A land-buying agency with compulsory acquisition powers is the most radical of the Productivity Commission's proposals for dealing with Auckland's housing crisis.

Compulsory acquisition of land by an urban development authority for large-scale developments is the latest idea to tackle Auckland's housing crisis.

Auckland Council's 1400 pensioner homes look set to pass to a new community-controlled entity to be redeveloped into more intensive housing, partly for sale to private buyers.

Nearly 6000 new apartments are set to be built across Auckland over the next three years, with most planned for suburban and city fringe areas, new research reveals.

In the early 20th century, suburban New Zealand was seldom the bucolic paradise that a nostalgic glance in its direction might suggest.

Anger is building about the poor condition of rental properties in New Zealand writes Dr Bryce Edwards.

One of the surplus land holdings shown off to journalists as available for an affordable housing partnership had already been offered to iwi.

Record numbers of people are sleeping rough or in cars as Auckland's desperate housing shortage makes life harder than ever for those at the bottom.

OPINION: Landlord Tim Duffett says it's time to change the whole way we rent homes in New Zealand.

More than 500 New Zealand leaky-home victims, whose places have been clad in James Hardie materials, could lodge legal action in Auckland in the next few weeks.

Government and Auckland iwi are headed to court over plans to sell off up to 500 hectares of surplus Crown land to private developers.

Vested interests are preventing any meaningful solutions to New Zealand’s housing crisis from being proposed or implemented, writes Bryce Edwards.

One of National’s major housing policies has turned into a “slow motion train crash” after iwi confirmed plans to challenge it in court.

Australia's house price gains are expected to slow although prices are unlikely to fall in the near-term, an investment bank says.

Tribes have decided to go to court to challenge the Government's interpretation of "right of first refusal" in light of moves to free up land for private housing developments.

An over-supply of low-quality CBD apartments risks sparking a crash that could see prices plunge.

Proposed housing measures could create an "apartment bubble", the Property Institute warns.

Auckland needs to grow "up" and it needs political leadership to convince those on the isthmus to embrace that growth, writes Bernard Hickey.

The overheated Auckland housing market is causing concern for many, but for law firms the bubble is proving to be a bonus.

The Government has fast-tracked the building of a further 1000 houses and apartments at Hobsonville Pt and about 300 of those will cost less than $550,000.

Three ministers is not enough, writes Toby Manhire. "To have a hope of slaying the many heads of the housing crisis hydra, there may need to be even more new ministers appointed."

Justin Pierce believed he could take risks on people because the vast majority were honest, but he was wrong.

Phil Twyford's reputation has grown as steadily as homeowners' and state house tenants' woes, writes Claire Trevett.

Government plans to fill vacant Crown land with houses are being lambasted by Labour as a fiasco after one of four would-be Auckland sites turned out to be largely council-owned.

Queenstown Lakes District Council boss Adam Feeley has "total integrity", Minister of Building and Housing Nick Smith says.

As Auckland's Herne Bay becomes the first NZ suburb to hit $2 million mark, the Reserve Bank says house prices will rise at a slower pace in coming years.

The prestigious suburb - first to reach the $1 million mark in 2003 - has now set a frightening new benchmark.

A small crowd of about 50 people have turned out at a public meeting in Auckland tonight to discuss looming rates increases.

Personal finance and investing columnist Brent Sheather on the pitfalls of home equity release arrangements or reverse mortgages.

QV's latest figures show NZ house values have risen at the fastest pace in 15 months.