A new development boundary for Auckland has been welcomed by the city’s property investors association but president David Whitburn says it doesn’t go far enough.

Sellers haven’t been put off by the colder months this year, according to data from Realestate.co.nz.

A complaint from a would-be buyer who said a real estate agent snapped up his dream home should never have been made public before it had been properly dealt with, the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand says.

The days of property purchasers enlisting the help of a knowledgeable relative to do a "building inspection" on a house they are thinking about buying are numbered.

Just 5% of the country's rental housing stock has been insulated under the Government's Warm Up New Zealand scheme.

Tenants are flocking to a new bond guarantee scheme that allows them to cut the cost of paying a rental property bond, says CBL Insurance’s Richard Blake.

Westpac says that if the Official Cash Rate doesn’t rise by July 2013, the country’s housing market could go from warm to “positively frothy”.

A radio advertisement for Property Brokers did not meet the standards of financial advertising, the Advertising Standards Authority says.

ASB has agreed to a new 12-year lease term in its Dominion Rd, Auckland national support centre premises, which are being sold through a proportionate ownership scheme.

Property investment guru Olly Newland says radical thinking is needed to solve New Zealand’s housing affordability problem.

Price gains in Auckland City are flowing through to lifestyle and rural properties around the region, says Barfoot and Thompson.

New Zealand Institute of Economic Research economist Shamubeel Eaqub says his friends don't listen to him when he tells them not to buy houses.

ANZ says the New Zealand property market is finely balanced, although there are still more factors putting upwards pressure on house prices than likely to push prices down.

New technology that allows credit card payments to be made via smartphone may help property managers keep on top of rent arrears.

Debate over the Government’s accommodation supplement is heating up.

Changes to the Unit Titles Act haven’t had the consequences that were expected, says Denise Marsden, partner at legal firm Alexander Dorrington.