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Urgent remedial work is underway in an Auckland housing project due to fears the houses are unsafe.

New figures show median price close to breaking $800,000 while houses remain least affordable in Auckland.

The Queenstown home of missing pilot John Beckenridge has gone on the market.

Key Auckland and national house sale data is about to emerge.

Airbnb's fastest-growing and most-beloved demographic are those aged 60 and older.

The death of an elderly woman at a leaky apartment complex illustrates the stress facing many apartment residents.

The affordability of New Zealand's housing returned to the spotlight in Parliament yesterday.

"Perverse" tax incentives are encouraging investors to leave thousands of homes empty in Australia's most desirable suburbs.

Whether you prefer to take a dip off a private jetty, in a heated pool or designer tub with seaviews - these luxury properties will whet the appetite.

The Dotcom mansion is being marketed as "distinguished and magnificent" but many people will recall the unusual spectre of police swooping on the property at Coatesville, northwest of Auckland.

People buying the cheapest homes in Auckland are still paying at least $100 more in weekly mortgage repayments than two years ago.

An Auckland property that transformed from a hovel into a million-dollar must-have has sold.

By next year more than half of all new homes built in Auckland will be part of apartment blocks or terraced homes.

COMMENT: You don't expect to find traces of meth when you are buying from the Crown, writes David Rowe.

Couple's home renovation dreams shattered after their house tests positive for methamphetamine contamination.

Cancel the gym membership - an expansive property overlooking the Waikato River includes its own gymnasium, covered swimming pool and sauna.

Young Aucklanders with dreams of buying a first home should look to other parts of the regions for a property.

Only 14 per cent of young house-hunters in Auckland expect they'll get on the property ladder within two years.

The Leighton St house transformed from hovel to high-end "sophisticated elegance" goes under the hammer at 6pm on Tuesday.

COMMENT: IRD excels at finding evaders, who can face huge bills, writes Diana Clement.

Barely one in three young Aucklanders believe they will ever own their own home, with many resigned to a lifetime of renting.

Hundreds of state houses are testing positive for methamphetamine contamination, but information on suspected properties shows that could get worse.

A plan to build 334 new homes in Bayswater on the North Shore has caused concerns about increased traffic congestion and overcrowded schools.

Craig Walker lived in the Base Commander's house at Hobsonville Point for three and a half years as a child, now he's moving it down the road.