs on jargon that is designed to make you feel like an outsider. This episode is the antidote. We decipher the terms, plain English, real analogies, and a rapid-fire format that actually makes it fun.
In this episode:
OCR explained: how the Reserve Bank uses it to control inflation and your mortgage rate
Swap rates: why your fixed mortgage rate is set by markets, not the Reserve Bank
Market bubbles: the dot-com crash and Nefe's rule of thumb for spotting hype
Mean reversion: why prices always come back to their historical average
Market capitalisation: small cap, mid cap, large cap, explained simply
Economic moats: why some companies are nearly impossible to compete with
Short selling: the handbag analogy and the GameStop story
Futures contracts: the carpet analogy and the turnkey building connection
The finance industry benefits from complexity. The actual concepts are not that hard. Here is the proof.
Women should own half the world. Come own it with us.
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29 Sept 2026
Buy Now, Pay More Later: How Afterpay and BNPL Are Quietly Wrecking Your Finances
New Zealanders paid $19.7 million in BNPL late fees in 2025. Afterpay's NZ revenue grew 17.4% - during a recession. And 1 in 5 users paid at least one late fee.
This episode of She Owns This explains exactly how these platforms are designed to work on your brain, and your wallet.
You'll learn:
How Afterpay, Zip, and Klarna actually make money in NZ
The NZ consumer data most people haven't seen
The three psychological tricks that make BNPL feel different from debt
Why $100 a fortnight in BNPL repayments redirected into an index fund at 8% average annual return could earn you
Buy Now Pay Later isn't free. It's deferred. And the cost of buying things this way instead of saving for them first shows up over years, not weeks.
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