The Cornwall Park Trust Board has proposed a new "modern lease" to resolve long-running dissatisfaction from Greenlane and One Tree Hill residents.

PM John Key yesterday accepted there may be merit in gathering more data on foreign ownership of NZ housing as Opposition criticism mounts.

One of the world's biggest and oldest insurers is underwriting a new building warranty insurance scheme being launched in New Zealand.

A leader of Auckland's disabled community believes she may be in the first batch of 800 state house tenants being targeted for possible eviction.

Producers of The Block NZ may have chosen the wrong street for the next series as residents continue fighting the hit DIY show.

House prices around the country have hit a new high with the median price now topping $440,000 but sales are down 10% on last year. (+infographic)

The hidden cost and hassle of going flatting has boosted business for a chain of new-style boarding houses on former suburban office sites.

First-home buyers may be squeezed out but property prices in Auckland remain high as one agency reports record average sale prices.

The number of first-home buyers in the market has declined since mortgage-lending restrictions came in. So where are the worst-hit centres? Use our infographic.

Mortgage loan restrictions are making the "bank of Mum and Dad" so popular that one bank is running seminars on the best way for people to structure the deals.

The damage inflicted on US households by the collapse of the housing market and recession wasn't evenly distributed.

Property values increased at the slowest annual pace in six months in March as high-debt lending restrictions and interest rate hikes weighed on the market.

The bubble word is increasingly being used to describe residential property markets in many countries, writes Brian Gaynor.

City planners are eyeing almost 16,000 new homes across Greater Auckland - the equivalent of a town the size of Cambridge - to attack the city's housing shortage.

Auckland residential property sales rebounded strongly in March after a soft February, according to the city's largest realtor.

A luxury waterfront Herne Bay home has sold for $800,000 less than its dated valuation.

A "financial coaching" company which can avoid new mortgage-lending limits placed on banks is offering 100 per cent finance to families wanting to buy their first home.

An Auckland man who paid a former golfing buddy hundreds of thousands of dollars in "grossly" overcharged legal fees says the ordeal has cost him health and almost everything he owns.

New Zealand is on a list of the top 10 most searched for countries by Chinese house-hunters, figures compiled from China's largest property search engine reveal.

A Parnell group is upset about approval for a big new apartment building, saying office workers' cars already clog their street.

The Cornwall Park Trust board, which owns a slew of Greenlane and One Tree Hill properties, wants to freeze the assets of a woman it is suing after she abandoned her house.

A couple who paid $913,000 for a leaky Meadowbank house fought for four years to get it reclad after an earlier repair continued to let water into the home.

Average Auckland apartment sale prices rose more than a third in the past two years yet rents were static. But that could be about to change.

More mortgage holders are opting to split their home loans into fixed and floating rate portions after the recent cash rate increase, say banks.

Tough new mortgage lending rules have seen house prices dip in suburbs that usually appeal to first-time buyers.

Without hard data, a debate about policy can slide off into dangerous places that lead to bad decisions. We're at that point with foreign ownership of homes, writes Bernard Hickey.

There is fresh controversy for the new series of DIY reality TV show The Block, with reports multi-storey houses will be built for the first time on the show.

Around $47,000 could be shaved off the cost of each new place built in factories under Labour's planned KiwiBuild 100,000-house scheme, an opposition spokesman says.

A Housing New Zealand apartment complex has opened in Auckland and already received praise from its mostly elderly residents.

Auckland landlords are making more capital gains off their rental properties than those elsewhere, a trend predicted to speed up in the next few years.