Investors are back in a heated Auckland property market and rapidly rising house prices are fuelling the fire.

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Mortgage interests over Queenstown's luxury Hilton Hotel have been sold in an $80.5 million deal involving Chinese businesses.

By next year more than half of all new homes built in Auckland will be part of apartment blocks or terraced homes.

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Chinese buyers could be back in the Auckland property market and if not now, they would be soon, experts say.

Sales data from New Zealand's biggest real estate agency showed a 17 per cent annual price jump for Auckland and Northland.

Auckland's housing "bubble" is worsening inequality, says Salvation Army.

Auckland property values fell last month, but the market's still surging in many parts of New Zealand.

Property market posts first monthly fall in more than a year, while homeowners refinance. Auckland values dipped, while Wellington saw strong gains.

Producer who has worked with Lorde and Katy Perry is selling a former air force bungalow just seven months after buying it for record $1.6 million.

Auckland property values fell last month, says QV, as new rules dented investor demand.

An Auckland property specialist with links to Chinese investment community predicts a huge inflow of capital into Auckland's property market this year.

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Auckland is one of the world's least affordable cities to buy a home. See here the homes that you can get for the median price around the world.

The latest QV stats revealed that Auckland's house value increases slowed to almost snail's pace last month.

Quotable Value figures out tomorrow are expected to show a cooling in prices in December.

Auckland housing affordability has improved slightly - but the city is now 59 per cent less affordable than the rest of New Zealand.

Auckland residents and ratepayers can now see if their suburbs are destined for new multi-storey developments.

Auckland Council is understood to be releasing maps tomorrow showing large swathes of suburban Auckland being rezoned for multiple townhouses and apartments.

Interest rates might be sinking but council rates are rising and that could drive rents up.

Housing's perfect storm as cost of renting a typical home in Auckland hits new high.

In a raging property market, it's possible to have a million-dollar home and no cash, writes Joanna Mathers.

ANZ, Westpac, Kiwibank and BNZ have now cut mortgage rates after the Reserve Bank reduced the OCR to a record low of 2.5 per cent.

More than 11 new retirement villages will need to be built annually to cater for our aging population.

A $50 million-plus housing project at Albany identified as the site of a shoddy-building video has been issued with four notices by Auckland Council to fix work.

Auckland's property market showed signs of slowing last month, with a 7.7 per cent fall in sales and new listings dropping by a similar amount.