Asbestos contamination and a highly unstable building have destroyed any chance of personal belongings being saved from 61 Molesworth St in Wellington.

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.

The Ryman village is planned for the ex-Navy Wakakura site in Devonport.

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.

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.

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The property market is at its peak, says Property Brokers Hawke's Bay manager Paul Whitaker. He said while prices were strong and

Motivated by a weakening yuan, surging domestic housing costs and the desire to secure offshore footholds, Chinese citizens are snapping up overseas homes at an accelerating pace.

This exclusive Australian precinct is already up to 80 per cent foreign owned and mostly by Chinese investors.

Corrections Minister Judith Collins has sold her luxury Maraetai holiday home for $1.9 million.

Sally Ridge is now a licensed real estate agent with her first listing for sale in Auckland.

Business people are upset about Queen St's homeless but they're being called on to help.

Auckland economic update shows the city's extremely strong performance

Big families in Auckland are among those being asked to fork out almost $1.5m for a new home as the price of a five-bedroom property has more than doubled.