Labour's housing policy includes building 100,000 affordable homes in 10 years.

This rickety Ponsonby shack could be yours.

Building inspector calls out Manawatu District Council. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Lesley and George bought a house to escape tragedy. What they got was even more trauma.

Months of communication has not managed to resolve the tension between the two parties.

Stats NZ has produced new dat to show how many building consents are actually being built

Auckland's property slump is getting real now, writes Liam Dann.

Unconsented gas work may have caused the explosion.

Councils and apartment industry to look into prevalence of flammable cladding.

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.

Auckland could be facing a shortage of teachers, nurses and police officers if the city's house prices continue to rise beyond their means.

Finance Minister Bill English admits officials have looked into stamp duty on housing "two or three times".

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.