A group representing 110 lessees with houses on Cornwall Park Trust Board land through Greenlane and One Tree Hill has rejected a proposal to change their lease terms.

Instead of using KiwiSaver to buy your first house but be tied to one place, get a home on wheels and wake up to a new view every morning. But is this a possibility?

Land tax might be one of the answers to reducing tax incentives for rental property investors, writes Bernard Hickey.

Head-to-head bidders are paying tens of thousands of dollars more at auctions than they would for fixed price homes, new figures reveal.

The case for taxing the income of residential property investors is compelling.

The survey's index lifted four points from its March level to 129. It has only rarely been higher than this in the past 10 years.

Amidst the debate around the effects of a capital gains tax on the Auckland property market, TV show 'Our First Home' has proven useful.

Soaring property costs will mean more New Zealanders are likely to experience hardship in retirement.

John Key claims the Auckland housing market is not overvalued and that high prices are the result of market forces. What do you think? Have your say here.

If you are buying a home using KiwiSaver funds what are the regulations around living in the home for the first six months?

The Cornwall Park Trust Board has proposed sweeping changes to the leases on 110 Auckland properties it owns, including axing five-yearly mandatory house repainting demands.

It has a CV of $5.2 million and sits on 2591sq m of prime land at the end of a small cul-de-sac off Mountain Rd on the eastern slopes of Mt Eden.

Developers who have been sitting on Auckland land earmarked for fast-tracked housing are being warned to start building or lose their special privileges.

Thousands of property owners are now sitting on million-dollar goldmines thanks to rampant capital gain.

A three-bedroom North Shore "do-up" has earned its owner nearly $1000 a day - just shy of the salary of a High Court judge - in Auckland's red-hot property market.

The average Auckland home earned nearly $230 a day in the past year - about twice what the average worker made in their job.

Regulatory moves to curb bank lending to residential property investors are a live possibility, says Reserve Bank deputy governor Grant Spencer.

Andrew Little says a speech from the Reserve Bank deputy governor was effectively saying there was a housing crisis – something John Key had refused to accept.

For the first time in a single month, 10 per cent of all properties sold around the country went for more than $1 million.

Prototype display suites have been built of the first Wynyard Quarter residential precinct, planned for near Auckland's waterfront.

A fight has erupted over one of New Zealand's biggest leaky building payouts, as 253 owners of a North Shore apartment/hotel tower battle one another.

One of the country's largest off-site housing prefabricators, eHome NZ, owes secured creditors $13.9 million.

The rural property market has remained remarkably resilient in the face of lower farm-gate prices and dry summer conditions, with prices - by some measures - returning to pre-global financial crisis....

Prefabricated homes offering up to 15 per cent reductions in building costs are gaining a powerful boost from a green think-tank seeking sustainable ways of tackling the housing crisis.

Repairs have begun to one of Auckland's largest leaky apartment complexes.