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'Big changes' forecast for peninsula: Council seeks residents' views

Tauranga City Council is seeking community feedback as it plans the next 50 years.

New record for Ōhope house sale

"The market in Ōhope was still going strong."

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.

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'.