A scammer used social media to prey on a vulnerable homeless woman and her children by promising them a house if they paid up front. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

An Auckland landlord illegally rented out a converted garage to a young family.

Weekly rent for a typical New Zealand home has reached $500, up more than 30 per cent in the last five years.

Young professionals are struggling to find rentals in the Hawke's Bay.

Finding two- or three-bedroom Auckland properties will cost you more.

Prospective buyers are told they could get more than 50 new residences in the popular suburb of Waterview.

A new precinct has been announced for a waterfront site at Hobsonville Point in Auckland.

A Northland woman selling a small lifestyle block says Kiwis "think this is too much work" to take on the property.

The country's biggest real estate agency chain has released data on Auckland property in February.

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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Airbnb is open to paying bed taxes here if required, and already does so in other parts of the world.

Disquiet expressed on latest monthly figures of Auckland building growth.

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.

Blenheim home owner enraged to find her rented home faces a huge decontamination bill for P.

$100,000 worth of damage to Auckland house leaves landlord fuming.

"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.