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: Stephen Jennings' warning that "we are facing an iceberg" that deserves to shatter business complacency on housing.

COMMENT: Investing in instalments can have advantages over making a one-off deposit.

The average Auckland house price is now around nine times the average household's disposable income.

Since the earthquakes, the cost of building new homes in Canterbury has risen by nearly 40 per cent.

The demand for large homes in Christchurch is growing, fuelled by wealthy people choosing to move to the city from other parts of NZ and overseas.

COMMENT: Landlords must be feeling pretty unloved these days.

A Tauranga real estate agent who sold a house without revealing a stunning sea view would be partially blocked has been fined $8000.

Consumer confidence remains strong but in Auckland soaring house prices are hitting sentiment.

A new free residential property database will soon be expanded and more information added.

COMMENT: Since announcing the policy, Labour has been almost silent on what it's planning and instead got distracted by what National was doing, writes Claire Trevett.

SNEAK PEEK: Take a look inside Auckland's most expensive mansion of 2016.

COMMENT: It's not the "how-to" that's a problem. It's the Government's refusal to admit there is a crisis.

A property on a quarter-acre section in Otara that failed to attract a visitor at its first open home has sold for $605,000.

National and Labour's core goals for housing are very similar. But the scale, delivery and funding of their policies differ.

COMMENT: It's as though a bee smoker has been pointed at Wellington's most famous hive and its inhabitants have become dopey.

As if low interest rates and record immigration numbers were not enough, now something else is biting into Auckland's stretched housing markets.

Analysis shows just 43 per cent of target-age Aucklanders could buy a $500,000 house under bank lending criteria.

Govt is being accused of making up policy "on the hoof" after it revealed that it would no longer be taking dividends from the state housing corporation.

COMMENT: If you can't grow the wealth of your nation, poverty, inequality and all the other social issues associated with that will grow.

Westpac's New Zealand unit is cutting interest-only lending terms to a maximum of five years, in a market where investors are the driving force.

What could cause big changes to New Zealand and Australian's housing markets?

COMMENT: My house is earning more than I do. This is not cool. I often work 12-hour days. The stress forces me to drink heavily.

If you have ever dreamed of living luxe life in Auckland overlooking beautiful parks, sea views and skyline, a penthouse in Epsom may just be the ticket.