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Historic bach ready to rent
Restored cottage on Rangitoto will soon take paying holidaymakers back to 1930s.
Restored cottage on Rangitoto will soon take paying holidaymakers back to 1930s.
NZ could have had a superannuation pot of gold worth $278b by next year had it kept a compulsory savings scheme set up in 1974, a financial industry body claims.
Average Auckland apartment sale prices rose more than a third in the past two years yet rents were static. But that could be about to change.
Auckland landlords are making more capital gains off their rental properties than those elsewhere, a trend predicted to speed up in the next few years.
State houses will have to be leak-free, well-ventilated and contain an electric light in each room to get a warrant of fitness.
A new book is out to help landlords, with a series of forms ranging from notices to increase rent to a dog clause document.
Renters are paying up to $70 more a week than they were four years ago in some of Auckland's city fringe suburbs.
Police are trying to track down the owner of an Auckland rental property bought for almost $1 million last year which was destroyed by the young tenants.
Changes in design, funding and land use will deliver healthy, sustainable communities, writes Glen Sowry.
The prices of necessities such as shelter and food are rising at a faster rate than non-essential items, particularly manufactured goods, writes Peter Lyons.
A West Coast woman who told a court she could only afford to pay $2 a week to her former landlord was caught out trying to buy $62 of cigarettes by a judge at the supermarket.
The Cornwall Park Trust Board has extended an olive branch to cash-strapped ground renters, offering to change the terms of 110 controversial leases.
It's no secret that Kiwis have a love affair with property. Any spare money goes into bricks and mortar, rather than a weighty investment portfolio.
Single dad Tommy Sutton has looked at about 10 rental properties in two weeks in South Auckland but all have been out of his price range.
An unseasonably warm winter has pushed rental prices up in 25 of 30 Auckland suburbs, forcing some families to share with each other.
Sleepouts built in China are due to arrive in New Zealand in containers in the next two months.
New landlord Vicky Crawford has been inadvertently passing on the full Watercare Services bill to her tenants - unaware a portion of it was hers to pay.
Thousands of tenants are picking up the tab for water bills that should be paid by their landlords.
The head of Auckland's main landlord group says TV2's Sunday night Renters reflects reality.
A tenant advocate is appalled at TV reality programme Renters, which has featured machete-wielders, rent absconders, hoarders and neighbourhood nuisances.
The red zone cordons around quake-damaged Christchurch city centre have been eased further back today.
The manager of Christchurch's Tenants Protection Association says she's not surprised by new figures that show there could be more than 7000 people classified as homeless in the city.
Auckland renters tired of facing crowds competing for the best properties have a new option for securing their dream home - pay top dollar by tender and it's yours.
Editorial: A contributor to our website today suggests an interesting way to make houses more affordable for young people seeking their first homes.
Boutique commercial office space in the South Auckland building that was the childhood home of former Prime Minister David Lange is up for sale.
Landlords increased weekly rents for homes of every size in all but two of Auckland's 30 suburbs, a four-year comparison shows.
Auckland rents are outstripping wages and rising faster than inflation, a four-year comparison shows.
Renters could be in luck, as a turnaround in the market has seen a flood of listings and brought prices to a standstill.