A new website allows Auckland house-hunters to find their perfect neighbourhood by searching by lifestyle preference.

Drug-detecting dogs are running through the hallways, reception areas and carparks of Parnell's The Mirage apartments.

One of the largest remaining privately owned blocks of land in inner Auckland is for sale.

In a speech to the Property Council this morning the Reserve Bank's deputy governor has gone on a charm offensive over its LVR restrictions.

Westpac has confirmed it is withdrawing mortgage pre-approvals for some customers following the introduction of the Reserve Bank's new lending restrictions.

We need to recognise our vulnerability in the global economy, writes Peter Lyons. The Reserve Bank should be applauded for trying to bring us to our senses.

The Serious Fraud Office is investigating a North Shore residential property development deal after angry investors cried out that places were never built.

National property prices rose by $10,000 in September, taking the median house price back to a record high reached earlier this year.

The world's second-richest royal might soon sell his empty Auckland office block - and the building could become apartments.

New Zealand's most expensive new residential project is nearly finished so billionaire Russian steel magnate Alexander Abramov can holiday there soon.

This $40m hideaway has been designed and built for Alexander Abramov to complement the coastal environment and is completely carbon neutral.

Housing affordability has improved slightly across New Zealand, with Auckland remaining the least affordable region and Southland the most affordable.

Editorial: The Government firmly believes the solution to rising prices lies in increasing the supply of houses, not dampening the demand for them by restricting loans or taxing investments.

An Auckland family have been awarded $147,000 after buying a leaky home in Te Atatu in 2009.

Sites of the Takapuna houses from last year's The Block renovation show are earmarked for buildings of at least four-storeys in the proposed Unitary Plan.

The first batch of 6000 new homes for fast-track residential development in Auckland has got a lukewarm response from property experts.

A hard-nosed attitude by the Cornwall Park Trust Board is destroying property values, says one lessee.

Eight homeowners have abandoned exclusive Auckland leasehold properties to the Cornwall Park Trust Board.

More and more homeowners are paying thousands of dollars to have their houses dressed before putting them on the market.

A chip off The Block will be up for grabs after the TV3 show's four renovated homes have been sold.

A former Housing New Zealand tenant who claimed to have raised $1 million to buy her home has been ordered to pay back $39,000.

A clifftop bach voted the most eco-friendly in New Zealand is no place to take your hairdrier or straightening iron - it may just blow up the power system.

A controversial Northland luxury housing development on a pristine eastern coastline goes before independent hearing commissioners appointed by Auckland Council on Monday.

There is, of course, already a healthy degree of consensus between central and local government in the form of National's Housing Accord with Auckland Council..

Homeowners who pay to get their house valued on top of insurance bills will be left out of pocket if the estimation is too low - but won't get extra if their premium was based on an overvaluation.