One of the region's biggest real estate firms is expanding its reach to get to more Chinese buyers.

Booming migration extended its run of posting new records in June, though economists say it may have peaked.

Opposition parties say dire warning from ANZ chief executive about overheated house prices shows the market is in crisis.

Emotional and ideological contagion is becoming a more important source of systemic risk.

Medium IT salaries are down 2 per cent on increasing international job applicants.

COMMENT: Stephen Jennings' warning that "we are facing an iceberg" that deserves to shatter business complacency on housing.

Everyone seems to want to move to New Zealand, or is at least looking into the possibility.

More Australians are moving here than New Zealanders are going there and we're luring their families to happiness in the Canterbury

COMMENT: Candidates vying to replace the PM should keep in mind doing exactly what the voters said might not be wise.

COMMENT: The debate about migrant numbers in New Zealand is more complicated than people would have us believe.

Over the space of a week, Kaitangata has gone from being little known outside Otago to an unlikely international media darling.

World media have got the wrong end of the stick - forcing Kaitangata to remind potential new residents they'll have to pay to move south.

COMMENT: New Zealand's economic history matches the line chart for our net migration flow through the years, writes Liam Dann.

National is preparing for immigration to become a major election issue.

WATCH: New Zealand's migration gain per capita is currently running nearly three times as high as the UK.

New Zealand would take 150 refugees each year from Australian detention centres if asked to, Prime Minister says.

COMMENT: The economy's vital signs don't look too bad, at first glance.

COMMENT: New Zealand's economic miracle - the desire of people to come and live here - is showing signs of peaking.

Marking World Refugee Day, the Herald spoke to a refugee family who escaped from Laos to New Zealand 33 years ago, risking their lives to do so.

COMMENT: I spent a lot of last week with New Zealanders who are former refugees, migrants and followers of the Islamic faith. It was a week like no other.

Refugees will be getting a "five star" temporary first home when they arrive in NZ, says a former refugee who now works for Immigration New Zealand.

Yunjuan Li pleaded guilty to six charges of supplying false or misleading information to an immigration officer.

COMMENT: New Zealand's annual refugee intake of 750 was disgracefully low. An intake of 1000 is not much better.

COMMENT: In all the hullaballoo this week about New Zealand's record high migration, a strange fact has emerged.

Sellers of big ticket items like cars, boats and caravans say business is booming on the back of a strong economy and a wealth effect driven by rising property prices.

COMMENT: Population growth contributes to the country's productivity, available skills and demand. But not everyone or everywhere benefits.

Economist claims that cutting number of immigrants allowed into New Zealand could reduce Auckland house prices by a quarter within two years.

Immigration changes to entice migrants to settle in the regions are unlikely to make any real difference.

At first, the baby looked as "if it were still alive".

The Treasury warned that record levels of immigration could push New Zealanders out of low-skilled jobs, depress wages and increase housing pressures.