Residents at Warkworth's Summerset Falls retirement village have complained about delays to a recreation centre expansion.

A plan for a five-storey apartment block in Birkenhead is fuelling the intensification-versus-housing choice debate.

A leaky building lawsuit against cladding manufacturer James Hardie is looking more likely to expand into a class action.

A clifftop Parnell property owned by a prominent Aucklander has had more than $6 million wiped off its capital value by Auckland Council.

Finance Minister raises spectre of a reversal of fortune as latest REINZ figures shows median Auckland house sale price dropped $20,000 last month.

The latest REINZ figures show Auckland's median price fell 2.65 per cent from $755,000 in June to $735,000 last month.

A Fletchers project to build up to 480 homes on a Mangere site, including ancestral burial caves, may be the first Auckland Special Housing Area to be revoked.

"It is a sea change ... one that very few people would have seen coming" - Herne Bay Residents Association chairwoman Christine Cavanagh.

Indian-born Hema Puthran has lived the quarter-acre Kiwi dream but chose to downsize for the convenience of an inner-city apartment.

When Noel Oelofsen emigrated from South Africa he planned to buy his own house to give his family financial security.

Our desire to have our own piece of land is a key part of our culture. It just isn't realistic, though, writes Gareth Kiernan.

By not allowing "density done well" in our inner suburbs, we're all paying more for housing, and Aucklanders are forced to live in houses bigger than they need, writes Sudhvir Singh.

Auckland Council contacts police over claims homeowner, whose house was sold by mortgagee sale today, has been paying rates to unregistered Maori authority.

The culture around renting needs to change. Renters should be able to decorate their dwellings to suit their taste, writes Angela Maynard.

Even in department stores throughout Europe, it is hard to escape Auckland. That is because of the widespread presence of a Dutch clothing range called NZA New Zealand Auckland.

The number of mortgagee sales has jumped nationwide in the past quarter as worsening economic conditions and lower dairy payouts hit parts of provincial New Zealand.

Auckland developer Tony Gapes of Redwood Group is poised to sell three-quarters of New Zealand's most affordable intensive housing project to Chinese interests.

Gone are the days of using a garage just to store the car.

Aucklanders are leaving in such numbers that half the house sales in the Waikato outside Hamilton and nearly a quarter in Tauranga are to those from the big city.

Aucklanders snapping up out-of-town property unseen have prompted warnings of the dangers of not getting expert checks.

A large piece of land for sale in Wellsford could be the answer for Aucklanders looking for cheaper housing and a change of lifestyle.

One of Auckland's most upmarket new apartments hits the market tomorrow, although it is not yet built.

Minister Nick Smith admits that Auckland had a housing shortage, but notes that there were a large number of uncertainties in the analysis.

Auckland Council's Housing Project Office estimates city's shortfall could rise rapidly to 25,000 homes in 2018, compared to current levels of roughly 15,000.

New stats show a big fall in median prices for July.

Auckland house hunters are buying new homes before selling their existing properties out of fear of being cut out of the spiralling market.

The size of the typical American household has been shrinking but the size of homes keep getting bigger and bigger.

Home values on Auckland's North Shore are up 17.6 per cent year-on-year and a huge 6.2 per cent since May.

Sellers who want their homes to stand out need to get an offer that meets their needs. Here are some pointers from the pros.