Housing prices dropped in most parts of New Zealand over the last month, offering a glimmer of hope for first home buyers.

Wealthy Americans are preparing for a potential doomsday by buying property in New Zealand.

Unusual feature of new $15m heritage apartment project revealed

Paihia woman 'vehemently denies' using coded real-estate terms to organise buying P from drugs kingpin.

New Zealand's politicians need to get the "guts" to introduce major reform aimed at tackling housing affordability, ACT Party leader David Seymour says.

Christchurch housing became more affordable in 2016, bucking the trend across New Zealand's housing markets.

Auckland's worsening housing affordability could be eased by freeing up more development land, one business leader says.

Trying to break into the property market by yourself - with no partner, family or friends - is a tough battle.

The annual Demographia housing affordability survey is out and unsurprisingly it paints a disturbing picture when it comes to our largest city. Herald property editor Anne Gibson gives us the details of how bad affordability is in Auckland.

A new business thinks it has found a way to get more first-home buyers into the property market.

From converted garages to spaces so tiny the bed has to be mounted on the wall, the typical studio flat is becoming ever smaller.

A community action group says big opposition to a retirement village in Devonport hasn't stopped the council granting consent.

Homeowners will find themselves in trouble if interest rates rise by as little as 0.5 per cent. And it's the young and rich most at risk.

Rental property companies are bracing for a tsunami of applications as thousands of students compete with transferring workers and new migrants for a place to live.

Real estate industry watchdog investigators are looking into quick fire sales of neighbouring properties in Mangere Bridge following a Herald investigation.

Where in the country are house prices cooling and rising?

Double income families who've been renting for a long time are ten dollars away from ending up in their car, a housing trust CEO says.

Helen O'Sullivan, chief executive of Ockham Residential, gives her take on the year ahead. What is 2017 looking like for your business? 2017

Watch NZH Local Focus: This is the city with the cheapest housing in New Zealand and local real estate agents are rejoicing.

While some projects are cancelled, work has begun to convert a 17-level office block in to apartments.

Two Auckland homes were sold five times in four days as investors 'flipped' the properties for huge profits.

Asked to forecast the outlook for the housing market this year, an economist recently made an important point.

A legal highs baron whose synthetic cannabis product was blamed for causing severe health effects and psychotic episodes is building a luxury waterfront home.

Latest figures show Auckland's growth rate halving over past 12 months and insiders expect further slowing in 2017.

Gary Groves of Sanctuary Group is changing the ex-Fonterra headquarters on Princes St from commercial usage to residential, selling apartments from $1 million each and said while some apartment schemes had been cancelled, teams were at work on The International at 9 Princes St opposite the Hotel Pullman Auckland, beside the Northern Club.

The Australian apartment report follows funding issues hitting four big Auckland apartment developments.

The Property Institute of New Zealand takes a look at the crystal ball to see what's in store for housing in 2017

Consent has been granted for an application from a Thai business to acquire an interest in the towering Metropolis in Auckland's CBD.

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As the country's property prices finally flatten off, this town is bucking the trend with people buying up the city's houses in their droves.