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Six ways to help your children buy their first house ... without risking yours
Navigating the tax, legal and emotional minefield will require some guidance.
New Zealand’s average property value sinks below $1m - is your suburb at risk?
Market ended 2022 on a grim note, but has it reached the bottom yet?
Landlord tax: You can put up the rent $150pw but you won’t find a willing tenant
Property investors are in a foul mood heading into 2023.
Inflation pain: Is the house price boom to blame and will interest rates stop it?
How the spike in prices is affecting the housing market.
‘Robot Man’ sells up in Auckland for best house in Oamaru
"People here think it’s bloody expensive but people in Auckland say ‘That’s so cheap’.”
No ‘blood on the floor’ after huge house price drops
ANZ chief economist says high employment rate and strong wage growth have saved NZ.
‘Possibly the cheapest home in Hamilton’ sold in less than two minutes
Houses with advertised reserves sell quickly in final auctions of 2022.
‘Don’t go nil-by-mouth’: Ex-TV star on biggest mistakes first time buyers can make
How to prepare for the market in 2023.
The sleepy hollow towns where house prices are ‘on a rampage’
Influx of Aucklanders a boost to fringe housing markets.
‘If Remmers is down, watch out’: Why price drops in rich-lister suburb matter
Experts say Remuera is the canary in the coal mine for how overall market is performing.
How world’s top travel guide changed house prices in so-called ‘backwater’
New Plymouth's fortunes changed following write-up in Lonely Planet, says agent.
Take a tour: New Zealand’s most intriguing homes on sale right now
Flash houses linked to movie royalty, rugby royalty and even to the British Crown.
‘A stain on our country’: Kiwibank economist lays into NZ’s ‘biggest embarrassment’
Housing market expert on what NZ we could learn from Australia.
‘Cheap money fuelled the fire’: Kiwis’ costly property obsessions laid bare
The post-Covid property boom has changed the market for better and for worse.
TV’s Rich Lister agent: Vendors who expect 2021 prices are ‘living under a rock’
Biggest challenge for agents this year has been managing expectations of stubborn vendors.
North Islanders fleeing crime and city stresses buy in remote town sight unseen
“People look out for each other and there’s an element of safety.”
Tony Alexander: The risk of over-tightening in NZ’s inflation fight
Recession fears dominate.
From $250K to $2m: Rich-lister golf courses push up prices to ‘crazy’ levels
Tourism, three golf courses and a scarcity of land make the Aspen of NZ a gold mine.
New rules could bring house prices down even further
Looming restrictions on how much buyers can borrow.
Thousands of Chinese eyes on the NZ housing market
Kiwi auctions a global hit, but sales still got hammered.
Housing market experts: Would they buy a house in 2023?
The alarm bells have been rung, but how do economists actually view the market?
A bach for $620K? Everything you need to about buying a beach home in NZ
Ever wondered what it would be like to buy a house by the surf?
Blame Auckland! Why Wellington’s house prices soared then dropped like a brick
Auckland investors piled into the region post-Covid.
The beach town transformed by Covid ... and now catching up with Aussie
Mangawhai a hot spot for Aucklanders looking to escape hectic city life.
Tony Alexander: Why Kiwis will still be buying beach homes even in an economic downturn
There is a strong level of underlying support for bach purchases.
Unusual timewarp house sells for $800K-plus - buyer gets eels and 60s wallpaper
The dated Glenside home had floral wallpaper and eels in a stream at the backyard.
Slump-busters! The Kiwi towns where house prices don’t drop
NZ’s most affordable property market has been immune to the downturn.
$1 reserve cottage: First home buyer beats flipper in tense end to auction
North Shore "project" home sells for $480,000.
Asking price of celebrity chef Chelsea Winter’s home drops by $240K
Boutique real estate firm also drops price on a handful of its luxury listings.
South Auckland house-buyer turns down offer of a shiny new Tesla for Christmas
The free Tesla was not the selling point for the new owners of the Flat Bush house and gra
Could you live in West Auckland’s multi-million-dollar ‘pohutukawa tree’?
Architect Ken Crosson's Red House won over naysayers with pohutukawa colours.
Grand Designs NZ castle for sale - from abandoned ruin to dream palace
Fairytale ending for Canterbury mansion.
Two for $125K! Ultra cheap apartments among NZ’s most viewed homes
Home-buyers were attracted in huge numbers to bargain properties.