Scammers cash in on rental shortage
Scammers are targeting people desperate to find new homes in Auckland's rental property shortage.
Scammers are targeting people desperate to find new homes in Auckland's rental property shortage.
Small pockets of prime real estate continue to perform, says Bruce Morris.
Overseas buyers have been staying home the last few summer - and in some parts of the country that's adding to the pressure on house prices. Bruce Morris reports.
A historic 155-year-old Christchurch mansion was reduced to a pile of dust and splintered wood today while the owner and his family looked on with glassy eyes.
Summer is high season for the real estate market, when house-hunters are joined at open homes by people who simply like looking around others' properties for fun. Gill South has a nosy.
Auckland's rental crisis is worsening, with prices rising 7 per cent in a year and desperate tenants going to extreme measures including offering to pay six months' rent in advance.
A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Blue Chip's Mark Bryers for non-payment of a fine.
They won't advertise it, but many real estate agents are already offering cut-price commissions in a bid to secure sales, says a leading property commentator.
Some real estate agents face investigation for allegedly falsely claiming that houses were designed by architects.
Flat-hunters and those wanting a flatmate have been conned by scammers who lure their victims into sending money overseas.
Box Living aims for the higher end of NZ's design-and-build house market.
A solo mother of three children has been given 90 days notice by her landlord and Housing NZ won't open her file for two months.
Rental prices have risen in many areas of Auckland over the past year with a real estate agency expecting another surge because of a shortage.
Demand for rental property in Auckland is at crisis point, with some houses now attracting as many as 200 would-be tenants.
Best performers buck trend of falling house prices since peak back in 2007.
The Real Estate Agents Authority has laid charges against a Wellington property company for allegedly buying and selling property without a licence.
The receiver of South Canterbury Finance (SCF) is welcoming a council to allow a residential development on the outskirts of Christchurch.
An abusive email mistakenly sent by an Albany real estate agent to a client has lead to an official censure.
The former real estate agent found guilty of a $13.5m mortgage scam has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison.