Housing bubbles around the world are likely to burst, but New Zealand could avoid the explosion, National Bank economist says.

The Reserve Bank's new policy targets are likely to keep the Official Cash Rate where it is this week.

The housing market’s buoyancy continued in August when the highest number of sales ever for that month were recorded.

Financial planner Peter Hensley has decided things are so bad in the markets it's time to cash up his clients for a while.

Australian Finance has closed down its local operations New Zealand Finance.

Calan Healthcare Property Trust has been criticised about the high level of its fees. Jenny Ruth investigates to see if they really are high.

ANZ has chopped rates and upped its contribution to legal fees in its spring offence on the home loan market.

Some might view Kiwibank’s growth in the homeloan market as anemic with its book taking six months to grow to $100 million.

Kiwibank has written more than $100 million in home loans so far.

The volume of sales of Auckland homes worth more than $1 million continues to break record levels.

A new beast is looming larger in the mortgage menagerie: a comprehensive back-office support service.

Rising household debt, combined with ballooning house prices are likely to lead to a credit crunch, Bancorp economist Stuart Marshall says.

Consumers' Institute boss David Russell gives his reasons why banks can take such fat margins on floating rate home loans.

Even though global stocks are now some 40% off their highs, the rout in equities markets may not be over Tower Asset Management managing director Paul Bevin says.

A record number of new apartment approvals in July drove overall housing consents to be 62% above the level recorded in July last year.

Tower's Jim Minto wonders what BT Funds Management will be like under the control of a bank.