Auckland Council's top building official says wide-scale demolition of rotting townhouse units might be the best solution - but many properties can be fixed.

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

Some tenants of million-dollar state homes in some of Auckland's most exclusive suburbs are paying just $50 a week in rent, according to figures obtained by the Herald.

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.

Clever planning turns a dark 70s box into an inviting, shipshape haven for a nautically minded family.

Thieves posing as would-be property buyers stole jewellery from a family during an open home.

It could have been one of the world's cheapest homes with no reserve price at auction. Instead the three-bedroom Hamilton property sold for a respectable price.