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'Record' sales: Tauranga's luxury house market running hot
Luxury market performing in complete contrast to the low-to-mid-range market.
Have your say on future of Tauranga's new suburb
Information display open at Tauranga Crossing from May 20-29.
Is this the right time to buy? Shift to buyer market, prices drop 5 per cent
Agents say the property market has "dramatically" shifted in the buyers' favour.
How a man's lonely death led to housing for the elderly homeless
Elderly man found four days after he died.
Simon Bridges' $3.9m Tauranga home flops at auction
Politician's family home still on the market - but at a fixed price.
'Big changes' forecast for peninsula: Council seeks residents' views
Tauranga City Council is seeking community feedback as it plans the next 50 years.
Felix Desmarais: Fixing the housing crisis should be about what is right, not popular
Opinion: Labour is playing to win elections, not make the changes it believes in.
Options for future for Tauranga Racecourse, golf club land revealed
Tauranga's housing crisis faces major hurdle - its community
'Total insanity': Seymour slams Govt over $70m land purchase
But housing minister says private developers would not deliver the housing Tauranga needs
Derelict landbanked houses 'a travesty', mayor says
'There must be about 150 that are just lying idle, rotting into the ground.'
'Abusive behaviour': Rejected rental tenants lash-out
Frustrations run high as homes become ever harder to find and price hikes 'crippling'
Revealed: Seven motels paid more than $1m each for emergency housing
But one of the moteliers says she would rather have her motel empty.
'Staggering': The city where houses are earning more in a month than most people earn in a year
The latest REINZ data shows the city's house price have reached a record $1,050,000.
Letters: Protests ignore the rights and freedoms of the majority
Our readers have their say.
Landlords say tax loophole is 'bribe' to switch to social housing
Tax breaks a huge incentive for landlords to evict hard workers - rent to social housing.
Homeless say trying to survive is a 'full-time job'
Men who have been rough sleepers for years speak about their struggles.
Man who lived in cave among million-dollar houses has a new home
But he says a family should have been priority for the house.
$300m partnership: NZ Super Fund and Classic Group to deliver thousands of new homes
NZ Super Fund: 'We believe our capital can help create a break-through moment.'
'It's going gangbusters': Is your property earning more than you?
If your property is in Mount Maunganui, the answer could be yes.
'It's in our DNA to buy property': So how vulnerable is Tauranga to a significant property downturn?
CoreLogic analysed how an economic downturn or market condition change may impact property
The best in Bay architecture recognised at awards
Three Bay of Plenty architects have won regional awards.
Tourism boss sorry after saying Rotorua issues 'massive opportunity' for Tauranga
But the notion has been met with confusion and disappointment from sulphur city leaders.
How rising building costs are hitting first-home buyers
Uncertainty making homeownership 'that much more difficult' for first-home buyers.
Housing crisis: City leaders eyeing land for affordable housing
Council seeking feedback on a plan to use 22.4 hectares for affordable housing.
Squatters, overcrowding products of Tauranga's housing shortage
'No clear answers' to Tauranga's housing shortage and affordability crisis, says council.
'It's a vicious cycle': Is this the hardest place to buy a house in NZ?
Tauranga is one of the tightest housing markets in New Zealand right now.
Commissioners' plea: Housing shortfall a challenge too big to face alone
Tauranga City Council's commissioners have pleaded to the Government for help.
New houses will cost more: Tauranga's 'crazy prices' put businesses at risk
Land supply shortages don't help in this region ... it needs to be more affordable.
Solo mum goes from 'gutter' to beachfront emergency housing
Motel owner: 'It's a supreme location, doesn't mean that it's too good for MSD people'.
The rise of Judea: 'I can't imagine living anywhere else'
A spotlight on Judea and why it is major drawcard for new residents.
Leaving a generation to the 'scrap heap': Child poverty soars
"If we give up, say it's too hard, we are consigning a generation to the scrap heap."
$6.5m in unpaid rates owed to Western Bay of Plenty council
The council says a significant portion of unpaid rates is related to Māori freehold land.