Barfoot & Thompson says high number of applications is unusual for this time of the year.

Foreign investment is not a black and white issue. Too often the populist reaction to the issue is knee-jerk and xenophobic.

For decades Karangahape Rd's eclectic tenants have jostled together. Now, those who love it fear Auckland's most vibrant street is under threat.

The words "double Grammar zone" plastered across a real estate billboard is enough to make any red-blooded agent salivate, writes Bernard Hickey.

On the face of it, inheriting a property sounds great. But there can be costs to be aware of, warns Diana Clement

Land bankers have become increasingly active around Auckland's fringe - many waiting to cash in on areas earmarked for future development.

The IRD IS proposing a withholding tax of 33 percent of a vendor's gain on a sale, or 10 percent of the total purchase price.

Sir Michael Bear visited Auckland today to raise interest in investing in £100 billion worth of regeneration projects.

After years of increases, New Zealand rents stalled last month, says Trade Me Property.

Auckland developer Tony Gapes of Redwood Group is poised to sell three-quarters of New Zealand's most affordable intensive housing project to Chinese interests.

Regional leaders say they want foreign investment, but not in their houses, despite claims by Prime Minister John Key to the contrary.

One of Auckland's most upmarket new apartments hits the market tomorrow, although it is not yet built.

Figures showing bank loans to investors outnumbering first-home buyers by three to one are hard evidence of what has undoubtedly been happening for a long time.

Exclusive: A wealthy couple who have donated generously to the National Party are cashing up more than $26 million of property in Auckland.

Two major Australian banks have lifted interest rates for property investors in a bid to cool the country's property boom.

There is a important debate to be had about foreign investment in NZ because we are a small, open economy and a big shift in global trends can have a disproportionate impact, writes Liam Dann.

A 12m-wide sliver of land wedged between two houses is up for sale in Ponsonby.

Colliers' advertising in China for Auckland apartments talks up soft rules.

Both an open door and tight controls on foreign home ownership have dangers, but with no figures we can't have a debate.

One of New Zealand's most prominent and outspoken economists, Shamubeel Eaqub, has resigned from the NZIER.

Exactly where does the housing ladder lead, asks Brian Fallow - to financial security, or to years and years of debt servitude?

The number of French interested in buying Kiwi land has grown enough to warrant one locally based Frenchman to establish a French real-estate business.

John Armstrong takes a look at the rules surrounding property investment by foreign nationals in other countries around the world.

The Government's proposed foreign house buyer law change could damage NZ's international reputation, a Parliamentary select committee heard yesterday.

Labour's Mt Roskill MP Phil Goff admits some of the constituents in his ethnically diverse electorate could be put off by his party's comments on Chinese housing investors.

Comedian weighs in on the property debate: "Being Chinese in New Zealand always puts you on the back foot."

A property investor says Kiwis asking for inflated prices are to blame for the overheated housing market - not foreign buyers.