It took the Spanhakes two months to buy the perfect house in Hamilton within their budget.

A prime piece of cliff-top will soon be home to New Zealand's most expensive apartments.

Proposed law is underhand and threat to race relations, argues Julie Chambers.

Bill English says the Goldman Sachs exaggerated chance of the housing market going bust.

COMMENT: House construction tallies far short of what Government announced.

COMMENT: The political house building bidding war continues, writes Barry Soper.

Neil Pitts says David Reid Homes removed dirt to avoid building a retaining wall

Bay homes judged in House of the Year Competition. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Residents of an Auckland leaky apartment building are facing a $17.5 million repair bill.

Families were woken by the racket of a noisy concrete pour at 5.30am as Auckland's frenzied building boom reaches fever pitch.

Private landlords are preparing to lobby the government to sell them unwanted state houses.

Tristram Clayton is joined by NZ Herald Property Editor Anne Gibson to discuss the rising price of construction and why buyers at an apartment project on Auckland’s North Shore were asked to pay tens of thousands of dollars more than the agreed price.

Prime Minister John Key has stood by comments that people need to look to apartments as a first home option - despite 35 Auckland property projects collapsing in the past year.

Auckland land earmarked for a school will be turned into a 51-home development by February - with the homes built so they can be carted off when a school is needed.

Bill English announces 1200 new homes replacing 300 state houses in Northcote, Auckland

Watch NZH focus: The rocket ship that is the New Zealand housing market has shown little sign of losing impetus in the past few months. Tristram Clayton talks to QV national spokesperson Andrea Rush.

Labour's housing spokesman is demanding a state of emergency over the housing crisis.

Watch NZ Herald Focus: Auckland's Unitary Plan is the new rulebook telling people what can be built where and how high. Aucklanders will be able to go the Auckland Council website, type in their address and find out what the or Unitary Planmeans for them.

Land development is a long and capital-intensive process and in some cases this is holding back the rate of building new houses, reports Anne Gibson.

Councillor Jan Sedgwick on why Te Kauwhata is a good choice for Auckland house buyers

Te Kauwhata is drawing Auckland house buyers forced from their home town by spiraling prices. Developer Ryan Castles on what's available to home hunters

In NZ Herald Focus today - John Key's land tax plan may catch Kiwis buying from overseas and Donald Trump has slammed Ted Cruz and John Kasich’s as "weak" and "pathetic." Also Beyonce has proved once again, she is without equal in the pop realm

New Zealand needs more tradies - and women are being urged to take up the tools to help address a looming shortage.

Kiwis spending more on dining out helped electronic card spending rise in January.

Fletcher executives will face protests from a small Maori community in Mangere when they attend a planning hearing tomorrow for a proposed new housing project.

Ngarimu Blair, deputy chairman of Ngati Whatua Orakei Trust talks to NZ Herald about 30 new whanau houses, built by the hapu for descendants. The first families shift into these Orakei places next month.

A lawsuit against building products maker James Hardie Industries has lost its bid to let potential plaintiffs join after a Dec. 31 cut-off date.

While land can be used more or less efficiently, the supply of well-located sites is fixed and the only response to increasing demand is a price increase, writes Zbigniew Dumienski and Nicholas Ross Smith,

The Council does not build the homes. That is the role of the private development and community housing sectors, writes Ree Anderson.