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

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.

It could be the best house on The Block but it hasn't been touched by contestants on the popular home renovation show.

The family home of party pills godfather Matt Bowden has sold to a local man at a mortgagee sale for $1.8 million.

Despite constantly forging new records, property buyers expect house prices will continue to increase.

New Zealand residential building consents fell 4.1 per cent in June as construction intentions in Canterbury tapered off.

Figures showing bank loans to investors outnumbering first-home buyers by three to one are hard evidence of what has undoubtedly been happening for a long time.

Owners of a huge apartment complex are about to endure their second round of building repairs, and taxpayers could be up for half that bill.

Two real estate bosses have now backed a foreign buyers' register.

New Zealand's worsening housing affordability problem is causing serious social problems.

The reason the Chinese are singled out is because of a handful of well-publicised transactions, writes Christopher Niesche.

Auckland's biggest real estate agency chain was named this year's big winner at the Real Estate Institute awards.

Exclusive: A wealthy couple who have donated generously to the National Party are cashing up more than $26 million of property in Auckland.

Interactive map shows house-by-house broadband coverage - and minister believes it will be popular with house-hunters.

Part of the Ministry of Education's lawsuit against Carter Holt Harvey has been thrown out but the bulk of the litigation remains.

Sydney just hit the million-dollar mark and property prices in Auckland show no sign of slowing down either.

Auckland tenants are having to fork out more money each week as the price of renting an Auckland house continues its upward climb.

There has never been a better time to pull out his term "crisitunity", writes Eric Crampton.

Consultancy firm EY says new rules aimed at tracking offshore property buyers could end up increasing compliance costs to taxpayers.

John Key does not need know how many Auckland houses are sold to foreign buyers to see banning such sales is a bad policy, writes Jamie Whyte. Foreign buyers make New Zealanders altogether better off. The more the better.

Those expecting fireworks in John Key and Andrew Little's first encounter since the Chinese-sounding-surname debate broke out were sorely disappointed, writes Claire Trevett.

Brian Rudman asks, how many buildings does the panel think can penetrate a viewshaft before the view becomes as extinct as the volcano we can no longer see?