Total price tag for 11 houses expected to reach at least $50 million in seller's market as locals, immigrants, returning Kiwis, and investors move in.

Cantabrians are setting their sights on Hamilton's housing market as they look to spend their newly received insurance payouts from damaged properties.

It took two days last week to flatten a gully full of native and exotic trees in Auckland's Westmere into a "nuclear wasteland", angering residents.

The number of mortgagee sales in the first half of this year is close to figures last seen in the recession in 2009.

Tenants of New Zealand's most expensive state house - with sweeping views over Auckland's harbour - have been ordered out after one was convicted of benefit fraud.

Some of Auckland's state houses are valued at more than a million dollars by Quotable Value.

North Shore businessman and Rich-lister John Copson has garnered local government support for his big plans to transform Takapuna.

Welcome to the noisiest residential street in Auckland. It's had more noise complaints than streets around the city's largest stadiums.

Does NZ have a housing crisis? Are fees the problem?

More than half of Aucklanders think first-time home buyers should turn their back on the city to get on the property ladder, a Herald-DigiPoll survey shows.

Eleven Auckland suburbs now have average house values of $1 million or more - and New Zealand could have its first $2 million suburb by Christmas.