Interests closely associated with Mark Hotchin still control an opulent $9.8m Waiheke Island beachhead.

Auckland is patchy, and elsewhere it's worse. Everywhere, demand is measly in a buyers' market. Bruce Morris reports.

Many coastal areas were not included in our QV tables because sales volumes were so low, explains Bruce Morris.

If owning coastal money is your dream, the time could be right to buy, but putting your money in the bank will give a better financial return, says Bruce Morris.

Summer's here and coastal property is back in focus. So how is it going out there at the beach? For the most part, it's looking rather dire, writes Bruce Morris.

The bill setting up the framework for the Govt's $1bn leaky homes package gets its first reading in Parliament today.

I worry that the banks are trying to unleash those animal spirits in the housing markets again.

NZ property values are beginning to stabilise, but are still 5.6 per cent below the market peak in 2007.

The housing market has started to simmer again.

There was 7.3pc increase in house listings last month, but a big glut of unsold real estate is still weighing heavily on the market.

Kiwibank has cut its 2 year fixed mortgage rate to 6.59pc, to try and spice up housing demand.

A real estate agent must pay $1500 and undergo ethics training after replacing a private 'for sale' sign with one of his own.

Adri Noom has been told the proposed Puhoi-to-Wellsford highway route runs right through his house near Warkworth.