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

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

Fire Service bosses are seeking law changes making it compulsory for rental properties to have smoke alarms installed and maintained.

The Government today launched a new service to speed up the settlement of rental disputes between tenants and landlords.

The Government is facing growing calls to improve the lot of renters as increasing numbers of NZers are locked out of home ownership.

A coastal Northland property purchased for just $9000 in 1974 is commanding a price tag around $1.6 million.

The lawyer of woman who defended Cornwall Park Trust Board’s $170k lawsuit over back rent suspects her opponents may appeal.

Owning your own home is the "Kiwi dream" but it's becoming out of reach for a lot of people. But fear not, here's ten reasons why you might prefer to stay renting.

The Maori Party would make a warrant of fitness for all rental properties compulsory within three years if it gets into government.

Auckland landlords are hiking rents amid fears of big rates increases next year on the back of spiralling property values.

A "warrant of fitness" scheme for all rental housing may be on the agenda whoever wins the election in September, a new survey has found.

Landlords are too lenient when a tenant falls behind in rent or causes damage, property managers say.

A landlord whose property was left in squalor by a tenant owing more than $6k rent and another who caused $28,000 damage, says renting is risky.

For rent: a $220 a week room on Auckland's North Shore complete with a "summer kitchen".

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.

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.

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.