Almost all of New Zealand has had a "hotspot" feeling to it this year, but one part of Auckland is about to boom with 254 per cent growth.

Watch NZH Focus: Up to 75 per cent of Auckland properties going under the hammer are failing to sell.

First there was food porn and now there is real estate porn. Who doesn't love perving on online property listings?

One of Queenstown's biggest developers has called time on plans for a retirement village.

COMMENT: The latest OECD data show that the ratio of housing cost to household incomes in NZ increased just 3.4 per cent over the last six years.

A house in Spain has been crowned as the world's best house after it won House of the Year at 2016's World Architecture Festival.

Super-investor Ron Hoy Fong discloses how his students get into property by using their parents' house and help.

The listed property investor increased first-half earnings 22 per cent as it benefited from the rising value of its portfolio.

Rents in New Zealand's two most populous cities increased last month despite remaining largely unchanged elsewhere.

COMMENT: Property prices are associated with higher income inequality, but also with higher inequality in household spending.

Auckland households earning over $104,950 are cut out of new affordable housing developments.

Homeowners involved in the James Hardie class action told the court their leaky home sold for $350,000 below market value.

Watch NZ Herald Focus: Property boss defends apartment developers asking for more money from off-the-plan buyers.

Kiwi Property Group, the country's biggest listed property investor, posted a 27 per cent gain in first-half profit.

Building owners taking part in a $250 million cladding class action against James Hardie have packed the courtroom gallery.

Move over Sydney and Melbourne, another Australian city is set to become our strongest property market.

COMMENT: Unbridled bank lending is the driving force behind house price growth, Michael Rehm writes.

COMMENT: Figures suggest NZ real estate prices are well out of line.

Buyers of a big Takapuna apartment project replacing The Block homes are the latest off-the-plan purchasers to be asked to pay more for units.

An Auckland apartment buyer now faces forking out $1 million for a unit he had agreed to buy for $775,000.

A penthouse apartment in Sydney's Bennelong Point, with a 270 degree outlook of Sydney's iconic harbour, is Australia's most expensive apartment.

Auckland Council is yet to loan $15 million for the upgrade of the city's historic St James Theatre and no public money is at stake in the troubled project.

Around 3 per cent of New Zealand homes are being sold to people with foreign tax residency, according to just-released data.

The site removes the need for agents and for vendors to pay commissions.

A Chow brothers' company is teaming up with the multi-billion dollar China Railway Zhongji group to build houses in Auckland.

Queenstown's building boom has pushed crane numbers up 600 per cent in the last few months.

Watch NZ Herald Focus: Anti-Trump Americans are engaging New Zealand's top residential agency to find properties here.

Join NZ Herald Property Editor Anne Gibson as she talks to Ollie Wall from Graham Wall Real Estate on Americans buying up large in New Zealand, both in residential and commercial property.

One of Auckland's biggest inner-city apartment projects has been hit with funding issues and buyers have been asked to fork out more.

A tin shed (literally, a tin shed) has sold for $1.8m in a Sydney suburb this week.