A real estate agent sacked after on-selling two pensioners' home for a $725,000 profit faces two misconduct charges that also relate to on-selling property.

When Vicki and Mike Crosby's daughter and her partner started looking for a house, Mum and Dad put up their hands to help.

Only women will be able to rent and live in the 10 single-bedroom apartments in Glenholme, and although the properties are still being renovated, four women have signed on the dotted line.

A young couple who were told they would qualify for an $8000 govt grant to help buy first home are in shock after finding out they can only get half that.

COMMENT: You'll not often find a five-double-bedroom, two-bathroom home in Auckland for this price, writes Heather du Plessis-Allan.

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Geoff and Elizabeth McKenzie didn't expect to have all their children back home in their twenties and thirties but it's a reality they have been happy to adjust to.

A fire-damaged property in the heart of Ponsonby with a capital value of $1.37 million will go to auction next month.

Experts believe Auckland's housing crisis may be lowering city's birth rate, as young adults shut out of buying homes are forced to live with parents.

An agent helping two pensioners sell their home has been sacked after buying the property for $530,000 and selling it for $1.255 million in just four months.

Rotorua's first female-only apartment block is getting such interest developers are already looking for a site for a second one.

COMMENT: I read advice from a mortgage broker saying house hunters just need to give up their Sky TV to be able to buy a home, this enraged me.

House hunters who say they can't afford to buy a home in Auckland need to give up Sky TV or expensive cars and just save harder, says a mortgage broker.

House prices in Auckland have risen so fast that many single people on ordinary incomes now find it impossible to buy a first home on their savings.

It promised to be an affordable and modern entry into the Auckland property market but a developer has pulled the pin on a town-house project.

They're supposed to be Auckland blocks of land designated 'special' to boost the city's housing supply, instead they're being traded like horses.

Like many new Aucklanders, Bharat Bhushan and Lovely Garg are not emotionally attached to the traditional Kiwi section.

Remuera home owners may not like it, but three-storey apartments in the suburbs offer the last real chance at housing affordability in Auckland.

The Reserve Bank could expand mortgage lending restrictions in an effort to head off the housing boom as it rolls down the country, economists say.

Up to one in four property sales in parts of provincial New Zealand are now to Aucklanders, with many buyers forced from the city as prices spiral beyond their means.

China's richest man, Alibaba online shopping founder Jack Ma, says he'd like to buy a home in New Zealand.

An Auckland economist says recent changes to tax and deposit rules didn't dampen the property market - and he expects prices to keep climbing.

First home hunters squeezed out of entry-level Auckland suburbs are being pushed to the far reaches of the city but face massive daily commutes to work.

Cecile Bourgeois, 39, would like to buy a house in Auckland, but experts agree her most realistic option is leaving the city and setting up somewhere else.

COMMENT: The concerning thing is that people are so desperate to get into the market, they are borrowing to the hilt to buy overvalued homes, writes Larry Williams.

The median price per hectare is down to $33,897 in the three months to March, according to REINZ figures.

COMMENT: Last week we found out Auckland's house price boom was back from the dead like the monster in a B-grade horror movie.

Aucklanders are being pushed out of their own housing market and are responsible for one in five house sales in cities including Hamilton, Whangarei and Tauranga.