They bought nearly half of all the Auckland properties for sale in June.

After a fight with her landlord, Leonie Müller chose to quit the property market and live on trains.

First-home buyers in the regions are leading the uptake of new subsidies worth up to $20,000 as Aucklanders struggle with ever-increasing house prices.

The number of people accessing Government support for a deposit on a house has doubled since new HomeStart subsidies were introduced.

An energy makeover helps a house go from ice to nice.

A marina developer and a former Mrs New Zealand are poised to sell their Auckland mansion for as much as $20 million.

Construction firm chief does damage control after suggesting that builders who carried out shoddy repair work on quake damaged homes had "gone back to Ireland".

After years of increases, New Zealand rents stalled last month, says Trade Me Property.

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

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

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.

Today we launched a 10-day series which looks at some of Auckland's biggest issues. Here's some of your feedback to questions posed on social media today.

Auckland consistently ranks highly in lists of the world's best cities but is never number one. So what would it take to turn Auckland into a first-class city?

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

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.

The cladding manufacturer is facing a leaky building lawsuit that could balloon into class action.

About 7000 Auckland residents have successfully challenged their 2014 property revaluations - and the most common outcome has been a fall in the home's CV.

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.

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