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Joel Cayford: Prudent councils shouldn't bank on growth to pay bills
It is of concern that while individual home owners and property investors are being encouraged to reduce debt and increase personal savings.
It is of concern that while individual home owners and property investors are being encouraged to reduce debt and increase personal savings.
Banks again are offering big loans to property investors, but they come with a warning to those who assume they can leverage their way into high returns.
The median house price in New Zealand rose to a record $380,000 last month as sales jumped by almost a third compared to October 2011, according to new figures.
The recent debate over how much of our farmland is overseas owned shows very large differences in estimates, writes Bill Rosenberg.
I own a major airport, three retirement village operators, a chain of petrol stations, two power companies, two insurance companies, two banks and an iconic fast food operator. I don't own a house and never have.
A Chinese company's bid to buy the Crafar dairy farms passed its final legal hurdle today after an attempt to block the deal in the Supreme Court was dismissed.
A lower-than-usual number of new house listings for this time of year resulted in record house prices last month, according to figures out today.
The Chinese conglomerate that bought the Crafar Farms this year is not ruling out the possibility of buying more New Zealand dairy land to fuel its exports to China.
On the face of it there were some positive responses to the 25 recommendations of the Hunn Report on the leaky-building crisis, writes David Kernohan,
The number of mortgagee sales in the first half of this year is close to figures last seen in the recession in 2009.
North Shore businessman and Rich-lister John Copson has garnered local government support for his big plans to transform Takapuna.
More than half of Aucklanders think first-time home buyers should turn their back on the city to get on the property ladder, a Herald-DigiPoll survey shows.
Eleven Auckland suburbs now have average house values of $1 million or more - and New Zealand could have its first $2 million suburb by Christmas.
It could have been one of the world's cheapest homes with no reserve price at auction. Instead the three-bedroom Hamilton property sold for a respectable price.