Budget 2022: First-home buyer loan scheme shaken up
Big jump in some price caps for aspiring first home owners - but prices vary nationwide.
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Focus: Why some property values have dropped over the last quarter
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Staff leave council building inspection team, demand outweighing capacity
An average home needs 11 to 15 inspections throughout a build.
Online building products platform inks $35m capital raise
Milot Zeqiri and Brittany Gribben co-founded ArchiPro in 2014.
Ghost suburb: Land ready for 1000 Auckland homes - they just can't get water
One woman's home was built 16 months ago. Yet she can't move in.
The missing $300k: Families and tradies left in lurch by company collapse
Tradies and others who worked on Xmas Day are yet to be paid.
House prices 'most vulnerable in a long time'
Investment adviser says analysts will not be shocked by 'meaningful' fall in prices.
Ed Sheeran's bizarre building addition to 'Sheeranville'
Ed Sheeran's latest building structure might hint at his final resting place.
Housing bill to be watered down
Labour and National's landmark townhouse bill will be watered down.
Finance experts' verdict on $350 million Winton IPO
What's the reaction to developer Chris Meehan's audacious NZX/ASX listing plans?
Will house prices keep rising? All your housing market questions answered
Tony Alexander on the forces at play in NZ's housing market.
Spike in broken bones from DIY leads to warning from professionals
More people are breaking bones doing DIY projects around the home in Hawke's Bay.
Passion project: Ex-All Black and billionaire partner demolish waterfront home for new mansion
Separate office, spa and cinema room with a projector equipment anteroom planned.
Auckland councillor in hot water after comparing housing policy to 'gang rape'
Christine Fletcher's comments offended multiple councillors.
Labour and National's housing plans for Auckland likened to 'Soviet-style blocks'
The focus is bulk and location, not architecture and design, says a council planner.
Housing plan will turn Auckland into an ugly city, says heritage group
'This will be a green light for developers to put up cheap, badly designed buildings.'
Simon Wilson's Glasgow Diary: Glendowie to the rescue
Today's news about the weather, ahead of the world's most important climate meeting yet.
Is Auckland walking into another 'leaky homes' disaster?
Experts warn that first-time developers are cutting corners in the current hot market.
NZ's biggest builder celebrates 20,000th home
"We never set out to be the biggest home builder in New Zealand" - Grant Porteous.
Robertson and Orr see house prices becoming more 'sustainable'
"There's a shared view that house price growth has been unsustainable," Robertson said.
New building consents: How the major regions compare, and why Wellington is lagging
New stock not coming online to the same degree as other cities a 'cause for concern'.
Shelly Bay housing plan: Council applies to remove caveat
Wellington City Council has applied to remove a caveat registered at Shelly Bay.
'Ratbag' property developers ask to buy houses damaged in tornado 24hrs later
Shirley Corles-Davis is still angry at being asked if she wanted to sell her house.
Leaky homes case: Company had no insurance for weathertightness disasters - auditor
Asset stripping allegation strikes James Hardie leaky home lawsuit.
Public housing demand 'increasing significantly'
Councils say more new builds are 'not achievable' without support.
Auckland man facing $315,000 bill after house built in wrong place
Neighbouring developer sues homeowner after a building consent error.
Small Business: Christchurch paint firm seeks to raise $1.2m capital
Former nurse says raise will enable her firm to grow its distribution.
Covid construction chaos: Why NZ's building industry is struggling to cope
Skyrocketing costs, shortages and delays: here's how to beat the building blues.
Creditor action pushes classroom, state house builder into administration
The business has built 88 education buildings, 50 homes and 348 modules.
Brooke van Velden: New housing laws hurt those they try to help
OPINION: Govt's latest move on housing has divided Kiwis when its ideas need to unite us.
Owner of $756k Sydney 'half-house' hits out at builders
A Sydney man claims he wasn't given 'any notice' regarding the change in plans.
'It's a mess': Builders of bizarre 'half-house' explain what went wrong
Sydney dad Bishnu Aryal says he 'nearly fainted' when he saw his new $750k house.
No toilets, topless calendars: Women tradies face sexism on the job
Woman tradies say sexism comments are a daily occurrence on the job.
National's solution to housing shortage woes
National proposes requiring councils to zone more land for housing immediately.