Christchurch's Boxing Day aftershocks and the recent wet weather have seen more than 1000 claims lodged with the Earthquake Commission.

The Law Commission is taking aim at New Zealanders' widespread use of family trusts.

A publicity-shy businesswoman has spent $15 million buying Remuera's historic Fairholm mansion in New Zealand's biggest private home sale of the year.

A Supreme Court ruling has left NZ's 1.4 million ratepayers more exposed in the leaky-building fiasco.

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.

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.