Entry-level housing is now considered affordable in every region except Auckland, where the price has jumped by 38.2 per cent in the past two years.

A Chinese couple have taken a novel approach to quickly building Auckland homes - using a crane to swing four new units into place over just two days.

Watch as four new, million dollar homes are lifted into place on a Devonport site over just one weekend.

Watch this aerial view of four new, million dollar homes are lifted into place on a Devonport site over just one weekend.

The house was listed on Trade Me last week at a fee of about $500 - but despite rampant demand for Auckland real estate, the property had just two inquiries.

Auckland iwi Ngati Whatua has confirmed it will seek a judicial review of Government’s plan to sell off Crown land to private developers.

Rent hikes in Auckland have bucked the national trend, reaching a median weekly high of $490, Trade Me data shows.

A tenants' watchdog has warned rent increases risk pricing people out of Auckland's heated housing market, sparking homelessness and social problems.

The floodgates are set to open for Chinese buyers to pour billions into NZ real estate as restrictions on privately held capital are eased: report.

The idea of an urban development authority, touted by experts for at least a decade, may again fall on deaf ears, writes Brian Rudman.

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.

Auckland will not solve the city's affordable housing crisis by loosening heritage rules, says the heritage lobby.

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.

If you're an Aucklander and you own a house, you've probably given yourself a little congratulatory hug this week, writes Heather du Plessis-Allan.

Major banks are set to drop deposit thresholds for apartments, making it easier for cash-strapped first-home hunters to get a foot in Auckland's rampant property market.