Phantom bidding at house auctions hit the headlines across the ditch last week when a Melbourne magistrate slammed the practice as "evil, deceitful and misleading."

New Zealanders’ appetite for debt, mostly put to use in buying property, seems to have at last abated after a decade of giddy growth, according to the Reserve Bank.

Reserve Bank Governor Don Brash left the official cash rate (OCR) unchanged at 5.75% this morning as most economists had expected.

Has New Zealand’s interest rate market fundamentally changed and does that mean attitudes towards floating versus fixed rates should change as well?

Most economists are expecting Reserve Bank governor Don Brash to keep interest rates steady on Wednesday when he reviews the official cash rate (OCR), even though the economy didn't grow last quarter.

An Auckland-based mortgage broking firm has just significantly undercut the market with a one-year fixed rate of 6.45%.

Cairns Lockie explains three major problems with a housing tax.

A team reviewing the New Zealand tax system at the behest of the Labour-Alliance government is urging an annual tax on housing.

Housing sales remain strong, even though the number sold in May fell slightly from April and the median house price slipped.

A new product has hit the market for people who have difficulty accessing mortgage finance.

National Bank, which has long called for more and more aggressive rate cuts, now admits it’s unlikely it will get one in July.

PSIS is about to introduce fixed rate home loans to its existing floating rate product and will allow people to mix fixed and floating rates on individual loans, says chief executive John Price.

Anyone trying to use the internet to narrow the search for a residential property without having to go to endless numbers of "open homes" will quickly find a proliferation of New Zealand sites.

People’s confidence about the housing market surged in the three months ended April, partly fuelled by declining interest rates, according to the ASB Bank’s latest survey.

Don’t hold your breath about getting a bargain home loan from The Warehouse in the near future

Capped rate loans about to come into vogue.