A landlord tried to rent a North Shore studio which had the kitchen, bathroom and laundry in the same room.

First time landlords are being warned to check how much tax they may need to pay on rental incomes ahead of the July 7 deadline.

An Auckland landlord wants tenants to rent his caravan without a toilet or shower at his Sandringham property, advertising the "Arabian nights" bargain at $200 a week.

Yong Xin Chen bought a leasehold $2.4 million Greenlane property from the Cornwall Park Trust Board expecting to develop it, the High Court has been told.

Yong Xin Chen, being sued for more than $300k after abandoning her leasehold Greenlane property, broke down crying in court yesterday.

Ground rent of $173k is being sought from Yong Xin Chen in a case being brought by the Cornwall Park Trust Board.

A woman who walked away from her multi-million dollar Auckland house has failed to get legal costs in a battle over freezing assets.

'Cave' dwellers will officially get top priority for social housing under new rules that kicked in this week.

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.

An enterprising landlord has been swamped with inquiries about his modest rental property after offering a free holiday as a sweetener to prospective tenants.

House rental prices in Auckland could rise up to 50 per cent in some areas because new mortgage lending restrictions are pushing would-be home owners to rent.

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.

Residential rents could rise and historic buildings might be abandoned, say property chiefs who have mixed feelings about real estate changes in the Budget.

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.