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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.

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.

Officials advised Govt against applying key measures of its housing plan

Ministers were told the bright-line test should be increased to 20 years, not 10.

Focus: Robertson and Ardern defend changes to housing policy

Finance Minister Grant Robertson and PM Jacinda Ardern defend criticism from Judith Collins over bright-line test changes. Video / Mark Mitchell

Skyrocketing house prices could be halted by new rule, pundits say

Investors may be chased out of the market by Government's decision to scrap tax breaks.

'Bizarre, crazy': Landlords shocked at Government's housing plans

'Cost of the mortgage is the biggest single cost for an investor' - Andrew King