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Why the Reserve Bank shouldn't cut rates
COMMENT: Real danger is house prices, not low inflation.
COMMENT: Real danger is house prices, not low inflation.
All four big banks are now applying new lending restrictions to home loans - six weeks ahead of the Reserve Bank's official September deadline.
Reaction to ANZ bank chief David Hisco’s comments on the overheated NZ housing market.
COMMENT: If the Government needed another wake-up call it's got one.
More interest rate cuts are on the way, says the Reserve Bank - as prospects for world growth diminish.
A three-bedroom rental for less than $400 per week is becoming a rare find in the wider Auckland area.
A top banker's dire warning about Auckland's house prices shows there is a "complete crisis" in the property market, economist Shamubeel Eaqub says.
David Hisco, artist/ANZ CEO paints a very gloomy future of the housing market and the economy.
A house sold forcibly last year by Auckland Council over unpaid rates has been resold less than a year later for a monster profit of $233,000.
Rents are rising fast in regions around Auckland, adding more fuel to the theory that the city's overheated property market is affecting other parts of the country.
New restrictions on bank home lending are leaving the market wide open to the non-bank lenders.
COMMENT: Policy changes are needed to create houses that are truly affordable before this generation permanently become "generation rent".
COMMENT: Investors have become scapegoats to divert attention from a council that is expensive to do business with and has lacked proactive policies.
Making investors stump up a deposit of nearly $400,000 for the average Auckland home is expected to dampen house price inflation by up to 5 per cent.
One of the more basic properties in Papakura is probably now also one of the cheapest.
Rents will go up if property investors nationwide are forced to stump-up a 40 per cent deposit, an investors' lobby group says.
Tough new rules on borrowing for investment properties have been outlined by the Reserve Bank - with banks told to take immediate action.
Labour and the Greens say the new lending rules won't be enough to slow rapid property price hikes.
Theresa May's rapid rise to prime minister will help the UK economy skirt a recession following the Brexit vote.
A Tauranga couple who lost their sea view after a real estate agent failed to tell them about a neighbour's plans will appeal.
Why are so many houses in Auckland empty when we are in the middle of a housing crisis?
Listings for stand-alone houses in popular Auckland city-fridge suburbs have plummeted as would-be sellers stay put.
A former market garden with a 1920s brick and tile home in Mangere sold at auction this week for $4.7 million - almost $3.5m over its council valuation.
COMMENT: The Auckland housing market is planned chaos. We have Government intervention upon intervention.
COMMENT: Why are politicians of all colours so afraid? And whose interests are they protecting when they say such falls are "crazy"?
COMMENT: Investing in instalments can have advantages over making a one-off deposit.
Multimillionaire businessman and retailer Rod Duke of Briscoes fame is building a new Auckland mansion on a $12 million waterfront site.
COMMENT: Stephen Jennings' warning that "we are facing an iceberg" that deserves to shatter business complacency on housing.
COMMENT: Property investors are not responsible for driving up house prices - here's why.
The average Auckland house price is now around nine times the average household's disposable income.