Retirement giant Ryman Healthcare has released the first image of a $100 million North Shore village on a site where hundreds of people will live.

Auckland's property market showed signs of slowing last month, with a 7.7 per cent fall in sales and new listings dropping by a similar amount.

Windfall profits reaped by early investors in taxpayer-funded affordable housing trigger minimum occupancy rule.

Homeowners are at risk of being under-insured because of changes that make insurance clients estimate how much it would cost to rebuild, the Earthquake Commission says.

One of New Zealand's largest builders releases new details of huge push into Auckland housing, as residents vow to take legal action.

Latest QV stats: Moves by the Government and Reserve Bank to slow Auckland's heated housing market are having an effect - but not yet on prices.

The average asking price for an apartment in Auckland is more than for a house elsewhere in New Zealand.

The largest property developer in the country says business has never been this busy.

Six-bedroom, three-bathroom Auckland home auctioned at no reserve sells far below owner's expectations.

Affordable beachfront real estate in the Hokianga is becoming a major drawcard for many looking for an escape from Auckland.

INTERACTIVE: Confidential maps show a big squeeze in some of Auckland's poshest and poorest streets.

Homeowners will probably be able to build a fence, carport or more without the need for a resource consent under major reforms to planning laws.

Fight back against plan to turn campus into suburban real estate.

COMMENT: Remember the Lorax? Once that green space has gone, it has gone for ever, writes Roger Hall.

A mould-infested house on the North Shore is being held up by the international press as an example of how heated Auckland's property market has become.

Auckland councillors are going behind closed doors to propose rezoning thousands more houses in the city's suburbs for multiple townhouses and apartments.

Tens of thousands of homes in Auckland's leafy residential suburbs are being rezoned and Auckland Council says homeowners will not be notified about the changes.

Twenty years ago they bought a 4ha lifestyle block in Whenuapai's Brigham Creek Rd for $285,000. This month they sold it for $7 million.

Having your Block NZ house inside the sought-after Mt Albert Grammar school zone could boost the property's value by over $100,000.

Ryman Healthcare plans to build as much new retirement village and hospital stock in one Australian city as it will throughout New Zealand.

A "hikoi for homes" in Auckland today may be the forerunner of social unrest on a greater scale.

A real estate agent with a string of complaints lost his job but is selling for another.

The Government has dismissed one of the key recommendations in a report on rising sea levels.

Auckland tenants could be in for a New Year shock.

Average Hamilton property values have posted a massive 21 per cent rise average in the just released three-yearly council revaluations.

At least one family every three days is now seeking housing help across Auckland because their only place to live is a car.

In 1992 banks and borrowers were as risk-averse, writes Bernard Hickey. Fast forward to 2015 and the mathematics are on another planet.

A Mt Maunganui beachside mansion and rebuild of an Albany home are the big winners in the Registered Master Builders House of the Year Competition.

A woman's nine-year labour of love has transformed an old rural school into a sports fanatic's dream home.