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Tenant fights for Kainga Ora to pay after home damaged in storm
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'Looked good on paper': Apartment buyer wants $50k deposit back after development company liquidation
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Stink over sewage from Auckland housing development goes to court
Watercare plans to truck sewage away at three other housing developments.
Du Val's legal tsunami: eight court cases pending against businesses
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A Du Val business valued at $431m? Receiver notes no independent valuation
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Developer Shundi Customs vs builder China Construction in High Court over $300m Seascape
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MSD cuts funding for charity working with emergency housing tenants
Emerge Aotearoa provides support for families in emergency housing.
Property market springing back – but not in Northland
Experts say house prices have finally bottomed out and are on the up... elsewhere.
Concern over housing costs hits record high across rich nations
Financial Times: Rising mortgage costs, rents meet building shortage to stoke crisis.
New house-building business couldn't survive downturn: $8.9m liabilities
KPMG will now go about realising assets in an attempt to repay company debts.
Inside Economics: When will house prices start rising... and by how much?
OPINION: After the rate cut, what now for house prices? And what is geoeconomics?
Opinion: Councils don't have a magic money tree - but central govt does
OPINION: Central govt pockets about $300,000 per new home in taxes - for no money down.
'Unfair' sky high rents hit pensioners hard
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Property Insider: Seascape adjudication decision awards $33m; Carrie Bradshaw index
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'We can't sleep': Couple fear for future, loan on Du Val unit axed
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Du Val downfall: From champagne, private jets to receivership and $250m debt
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Plans for new affordable senior housing in Flaxmere
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JLL retirement village study: population up, companies adjust growth
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Darcy Ungaro: Is this the right time to buy a house?
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