Auckland has grown by around 100,000 people since amalgamation in 2010, writes Auckland's Deputy Mayor Penny Hulse.That's the population of Lower Hutt.

My town actually went backwards in the last QV figures, with one real estate company listing a solid three-bedroom home for $45,000, writes Mark Ebrey.

Evidence of a cooling in the Auckland property market is growing - but there's plenty of reasons to think there may be life left in the boom yet.

Auction clearance rates have dropped and attendance rates are down as soaring prices flatten out.

That's the minimum Aucklanders can expect to pay in rent, regardless of property type or size, according to Trade Me.

The liquidators of an Auckland building company that collapsed owing more than $4 million believe its director is somewhere in Europe.

Summerset Group has been granted resource consent for a $100 million village in the Christchurch suburb of Casebrook.

The first round of homes in a new West Auckland housing project are up for grabs.

The real estate agent sacked after the Labour Party was leaked confidential sales data on Asian buyers is back in the Auckland property market.

A Whangarei couple have spent three months sleeping on a mattress on the floor as they battle to settle an insurance claim.

The average asking price for an Auckland apartment has risen 49 per cent in just 12 months.

Barfoot & Thompson says high number of applications is unusual for this time of the year.

Auckland up more than 75pc but Wellington bucks trend.

For many Kiwis, paying off a mortgage is a marathon effort - but on November 1, 10 lucky Auckland Marathon runners will have the chance to run down their rate

State and council civil servants need to remember their budgets come from the pockets of everyday New Zealanders, writes Kerre McIvor.

A small section in the once-sleepy town of Riverhead has sold for close to $400,000 - five times over its CV.

You can make a standard KiwiSaver first-home withdrawal without the additional top-up from the HomeStart grant. Helen Twose talks about the rules.

The words "double Grammar zone" plastered across a real estate billboard is enough to make any red-blooded agent salivate, writes Bernard Hickey.

REINZ figures show prices up $125,950 on last year as banks cut mortgage rates on back of Reserve's dropping interest rates to 2.75 per cent.

Most economists expect the bank to now retain an easing bias, with some tipping the rate to drop to 2 per cent.

Wheeler cited rising consent numbers as a bright spot in the Auckland housing sector when he gave his post-OCR briefing.

The mortgage rate war is heating up ahead of a widely tipped rates cut on Thursday, with ASB now matching the 4.35pc rate BNZ unveiled last week.

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has snapped up an eight-bedroom 17th-century Grade II-listed home in north London.

BNZ reduces one-year fixed rate to 4.35 per cent ahead of Reserve Bank's expected announcement that OCR will be cut.

The Knight Frank Global House Price Index released today ranked NZ only behind Hong Kong, Turkey, Estonia and Luxembourg for annual house price rises.

London's housing crisis has led to one landlord getting creative.

Barfoot & Thompson blames fall in Auckland market on winter weather, the Reserve Bank and international economic instability.

Behaviour by Auckland's housing speculators indicates the property market could be about to reach peak point.

A 488ha South Waikato rural property sold at auction last week for $5.25 million, says PGG Wrightson Real Estate.

The Taupo firm will pay a 5c-a-share final dividend on November 6, the first dividend since April 1998.