Auckland’s median weekly rent for residential property has not moved in six months, while the number of  rentals has skyrocketed.

Wholesale property investment companies have been warned by the FMA over their marketing and whether wholesale investors are genuine.

The Property Investors’ Federation has laid out the costs of different kinds of rentals.

Landlords need to be prepared – for basically anything –  at a time when the market has turned in favour of tenants, some rents are falling and in some areas rentals are staying on the market for longer.

While building consents are dropping year-on-year, costs are hitting record highs and expected to even hit double digits by the end of the year.

Across the country the average house price last month was down annually for the first time in a decade, says QV.

The biggest hotel deal in New Zealand’s history has seen Auckland’s Stamford Plaza sold for a record $170 million.

The housing market failed to thaw in the first month of spring.

Auckland residential property sales by Barfoot & Thompson, the city’s biggest agency, were slightly higher than in August, but still the worst for a September month since 2008.

A plan to fill so called ‘ghost homes’ has been scrapped by the Government after it paid for a $500,000 trial and investigation by Wise Group.

The new building consent frenzy is over.

Property managers are in the gun for asking potential renters to share more information than is legally allowed to secure a home, helping shape the case for regulation.

A new source of inflationary pressure could be on its way.

A landlord who was alerted by police to substantial damage at their rental caused by the tenant’s marijuana growing operation has been awarded $14,066 by the Tenancy Tribunal.

Residential rentals have turned to a tenants’ market, even though rents took off again in July, rising by 2% nationally to sit at $580 a week.

The housing market downturn is in full swing, with most of the country’s suburbs recording a fall in property values in the past three months, with only small and rural areas proving the exception.