COMMENT: Despite New Zealand's home-buying culture, not everyone needs a Hummer home, writes Diana Clement.

One of the most expensive properties in Hamilton bought by Auckland CEO, who plans to commute.

Yong Xin Chen ditched her leasehold Cornwall Park house after her annual rent increased from $8300 to $73,750.

The Serious Fraud Office is investigating a property development company that built two central Auckland apartments.

Auckland villa sold for $1.35 million - $190,000 over the reserve - just three months ago.

House dubbed NZ's most unique property passes in at auction.

Self-employed tenants are a landlord's biggest risk after a law change making it easier to deduct unpaid rent from an employee's wages, an expert says.

About 300 people held hands in Mangere today in a bid to stop a housing project on what an archaeologist described as "the paddock next to Stonehenge".

A family is suing their former landlord for $50,000 after discovering the house they lived in for more than three years was contaminated with P.

House prices and turnover rose in February from a year earlier as Auckland's cooling property market stoked interest across the rest of the country.

Three banks say they will pass on only part of the surprise official cash rate cut made by the Reserve Bank.

Wheeler's surprise move at odds with the way he was talking a few weeks ago, write Liam Dann.

One of Auckland's first two multi-storey state housing blocks has been sold to Auckland University to help meet a desperate shortage of student accommodation.

There must be some irony in council chief executive Stephen Town floating the idea of an independent consensus group to help resolve divisions over housing density in Auckland.

WATCH: Fran O'Sullivan, Brian Gaynor and Liam Dann dissect the surprising rate cut and what it means for house prices.

Adult entertainment and property investors strike deal for troubled builders.

The popular Ponsonby Central food and retail precinct is placing the future of four neighbouring villas in doubt.

Luxury five-bedroom Waiheke Island house will be burned to the ground this weekend.

Wealthy American golfers are desperate to snap up a piece of Pacific coastline - even if it's 13 hours from California.

WATCH: House is as about as far from a rundown shack as you can get.

See these three Auckland real estate agents show off 2 Leighton Street, Grey Lynn. Once described as a 'hovel' - it's now been transformed.

Their neighbours hate them.

A unique and timeless Waikato home featuring 1000 tonnes of marble surfaces, a waterfall, and an eye-catching copper dome is going under the hammer.

Apartment owners in a city block fear a new high-rise will obliterate their views of the Hauraki Gulf. Plans have been approved for a 10-level, 35m-high building on Karangahape Rd, squashed next door to the heritage George Court Apartment Building.

Securing a rental property is becoming increasingly difficult as the housing crisis continues - taking prices up with it.

WATCH: Apartment owners fear a new high-rise will obliterate their views of the Hauraki Gulf.

Chinese buyers could be back in the Auckland property market and if not now, they would be soon, experts say.

City of Sails house values have cooled as priced-out Aucklanders flock to the Bay of Plenty, new property figures reveal.

Much of fear generated by the city's "intensification" plans lies in visions of three or four storey apartment blocks rising next door to suburban homes.

Punters will be able to see for themselves the transformation of a dilapidated hovel as the luxurious Grey Lynn home opens for public viewings.