A week ago, when the Budget had delivered no answers to the hyperinflation of house prices, the PM told us to wait for a National Policy Statement.

Auckland's effect on the property market is pushing first home buyers in the regions to the limit as they buy homes without first setting foot inside.

A house in Auckland with no walls and high levels of lead, possibly from P contamination, has sold for over $1 million.

Heartland Bank has told investors it is monitoring the dairy sector "with close attention".

Auckland first home buyers are being encouraged to learn some lessons from post-quake Christchurch.

The average Auckland house price is heading for $1 million by this time next year based on current trends.

Average value of an Auckland property rose to $955,793 in the past three months - but rate of increase lagged behind rest of New Zealand.

COMMENT: Vindictive attitudes are no surprise given the failure of the right to rule the Super City since its creation.

New Zealand residential building consents climbed 6.6 percent in April as new housing intentions climbed at their fastest monthly pace in eight years.

Only months after a landmark 1905 villa was removed from Jervois Rd in Herne Bay, plans have been lodged to remove a second villa a couple of blocks away.

People who knowingly sell apartments with big issues with the building or administration could be stung.

Auckland's housing situation is as bad as Christchurch post earthquake, Minister of Economic Development Steven Joyce says.

"Budgets are not just an accounting exercise," said Bill English, as he delivered the accounting exercise known as a surplus.

Building apprentices with technology smarts will soon be in demand.

This is not a Government that often springs surprises, for which we should be grateful most of the time.

Maori Development Minister Te Ururoa Flavell has secured $17.8 million to get a new Maori land service up and running.

The housing initiatives in the Budget are firmly targeted at pressure points in Auckland.

Society's most vulnerable will receive a $650 million funding boost spanning health, welfare and education services aimed at helping those at-risk "lead better lives".

A shift in the country's fourth-biggest listed property investor's portfolio helped lift rental income.

Make no mistake, Auckland is in crisis and it is a crisis of the council's making. Housing is unaffordable due to artificial restrictions on land supply.

Residents can use their mobile phones to unlock doors, heat rooms and even control their ovens at a new apartment development in Auckland.

Fletcher Residential has won the right to build a huge new Auckland housing project on a controversial site at Oruarangi in Mangere.

A legal stuff up could hamper 15,000 new homes being built in special housing areas in Auckland, says Labour MP and Auckland mayoral candidate Phil Goff.

A new study suggests your Facebook friends have too much of an influence on what you pay for a house.

Arvida Group reported annual earnings ahead of its prospectus forecast and is confident of further gains in 2017.

On the face of it, a decision to give the go-ahead for residential development of a site at Ihumatao, five minutes from Auckland Airport, has a lot of appeal.