Housing crisis: Desperate first-home buyers bid at two auctions at once
Two sisters risked accidentally buying two houses in a bid to get on the property ladder.
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Developer who owes $1m to contractors selling luxury apartments
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Opinion: Labour tax changes - Broken promises and a socialist agenda
Even the IRD argued against the changes.
Frances Cook: You can get help to boost your first home deposit - but is it enough?
A big problem requires big solutions.
Brian Fallow: Who'll feel the property pinch?
Latest moves to help new buyers could cut house prices, boost rents — or a bit of both.
Closed borders push crane numbers down 8pc on record
'We are in a much better position than we'd anticipated' - Chris Haines.
Vendors told $1.45m, buyers told $1.1m: Agent guilty
'You shaved another $100k of our property without discussing this with us' - vendors.
Mark Thomas: Time to build smarter
Opinion: Solutions are here - and widely used overseas - why are we so slow on the uptake?
Chlöe Swarbrick: Hard work is no longer enough to get you a home
OPINION: Newsflash: the 33pc of Kiwis who rent are no less hard-working than investors.
Auckland real estate agent suspended for misconduct
Agent 'should have been alert to the dishonesty of the Greenhithe/Royal Oak deals'.
Sasha Borissenko: What property do the PM and our MPs own?
Are New Zealand's representatives really "in touch" with the everyday New Zealander?
'Whacked' with huge costs: $16.3m to fix units
'Sadly...the complex has significant original design, construction failings"
Tenders close on $50m Halfway Bay Station
It's now a case of the owners wading through the offers.
Editorial: It's important in NZ we all get 'a fair suck of the sav'
EDITORIAL: After a year of Covid, supposedly egalitarian NZ faces a "values stress test".
Matt Heath: NZ, we need to talk about our real estate obsession
OPINION: Here's how not to be happy: focus on the things you don't have.
Hamish Rutherford: Housing policy brings the return of uncertainty
Changes to housing policy resurrects doubts that Labour had battled to shake off.
Liam Dann: The great New Zealand house-price delusion
Kiwi attitudes to share investing have matured - now it's time to grow up about housing.
Letters: Broken promises and unempathetic leader
Labours broken promises and Nat's unempathetic leader.
Investors stay away from South Auckland open homes after Govt housing shake-up
Three open homes visited by the Herald drew just one potential buyer between them.
'Some builders could go under' as timber shortage hits major supplier
Carter Holt Harvey reportedly can't supply timber because of the house construction spike.
John Roughan: Housing market could take lessons from the Treaty
OPINION: The Treaty of Waitangi was a massive intervention in the property market.
Business as usual in housing market, says real estate agency
No auctions have been brought forward to avoid bright-line change, Wellington agent says.
$500m-$1b more tax: How much new rental property rules could bring in
ASB has crunched the numbers on the Government's new housing policy.
'Rare jewel': Beautiful English manor house in Auckland for sale
Stunning home recreates English country manor life in the heart of Auckland.
Housing shake up: all eyes on South Auckland to see if investors exit market
Home sellers question if they should rush through sales before the weekend's tax changes.
Brian Fallow: Shooting the property investors' sacred cow
It's better to limit runaway house prices now, before they do even more damage.
British tax change 'nowhere near as severe' as here: landlord
'Tax system favours debt-driven residential property investment' - David Parker.
Toeing the bright-line: IRD reveals number of house sales in its sights
Rental properties sold within the last four years will fall under bright-line regime.
12-house landlord reveals plan to combat rental property tax changes
12-house landlord can reduce $16,000 per year tax bill to almost zero dollars.
Top economist questions Treasury's 'time constraints' on major housing policy
Cameron Bagrie says Treasury had four months to prioritise interest deductibility policy.
Christchurch still a first-home buyer's market
Chch is one of the few markets where the price threshold won't shift under Govt's scheme.
First-home buyers big winners, prices 'could tumble 10pc'
Investors have been targeted with tax changes to help stem soaring house prices.
'Chilling effect': New policies risk impacting on wider economy
New housing policies will slow the housing market but could they also slow the economy?
Concerns Government housing policy could increase rents
There are concerns that the changes do not address the plight of renters.