Retirement giant clocks 31% quarterly sales boost
Illness or death of residents not main reason for strong trade
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The children living in the home were traumatised by the rats.
The big law changes looming for tenants and landlords
Tenancies will only be able to be ended with specific, lawful reasons from next month.
Booming Auckland property market breaks another record, sales double
December was the sixth straight month to see 1000 homes sold.
The $3 million apartments attracting North Shore residents
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There doesn't seem to be anything else like it on the market.
Who's to blame for rising house prices? Pick your bogeyman
The Reserve Bank is just one of the parties in the gun.
New stark prediction on house prices for 2021
National house price growth of 13-16 per cent picked in next few months.
Where to go to escape Auckland's skyrocketing house prices
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OneRoof: Tips for vendors in a hot housing market (yes, you still need them)
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OneRoof: How did our most expensive town cope with Covid?
Queenstown's housing market has weathered the Covid storm remarkably well.
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Only two units left in 90-unit Wynyard project
But buyers won't be moving in before Christmas.
Housing spending rises $12b, Kiwis splurge $60.8b in just 11 months
Aucklanders splurged even more, with spending up 40% to $29.2 billion.
Big read: Is there such thing as a humane eviction?
NEW YORK TIMES: As a bulge of evictions looms, a US sheriff is trying to soften the blow.
Tenants from hell: Assault, indecent exposure and scaring neighbours
The Tenancy Tribunal has dealt with hundreds of Bay of Plenty complaints this year.
Bad timing: 2871 new Auckland CBD students units offered, planned
Twin-block planned when international students were plentiful.
'Paradise lost' – residents rage as giant firm plans huge Auckland housing village
Fletcher Building buys huge tract of farmland for housing. But locals aren't impressed.
Ponsonby school fire: Residents left in the dark over asbestos risk
They were advised to leave their homes due to the risk, but what now?
Thanks, but no thanks: Orr rebuffs Robertson's house price suggestion
Orr says the Govt has the tools it needs to cool market – calls for new housing agency.
Dehumidifier disaster: Remuera family's belongings incinerated in house fire
Devastating blaze acts as reminder about the dangers of heaters and dehumidifiers.
Red-hot property market: The most house sales in a month since 2007
New national price records and sale volumes set in frantic November
Multimillion-dollar Auckland waterfront leasehold land deals settled
Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Whai Rawa leasehold land deal under negotiation.
Rare event: NZX listing for Radius
176m fully-allocated shares listed at 80c, giving $141m valuation.
Wellington City Council considers renters' advocacy service
The council is looking to help those caught up in an increasingly volatile rental market.
University of Auckland had to sell leaky Remuera mansion at massive discount
The revelation comes as top watchdog pans university's purchase of another plush mansion.
'Frivolous': Students, Minister take aim at university over $5m Parnell mansion
University of Auckland's highly paid boss lived in Parnell mansion on discounted rent.
Retirement village law overhaul mooted
The sector lacks a simple complaints system, the paper says.
University's $5m mansion purchase slammed by watchdog
University of Auckland's purchase of Parnell home for boss not justified: Auditor-General.
Complaints against real estate agents reach new low
But the percentage of consumers who had issues or problems during transactions has risen.
Almost half of all Auckland homes sold in November priced over $1m
November figures out from city's largest agency.
Heather du Plessis-Allan: Beware Grant Robertson's bright-line backflip
Opinion: Is Grant Robertson about to introduce another tax by stealth?
Rental property built in the 1940s deemed unsuitable
Transitional accommodation providers in Northland keen to take up man's offer.