New Zealand’s house prices rose 2.4% in the three months ended December, bringing the 2002 increase to 10.4%, according to provisional data from Quotable Value New Zealand.

New Zealand Mortgage Funds says its latest product has been a hit with brokers.

Kiwibank has admitted its advertising promoting ‘cheaper home loans guaranteed’ was likely to mislead following an investigation by the Commerce Commission.

Jenny Ruth reviews all the latest statistics and concludes that the housing boom looks set to continue.

Jenny Ruth reviews the latest statistics and concludes everything points towards a continued housing boom.

The National Bank has upset brokers by not providing brokers with full information about some of the commissions it pays.

Heaps of new apartments are being built at present,a ccording to the latest stats.

Royal & SunAlliance's mortgage insurance business, which has just secured a deal with Westpac, is keeping mum on its future.

The latest AMP/Massey Home Affordability survey shows that it is continuting to get more difficult to buy homes.

Homeowners can be reasonably confident interest rates won’t rise this year and they can even hope for a rate cut following today’s Reserve Bank statement.

Homeowners can be reasonably confident interest rates won’t rise this year and they can even hope for a rate cut following today’s Reserve Bank statement.

An increasing number of people think house prices will keep rising but that is now being countered by more people doubting it’s a good time to buy, according to ASB Bank’s latest survey of housing confidence.

The latest stats from REINZ show that house prices cooled in December.

Economists are expecting the Reserve Bank to leave the OCR unchaged this week, however some reckon the rate will fall in June.

Mortgage brokers have a more diverse range of clients than they used to, NZMBA chairman Brian Berry says.

Housing consents plummeted a seasonally adjusted 27% in November from October, but practically all the decline represented the return to more normal monthly levels of consents for new apartments.