
Protection for home buyers
House buyers and sellers are more protected from dodgy agent dealings than before.
House buyers and sellers are more protected from dodgy agent dealings than before.
When Gaylene Mackereth left her home in Howick on a trip to the beach with her granddaughter recently, she paid a bit more attention than usual to the houses they passed.
The average New Zealand home owner could pick themselves up a lovely four-bedroom farm house in Brittany, France, or perhaps a 40-bedroom hotel in Veliko Tarnovo in Bulgaria.
Auckland house prices are predicted to rise a further 12 per cent over the next year, with the nationwide average jumping almost $40,000 by the end of the year.
British ministers came under fire over benefit cuts as the independent body representing 1200 English housing associations described the controversial bedroom tax as bad policy.
Large parts of the country's building stock will be off-limits for disabled people under a proposal to trim the cost of upgrading thousands of earthquake-prone buildings, advocacy groups have warned.
The Bankers Association is critical of Reserve Bank proposals to increase the amount of capital banks have to hold against home loans with a high loan-to-value ratio (LVR).
Hobsonville is the sort of public-private partnership that when it comes to roads and schools buildings, this Government actively promotes, writes Brian Rudman.
Auckland Council and the Government will create a working party to look at urgent issues relating to the city's housing crisis.
Homeowners looking to cash in on the skyrocketing prices of their central Auckland properties could be the reason for a levelling off or fall in rental costs.
Damien Grant believes selling in an overheated market is a smart move but paying 3 per cent of the asset's value to a real estate agent isn't.
A large slice of prime beachfront real estate is shaping up as the next battleground for those opposed to multilevel housing.
A new strategy is needed if we want young families to be able to buy homes as their parents and grandparents did, writes Jeff Walters. Unfortunately, there is no quick fix.
Businessman and magazine editor Tyler Brule says Waiheke Island reminds him of Tuscany.
A World War II soldier's smart investment in prime Auckland land has provided a windfall for his family 80 years later.
The towns of Pukekohe and Warkworth and communities served by the Northwestern Motorway are among rural areas earmarked to contribute to Auckland's population.
Aucklanders have never embraced the kind of concentrated living arrangements envisioned in the Unitary Plan, writes Dick Quax.
Developers could receive ratepayer subsidies to build $1 million-plus apartments at a swanky housing development at Wynyard Quarter on the Auckland waterfront.
New Housing Minister Nick Smith is vowing to break the "stranglehold" of Auckland Council's policy of containing urban sprawl .
Affordable housing will be missing when Auckland Mayor Len Brown unveils plans today for a swanky new housing development at Wynyard Quarter on the waterfront.
To get a feel for what lies ahead in the field of bricks and mortar, Bruce Morris puts questions to three housing market experts.
Fifty million dollars worth of new homes are set to be built in Tauranga after being given council approval over summer.
Leaky home owners in Tauranga face paying more than $25 million to weatherproof their homes.
Landlords are crying poor and seeking financial assistance in the face of proposals to strengthen thousands of old buildings.