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AirBnB goes on a charm offensive
The home-sharing site arranges merchant walks to curry support from businesses.
The home-sharing site arranges merchant walks to curry support from businesses.
The number of people looking at houses in the country's biggest city on industry website realestate.co.nz has dropped from the same time last year.
A community group says even the top bracket of income earners eligible for the Government's HomeStart programme cannot afford a property in Auckland.
Overseas residents bought 1749 out of the 57,678 homes sold in New Zealand between April and June, newly-released data shows.
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New Zealand's richest man Graeme Hart can sleep easy knowing his $31 million Auckland mansion has escaped rezoning for intensive housing.
They're mostly a tired bunch of very average homes in some of the city's poorest neighbourhoods.
Activity in Auckland and surrounding regions has pushed residential building consents to their highest annual total in more than a decade.
Shoebox apartments could be back in Auckland after they were banned in 2007.
Residents in wealthy suburbs along Tamaki Dr are gobsmacked at plans to rezone their traditional single-house properties for more intensive housing.
A couple who moved from London to raise their young family in New Zealand are "devastated" by the latest plan.
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Auckland has made heavy weather of its plain need for dense development.
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New Zealand house prices will rise another 17 per cent before peaking late next year, say economic consultancy Infometrics.
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Like their New Zealand neighbours, Australians are being shut out of the property market by soaring house prices, writes Christopher Niesche.
More than $1.5 billion of property has been sold in Tauranga this year with almost 1 in every 5 properties snapped up by Aucklanders.
The Government has wrapped its entire supply-led strategy for dealing with Auckland's housing crisis/challenge into the Auckland Unitary Plan.
Two Auckland real estate agents and their boss are awaiting punishment for their part in two deals where homes were on-sold for huge mark-ups.
Property deals involving two Auckland houses have seen the Real Estate Agents Authority take action.
A blueprint to build more houses on smaller sections for Auckland's ballooning population is days away from being unveiled.
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But all that could change soon with the new lending crackdown, one active buyer says.