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".

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

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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,

Serious weathertightness issues have been found at the popular Eastcliffe Retirement Village in Orakei and repairs to the buildings will cost $12 million and take five years to fix.

Wheeler cited rising consent numbers as a bright spot in the Auckland housing sector when he gave his post-OCR briefing.

An expert report to Auckland Council suggests a huge shortfall in the amount of affordable terraced housing likely to be built over the next 30 years.

Tenants' rights groups have welcomed plans to insulate all rental properties, but nearly 100,000 would be exempt where it was impossible to retro-fit insulation.

Housing supply in Auckland will not be a 2017 election issue simply because a lot of the issues highlighted and debated over the past few years will be well addressed or advanced by then, writes James Kellow.

The Government has fast-tracked the building of a further 1000 houses and apartments at Hobsonville Pt and about 300 of those will cost less than $550,000.

Three ministers is not enough, writes Toby Manhire. "To have a hope of slaying the many heads of the housing crisis hydra, there may need to be even more new ministers appointed."

Shoddy buildings are going up in Auckland with workers encountering serious problems and inspection fails at some sites.

The latest round in the Government’s fight to control soaring Auckland house prices has begun in earnest.

Nick Smith has defended his plans to free up crown land in Auckland to build new homes despite claims people could end up living on top of cemeteries.

Desperate home-buyers have resorted to sleeping in cars overnight in the hope of securing one of 12 sections when they go up for sale this morning.