The word is that because there is so little to choose from when it comes to finding a property, the mindset among many wannabe movers seems to be “there’s no point selling because there’s nothing to buy”.

Auckland's booming property market is running out of student accommodation. At one inner-city property this week, up to 150 desperate renters queued up at an open home.

House-building approval numbers jumped 16 per cent last year when consents were granted for 24,680 new dwellings.

Auckland: "There are few places on earth one might change so radically and so fast" - Nat Cheshire, architect.

In part four of the Herald series on how to make Auckland better, we look at the pros and cons of health-care in New Zealand's biggest city.

In the third of our five-part Future Auckland series, we aim to stimulate debate.

Prime Minister John Key has said apartments are an option for first-home buyers. Property editor Anne Gibson explores the pros and cons.

Labour leader Andrew Little and Prime Minister John Key are gearing up for their state of the nation speeches on Wednesday.

The strength of Nick Smith's language in his savaging of the RMA prompted immediate concern in the environmental lobby he was trying to manufacture a crisis where there wasn't one.

Study warns that home ownership rates could drop below half in some parts of New Zealand within 20 years.

Precisely the same factors that plunged Ireland into its housing crisis last decade are now in play in NZ and could spark a big correction, says a leading Auckland fund manager.

Renters can strike a bargain when moving into a vacant property but they won't avoid rental price increases, a property expert says.

Renters can strike a bargain when moving into a vacant property but they won't avoid rental price increases, a property expert says.

Renters have been sheltered from the otherwise volatile housing market with rental prices remaining steady over the past months.

Got a problem? Then blame it on the Resource Management Act, writes John Armstrong. "Nick Smith is using the RMA as a smokescreen. The Auckland housing crisis is really a crisis of insatiable demand."

The Government has spelled out its masterplan for reversing skyrocketing house prices across the country - but will the 10-point plan work?

Perched on the edge of the Waitemata Harbour, this three-storey masterpiece in one of Auckland's finest suburbs is up for grabs.

Banks have started cutting interest rates as the busy house-hunting season heats up. So how will it affect would-be home-buyers?

Auckland house values rose at almost twice the rate of the rest of New Zealand, up 9.8 per cent or $68,309 in the last year.

It took longer than it should have before I noticed the name on the letterbox in the middle of Woolleys Bay.

Bigger is better? Not when it comes to the price we're putting on selling smaller homes, according to new figures out from Trade Me.

A three-storey home which boasts a pool with its own pirate ship is up for sale - to anyone who can scrape together a $2,950,000 booty.

An overseas buyer paid more than $17 million for an Auckland mansion in what is now believed to have been the biggest residential property sale of last year.

New figures show Auckland property sales were the biggest in December for a decade - but it seems there's now a severe dearth of listings.

The extraordinary strength of the New Zealand dollar against the aussie wasn't the main reason why Infratil and the New Zealand Superannuation Fund decided to buy RetireAustralia, but it helped.

Robyn and Michael Higgins built their dream home in Wharewaka on the shores of Lake Taupo, and they even included a proper man cave. But a year later, they were hit by tragedy.

Vicky Fulton's Coromandel property comes with an elevator running between the wine cellar and top floor, friendly peacocks in the back yard, and a landing pad and hangar for your helicopter.