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Auckland home affordability improves
Falling interest rates and static prices is making Auckland housing more affordable, say Massey University lecturers.
Falling interest rates and static prices is making Auckland housing more affordable, say Massey University lecturers.
Evidence of a cooling in the Auckland property market is growing - but there's plenty of reasons to think there may be life left in the boom yet.
Auction clearance rates have dropped and attendance rates are down as soaring prices flatten out.
Barfoot & Thompson says high number of applications is unusual for this time of the year.
London's housing crisis has led to one landlord getting creative.
After years of increases, New Zealand rents stalled last month, says Trade Me Property.
Greenlane renter Matt Cotton estimates he has sunk more than $100,000 in rent on his four-bedroom house since moving in four years ago.
After millenials, US baby boomers will be the next wave driving apartment demand and pushing up rents.
It turns out everything you've heard about Auckland's property market is true. But it's not just buying a house that's hard. It's renting, too.
More than three-quarters of Auckland landlords intend to hike rents in response to hefty rates increases announced by Auckland Council.
Auckland Council's 1400 pensioner homes look set to pass to a new community-controlled entity to be redeveloped into more intensive housing, partly for sale to private buyers.
Nearly 6000 new apartments are set to be built across Auckland over the next three years, with most planned for suburban and city fringe areas, new research reveals.
Anger is building about the poor condition of rental properties in New Zealand writes Dr Bryce Edwards.
An Auckland takeaway owner has been landed with a $110,000 rent hike demand.
Landlords say they're being left thousands of dollars out of pocket by errant tenants, forcing up rents for law-abiding Kiwis.
Editorial: As winter's cold and damp begins to bite, Auckland's renters have far more reason than most to feel disgruntled.
Sexual discrimination, illegal fees, tenants turfed out and filthy, expensive homes - Joanna Mathers finds life has never been harder for renters.
Brian Tamaki has sold his Maraetai mansion and moved into a rental across the road - and his new landlord is MP Judith 'Crusher' Collins.
The IRD has released a summary of commonly made mistakes by non-professional property investors.
Investor association slams Reserve Bank’s bid to rein in Auckland house prices, saying it will push up rents and ruin first home buyers' chances.
New lending rules targeting Auckland residential property investors will cool the market - but the city's "gravitational pull" will counter any impact, John Key says.
A real estate agent rented a house to a colleague at a discounted rate and paid the difference so he could use its garage for storage - without the owners' knowledge.
At what point does Generation Rent start using its votes to change those politicians, Bernard Hickey asks.
Regulatory moves to curb bank lending to residential property investors are a live possibility, says Reserve Bank deputy governor Grant Spencer.
Tenants feel heat as population growth creates shortage of rental properties.
About 1400 private bach owners on the Coromandel face being stung with a new council charge if their properties are rented out as short-term holiday accommodation.
Landlords have hit back at Reserve Bank consultation on their sector, threatening to punish tenants by hiking rents if a tougher lending regime is ushered in.
Soaring house prices and tighter lending rules mean ever-increasing numbers of New Zealanders are becoming long-term renters.
National rents have risen 9 per cent in the past 12 months, the biggest increase recorded in five years and "grim news for tenants".