Real estate chief says NZ caught in a three-way squeeze: a listings shortage combined with high immigration and worsened by low new-housing starts.

Everyone who cares about the future of the economy, interest rates and house prices needs to circle two dates in their calendars this year.

COMMENT: New data on foreign buyers in the housing market is not going resolve the big debate on the issue just yet, writes Liam Dann.

Nearly 60 per cent of Auckland houses sold to foreign buyers went to Chinese investors, new data shows.

Barfoot and Thompson reports the slowest April in four years, while Quotable Value says values were up 2.1pc over the past three months.

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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.

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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.

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.

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

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

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.