Dodgy real estate deals: How much can you trust what you’re told?
Buying a property can be fraught at the best of times.
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Majority of bidders had expressed a desire to demolish the house.
He offered to buy an Auckland house - when he couldn't pay, it cost him $429,000
Would-be buyer argued vendors should have accepted his lower offer, but he failed.
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Honesty about reason for selling brings in the buyers, agent says.
Tony Alexander: Investors are back and house prices are on the rise
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Vendors come clean on marriage splits to help sell their homes
"Untying the knot and unloading the lot."
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For sale: The Herne Bay villa with a movie star secret
Glamorous, multi-million-dollar home featured in key scene of hit Kiwi comedy.
Iconic waterslide home back on the market in less than a year
The new owner has relisted it before even moving in.
188 suburbs out of the house price doldrums
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Tony Alexander: Influx of migrants has changed the conversation
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Farmer Gordon Burr opened his land for the neighbouring kindergarten to use.
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