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Hilton hotel in $80m mortgage deal
Mortgage interests over Queenstown's luxury Hilton Hotel have been sold in an $80.5 million deal involving Chinese businesses.

Apartment builds to outstrip houses by 2017
By next year more than half of all new homes built in Auckland will be part of apartment blocks or terraced homes.

NZ's newest million-dollar suburbs
Which suburbs now have a median house price of more than a million dollars?

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

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

Auckland slides, but rest of NZ up
Property market tables turned - check your region to see how it fares.

Playing housing lottery
Auckland University property researcher Dr Michael Rehm said the figures showed that long-term homeowners in the "hot spots" of Auckland could cash up but people living elsewhere had fewer options.

House prices drive out 38,000
Auckland's housing "bubble" is worsening inequality, says Salvation Army.

Lorde video guru makes quick sale
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 down
Auckland property values fell last month, says QV, as new rules dented investor demand.

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

Short, sharp lesson due on prices
Making a movie about collateralised debt obligations and credit default swaps that is both compelling and accurate is quite some achievement.

World's priciest 'average' homes
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.

Leading questions: Roger MacDonald
Roger MacDonald, the new chief executive of Auckland Council's Panuku Development Auckland, gives his take on the year ahead.

Auckland property tipped to calm this year
Auckland house prices are expected to rise at more modest levels in 2016 as lending curbs for investors offset likely declines in mortgage rates.

Auckland house values up less than 1pc
The latest QV stats revealed that Auckland's house value increases slowed to almost snail's pace last month.

Auckland's new zoning maps released
Auckland residents and ratepayers can now see if their suburbs are destined for new multi-storey developments.

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

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

$500 a week: Auckland's rent blow
Housing's perfect storm as cost of renting a typical home in Auckland hits new high.

Property: Rich and poor at the same time?
In a raging property market, it's possible to have a million-dollar home and no cash, writes Joanna Mathers.

Banks cut mortgage rates
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.

Retirement village boom tipped in new report
More than 11 new retirement villages will need to be built annually to cater for our aging population.

Shoddy work: Notices issued to fix building
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 property market slows
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.

What will happen in your backyard?
INTERACTIVE: Confidential maps show a big squeeze in some of Auckland's poshest and poorest streets.

Drop in OCR to 2 per cent tipped for 2016
Economists at Westpac and ASB forecast a drop in the OCR to 2 per cent next year.

Bernard Hickey: In hole for millions
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.