Boom or bust? Property writer Anne Gibson looks at predictions for the year.

Buyers - rich and not so rich - have almost unprecedented opportunities this summer to nab their very own pieces of cut-price paradise.

A new kind of real estate agent – known as an EcoBroker - has entered the Kiwi housing market.

A man who lived in a state house while he rented out two properties of his own has been sentenced for defrauding the taxpayer.

Harcourts CEO has predicted a marked improvement in property prices in provincial and coastal areas in 2010.

We're buying a bach for Christmas," announced my husband to the gathering.

An elite number of homeowners shelled out over $3m for new homes in the past year, despite being in the midst of a credit crunch.

Home loan affordability worsened in Auckland and Northland for first home buyers last month.

House prices stayed static in the last two months and fears of more expensive mortgage money could be to blame.

House prices across New Zealand rose a slim 0.2 per cent in November, says the Real Estate Institute, but those in Auckland have soared nearly 12 per cent over the past year.

One in three people viewing realestate.co.nz earlier this year searched the words "mortgagee sale", hunting a bargain ripe for plucking.

Sir Edmund Hillary's home has been saved from the wrecker's ball and will be moved to the school that bears the famous New Zealander's name.