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Owners say dream shattered after Kāinga Ora buys 35 neighbouring homes

Homes about providing for need, Barrett Homes says.

Home-building trend remains soft, new house consents fall 22%

High interest rates and increased costs drive softness in the new home consent data.

Exploding liability: Fletcher paying $168m for Perth pipe disaster

Iplex will pay 80%, Western Australian Government to pay 20% to help homeowner victims.

Hundreds likely to be sleeping in cars after leaving emergency housing

About 200 whānau who are unaccounted for are probably sleeping in cars, garages.

Letters: Cynical state of building houses without sewers; Kiwis’ Am Cup divorce

OPINION: 'Wellington is no longer fit for purpose as New Zealand’s capital.'

Bank-switching among mortgage holders hits record high

The Commerce Commission believes banks could still make it cheaper for customers to leave.

Du Val Group: High Court to decide if interim receivership documents can be made public

Judge prepares to hear arguments in Hamilton on Monday.

$48m spent on Kāinga Ora social housing development, but site still sits empty

Kāinga Ora’s taking another look at the plans due to 'significant cost escalation'.

Villagers win fight against prominent wine grower over controversial alpine subdivision

'We would have been looking at Coronation Street which is not why we chose to be here.'

'It takes a village': Far North’s biggest community housing development to open

Te Kohekohe will provide 60 homes in an area where accommodation is in short supply.

Diana Clement: How ethical are your KiwiSaver investments?

OPINION: KiwiSaver funds have quietly invested in industries that cause significant harm.

Builder Kiel Rangi keeps licence after skipping out on $70k botch-up

None of the walls were straight and all the weatherboards had been put on wrong.

Homelessness 'not generic to Whanganui'

'If the problem was so easy to fix, we would have done it by now.'

Sewage trucked away from hundreds of Auckland homes with no proper connection

Summer is potentially going to be really smelly, one homeowner says.

Waiheke Island facing 'most acute housing crisis' of anywhere in New Zealand

Businesses and home owners are split on what to make of the crisis.

Explained: What you need to know about Du Val group issues

Who is behind the group, and why did the FMA start investigating it?