Most Kiwis are expecting property prices to continue their skyward climb.

Demand for these low-price Auckland apartments is so high that potential buyers will go into a draw.

Auckland for-sale inventory rose 20 per cent in the last year and was up 33 per cent in the last month alone.

Nick Smith weighs in on Auckland boarding house.

Work is about to begin on a 178m, 57-level apartment tower that will "transform" Auckland's skyline.

Walls and floors caked with dirt have led to Auckland Council serving health notices on the owner of a boarding house described as a "slum".

Watch and listen: Grey Lynn apartment balcony railings sound like unpleasant pan pipes. 'You get to screaming point,' says one neighbour.

Auckland's shrinking supply of hotel rooms is putting NZ's tourism growth at risk, says Colliers International.

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Auckland's biggest realtors say house sales have dropped to the lowest monthly total in six years.

Two inner-city Auckland apartments sold for under $300,000 at City Sales' auction yesterday.

An apartment project, where units are priced from $375,000 for Auckland, is selling out fast.

An Auckland real estate agent has been fined $6000 for falsifying a rent appraisal document.

A real estate agent was fined for asking an open home viewer to lock the apartment she was marketing.

A 16-level apartment block in Auckland has received a dangerous building notice for falling tiles.

Markets have cooled in our larger cities but regional New Zealand is heating up.

Glen Innes tenant Niki Rauti may seek rehearing after losing Tenancy Tribunal case.

A homeless mother-of-six couldn't find any motel room in Auckland yesterday.

"We're seeing definite signs that the super city is taking its foot off the gas," the head of Trade Me Property says.

Auckland mayor Phil Goff's housing taskforce meets for the first time today, the first step in his plan to respond to fast-paced growth out-stripping housing supply.

COMMENT: Buying a home is well beyond the capacity of many vulnerable younger people. They also face reduced job security and subdued wage rises.

More than 2800 needy children are already being sponsored by the charity Variety's Kiwi Kids scheme, launched in 2013, and a further 600 are on its waiting list.

Chinese migrant, Auckland landlord and ex-video game addict Gary Lin started out with a $200,000 wedding gift from his father in late 2009.

The number of houses for sale around the country has fallen sharply except in Auckland, where listings jumped 17 per cent year-on-year.

New Zealand's tourism boom means it can be lucrative to rent out property but owners need to do their homework or could get stung.

Ryman Healthcare's new Devonport retirement village is too tall, too bulky and will be a visual wall of buildings, opponents say.

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Community action group vows to take retirement giant Ryman to the Environment Court over Devonport development.

One Wellington flat received almost 100 inquiries within hours of being listed, and 350 in a week, Trade Me says.

All Metlifecare retirement villages are being reviewed after four villages were found to have watertightness issues.