Auckland property sales reached a 20-month high as the decline in prices helped revive confidence, according to Barfoot & Thompson.

The Registrar of Companies has issued a damning assessment of New Zealand’s failed finance companies, saying many lacked adequate governance and ran their businesses “in a similar manner to Ponzi schemes”.

Reserve Bank of New Zealand Governor Alan Bollard cut the official cash rate by 50 basis points to a record low 3% as expected, signaling the end to the steep easing cycle as the economy hits the bottom of its recession this year.

Reserve Bank of New Zealand Governor Alan Bollard may not cut the official cash rate by as much as expected next week after his counterpart in Australia held its benchmark rate unchanged at 3.25% even as that economy contracted.

Ann Cunninghame meets the new president of the FPIA, Paul O'Brien, and finds out where he wants to take the organisation.

Trying to standardise the way that lenders charge interest and disclose their charges is one of the worthy aims of the Ministry of Consumer Affairs.

NZ First leader Winston Peters says the Office of the Retirement Commissioner has been a total waste of time.

What a great response to our story "Mortgage for a single mother". Some of the replies run below.

Women in senior positions in the superannuation industry have just launched a national body with a key aim of promoting the super needs of women to decision-makers.

This enquiry has come in from a Good Returns reader currently based in the United Arab Emirates. Can we help her out?

Forget autumn: ANZ, for one, still thinks it's hot and has extended its "Summer Breeze" home loan deal until the end of April.

In an effort to beef up efficiencies in the mortgage broking industry, Mortgagenet Director Kieran Trass has developed a separate processing company, MPL, to provide a link between brokers and mortgage lenders.

Confidence: well, we've got plenty of it, if the latest couple of surveys are anything to go by.

Even though house sales for the year to February were the lowest 12-month total since November 1992, there are growing signs that the market has bottomed out.

Which way are mortgage interest rates heading? We summarise what's been happening and round up the latest predictions.

The REAL name will continue in real estate, even though the original network has gone into receivership.