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Mystique to 'magic' Coatesville home

A Coatesville villa that may have once been home to artist Charles Frederick Goldie is on the market for nearly $2.7 million.

KiwiSaver: Helping grandchildren into first home

A reader writes: I intend to settle a cash sum on each of my grandchildren on my demise. What fish hooks exist if I place a lump sum in a KiwiSaver account for each?

David Seymour: Auckland Council needs to stop and take a breath

A few weeks ago Auckland Council voted by a narrow majority to impose grotesquely large rate increases on thousands of Auckland's ratepayers.

Ground heat keeps new castle warm

How to heat a castle? That was the challenge for Christchurch engineer Alan Cooke when he got the job at Riverstone Castle being built by Dot Smith outside Oamaru.

Public transport key to housing projects

Hundreds of new homes will be developed on Housing Corporation land in some Auckland suburbs, including Avondale, New Lynn and South Auckland.

Alexandra Park property plan gains pace

Alexandra Park's chief executive Dominique Dowding said apartments would be for sale from February and she predicted occupation of the Green Lane West Rd places by the end of 2016.

$3m slice of paradise

A 7.8ha coastal section owned by descendants of one of the original settler families of Mangawhai is on the market for the first time in 125 years.

New homes to bust land hoarders

Expectation is a powerful thing. It's the reason 45,000 sections in Auckland are sitting there ready to go, with all the connections to water, power and roads - but no houses.

Landlords' top suburbs

Landlords with properties in Otara, Mangere, Glen Innes and Mangere Bridge are reaping Auckland's highest returns.

Kids' flying fox irks residents

The days of children screaming in delight as they whiz along a flying fox might be numbered at one Auckland housing development.

Low-deposit loan seekers hit hard

Home buyers seeking low-deposit mortgages could find it even tougher to secure funds after Kiwibank said it was suspending new loans.

KiwiBank halts low equity lending

NZ's cheapest homes revealed

A humble road in central Kawerau has been revealed as a bargain hunter's dream, laying claim to the cheapest stretch of residential real estate anywhere in New Zealand.

NZ's most expensive street

Nestled in an exclusive Herne Bay cul-de-sac are 12 luxury homes which can collectively lay claim to New Zealand's most expensive street.

English flags 'challenge' to surplus

Finance Minister Bill English has warned that returning to surplus this year will be a challenge due to falling dairy prices and low inflation.

$12m chunk of Remuera on market

A chunk of land in big enough for 30 to 60 homes, and in one of Auckland's most affluent suburbs, is on the market.

Hand-up with rates bills going begging

Low-income ratepayers in Auckland got more than $10 million of state aid to help pay last year's rates bills.

State house plan hit by high costs

The number of state houses has dropped by 1600 in the past three years as grand plans for more state homes in Auckland appear to have been hit by rising land values.