Homeless people who get a grant of up to $5000 to leave Auckland will now get cash payments of a further $2000 or $3000 on top of actual moving costs.

A rotting villa transformed into a Grey Lynn masterpiece sold for $2.825 million, the Herald can finally reveal.

Recent migrants from China are looking to save themselves a fortune by picking up raw land at Hobsonville.

Inside the 19th century Auckland cottage that sits on a 73sqm section and is sandwiched between two apartment blocks.

COMMENT: The figures confirmed the Auckland housing market is running hot through the winter and the heat from that "halo" is spreading around the country.

John Banks' multi-million dollar Auckland CBD penthouse - complete with silk-lined walls and marble-clad bathrooms and floors - is on the market.

The finest homes in Auckland and Northland have been revealed.

Consumer confidence recovers in June as more jobs, rising house prices lift sentiment.

Fletcher Building's residential division has signed a deal with the government to build 196 homes on Crown land.

New Zealand's national house price gained to a record high in May, rising above $500,000 for the first time, as five regions hit all-time highs.

It's getting more expensive to buy a house in two Australian states if you live overseas.

COMMENT: After a couple of months to assess the market's reaction, they now see that the market drivers of high demand and low supply still persist.

Auckland has about 45,000 to 50,000 residential multi-unit apartments which are home to more than 100,000 people, an expert says.

Prime Minister John Key says he "potentially" supports income-related restrictions on mortgage lending.

ASB is the fourth major bank to impose lending restrictions on foreign home buyers.

Lawrence Watt joins first-home hunters to see how far he can stretch $550,000 in Auckland's suburbs.

Rotorua, Whakatane and Taupo are three new areas to bask in the glow of Auckland's property boom as investors drive up values.

America's Cup yachtsman Sir Russell Coutts and his family have moved into their multi-million-dollar beachfront home.

One of the criteria to qualify as a first-home buyer is that you have never held an "estate in land", either solely or jointly with another person.

The Reserve Bank is about to undertake a major review of the capital regime for New Zealand's retail banks.

The decision of banks to stop lending to foreign house buyers appears to have taken everyone by surprise.

BNZ has joined ANZ Bank and Westpac's local unit in restricting mortgage lending for foreign property buyers.

COMMENT: Debt is growing twice as fast as economic growth, writes Brian Fallow.

COMMENT: House prices are rising at 30 times the rate of inflation. 16,000 houses are year are being bought by foreign speculators. Record numbers are living in cars and garages, writes Andrew Little.

COMMENT: Housing. How hard is it really? Here's a house, here's a door. Windows: one, two, three, four. And the hatchback, if you have one.

The former managing director of a cool store that exploded, killing a firefighter and injuring seven others, has bought the site.

A unit in Mt Roskill? Or a country house with its own natural moat? This Auckland 'island' is for sale - tipped to go for under $1m.

Turns out the answer isn't as simple as you might think.