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Auckland house prices up 1.5pc
The average selling price for homes in the Auckland market rose by 1.5 per cent last month, says the region's biggest real estate agency Barfoot and Thompson.
The average selling price for homes in the Auckland market rose by 1.5 per cent last month, says the region's biggest real estate agency Barfoot and Thompson.
A scheme has been launched to encourage Aucklanders to buy big new planned Christchurch houses for $640,000, as a financial watchdog reminds investors.
Auckland real estate asking prices fell 2 per cent last month even as longer-term sale prices continued to soar, according to Realestate.co.nz.
A council has gone to extreme lengths to create safer neighbourhoods by preventing home owners from building garages ahead of the house, and forcing more living on to the front yard with little privacy.
Just over four months ago, printer Layton Armstrong and vet Charmaine Abraham began house-hunting in the Otahuhu/Mt Wellington area, looking at places going for about $400,000.
A real estate agent is alleged to be the central link in a drug-dealing enterprise which supplied methamphetamine throughout the country.
Editorial: In one swoop, all houses built before World War II will be deemed to have special merit. Never mind that in any period a mixture of good, average and awful homes are built.
The Auckland Council is considering a ban on demolishing tens of thousands of heritage and character homes unless owners can prove they are beyond repair.
An Auckland developer says Chinese are using property as a ticket into this country because owning real estate increases immigration visa points.
Police and fire safety officers are investigating the cause of a blaze that destroyed an upmarket Auckland home, almost killing the owner.
Auckland currently has capacity for thousands of dwellings on existing greenfield land, writes Len Brown. "So the issue is clearly more than just land supply."
It's almost as good as claiming Lotto's first-division prize - hot homes in Auckland's frantic housing market are selling well above their official valuations.
A Remuera split-level home is tucked in the bush, finds Joanna Smith.
Fed-up Aucklanders are reinvigorating stagnant seaside property markets as they buy up retreats from city life.
This two-storey concrete block-and-cedar-clad home has seductive views of Tamaki Estuary and the Hauraki Gulf.
This stylishly restored villa with wide views over Ngataringa Bay makes a superb family home.
Home buyers are being urged to challenge estate agents who claim houses are architecturally designed after new moves that relax how properties can be marketed.