INTERACTIVE: Confidential maps show a big squeeze in some of Auckland's poshest and poorest streets.

Economists at Westpac and ASB forecast a drop in the OCR to 2 per cent next year.

Twenty years ago they bought a 4ha lifestyle block in Whenuapai's Brigham Creek Rd for $285,000. This month they sold it for $7 million.

Just imagine if someone told you the ratepayers of Auckland and the taxpayers of New Zealand were giving billions of dollars to the wealthiest property owners.

We all know what's it's like to have no self-control in the two Fs - that's food and finances.

Auckland tenants could be in for a New Year shock.

A new housing ventilation scheme aims to improve the state of housing for rental properties.

Saddling yourself with debt for poor gross yield is dopey, says expert.

Westpac New Zealand expects Auckland's heated housing market to cool following regulatory changes.

The Government has set its sights on New Zealand cities' urban planning rules as part of its drive to improve housing affordability.

From November 1, people borrowing to buy a residential investment property in Auckland will need at least a 30 per cent deposit, the Reserve Bank has decreed.

Official cash rate to remain at 2.75 per cent but bank worried about effects of China slowdown.

Once upon a time, everyone pitched their tents on the lawn and shared a loo. Now, writes Joanna Mathers, big business is taking over.

An "alarming" number of landlords remain largely ignorant of new Reserve Bank LVR rules which demand Auckland investors have 30 per cent deposits.

Auckland residential rents have risen by an average of $2000 over the last year - a 9 per cent hike.

Interests associated with marina investor and developer Simon Herbert have bought Auckland's Pine Harbour Marina for $22 million.

$50 million-plus housing project in Auckland has been identified by a property investor as the site of shoddy building.

Moves to take the heat out of the Auckland housing market appear to be having an effect.

Falling interest rates and static prices is making Auckland housing more affordable, say Massey University lecturers.

My town actually went backwards in the last QV figures, with one real estate company listing a solid three-bedroom home for $45,000, writes Mark Ebrey.

If an investment fund started buying up NZ dairy farms and dairy factories and wanted to staff them with workers imported from low wage countries this should ring alarm bells, writes Peter Lyons.

Evidence of a cooling in the Auckland property market is growing - but there's plenty of reasons to think there may be life left in the boom yet.

Auction clearance rates have dropped and attendance rates are down as soaring prices flatten out.

I am in KiwiSaver and have decided to pump funds into it until I buy my first home at about 65.

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.