The answer depends on your motives, writes Bruce Morris.

Once notorious, now fashionable, reports Ashley Campbell.

Once again, there's no stopping Herne Bay.

Rises and falls in house prices don't affect everyone, all the time, says registered valuer Glenda Whitehead.

Local loyalty shines through here, writes Ashley Campbell.

Bruce Morris sifts through the statistics to pinpoint the North Island’s most expensive streets... and others of more humble heritage.

The news is good - and bad - says the Bank of New Zealand's Tony Alexander.

For many of us, Tokoroa is a place you drive through... quickly. But the timber town has heart, and house prices to make Auckland eyes water, writes Bruce Morris.

Struggling Allied Farmers says it has settled the about $27m sale of stage two of Queenstown's Five Mile property development early.

Property values in NZ have continued to decline gradually over the past few months as market sentiment remains cautious, according to the August report by QV.

One-time factory worker Zhang Xin rode China's property boom.

Allied Farmers chief executive Rob Alloway has resigned, following chairman John Loughlin out of a firm whose finance arm is in receivership.

Bad loans to bars, hotels, furniture makers, property investors and even a state house builder wiped out at least $100 million from South Canterbury Finance.

Questions need to be asked of the former management of failed company South Canterbury Finance, says the Shareholders Association.

A real estate agent who tampered with a sale and purchase agreement to increase her stake in a commission split has been fined.

About 100 staff at the Auckland's five-star Westin hotel are losing their jobs as most of its rooms are shut down.

Westin Hotel's receivers are planning to shed up to 100 staff, throwing Rugby World Cup visitor plans into disarray, say investors in the property.