Auckland needs to squeeze in and up and move to having more suburban units and apartments to meet buyers' growing financial constraints and limitations.

Tenants' rights groups have welcomed plans to insulate all rental properties, but nearly 100,000 would be exempt where it was impossible to retro-fit insulation.

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.

Salvation Army warn that people at the bottom of the market face not only a shortage of property but rents moving out of their reach.

Prime Minister John Key all but conceded that pressure from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand for action on house prices was a catalyst for recent announcements.

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.

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".

Behaviour associated with an inner city Dunedin flat has upset a nearby business owner, who claims racial and sexual taunts have been hurled at her from drunken revellers.

Renters can strike a bargain when moving into a vacant property but they won't avoid rental price increases, a property expert says.

Scrapping over who is best-suited to pay someone else's mortgage isn't the ideal start to the year, but it's a January ritual for many Auckland renters.

Thousands of Auckland tenants could be in for a big shock as experts predict rents will continue to rise rapidly this year.

Auckland Council has undertaken a review of guidelines for methamphetamine-contaminated properties and developed tough new proposals to be implemented next month.

A new study has found that two-thirds of children in private rental housing in Auckland and the Waikato move house within their first two years.

As a society, how did we allow residential property to become just another investment asset class?

Landlords with properties in Otara, Mangere, Glen Innes and Mangere Bridge are reaping Auckland's highest returns.