New Zealand’s first reduction in official interest rates for five years has delivered some cuts to mortgage rates. But some rates have gone up, underlining the fragile state of the mortgage market.

House prices fell in Auckland last month while the volume of sales rose, according to Barfoot & Thompson, the city’s biggest real estate firm.

Is it time to start buying real estate at fire-sale prices? In Forecasting for Real Estate Wealth, real estate market trending expert Ed Ross gives you the tools and the knowledge you need to take advantage of the great deals created by falling real estate prices. You'll learn the four questions every real estate investor needs to ask before buying, selling or holding and property.

Numbers of residential real estate sales climbed in June but prices slipped back and rents remained firm around the country, according to the latest Crockers market research report for June.

Every issue of the NZ Property Investor magazine will continue to bring you all the news, tips and statistics you need to keep your property investments humming in 2008.

Diana Clement checks out Xero’s online accounting system and how useful it is for property investors

A series of compromises finally saw the new Real Estate Agents Bill progress through Parliament this week.

The affordability gap between rental and mortgage household affordability is expected to significantly widen in Australia, over the next three years.

CBS Canterbury, the NZAX-listed building society, says it is well placed in "the resilient Canterbury regional economy" to ride through New Zealand's economic recession with its market position enhanced.

New Zealand’s economy, teetering on the brink of recession, has been well-served by the central bank’s policy of targeting inflation, though it has little ability to influence global price surges, according to Governor Alan Bollard

New Zealand’s first reduction in official interest rates for five years has delivered some cuts to mortgage rates. But some rates have gone up, underlining the fragile state of the mortgage market.

There is a new website aiming to be a one-stop shop for landlords and tenants wanting to do business.

This very intuitive, in-depth tool is a gem for property investors, Diana Clement gives us the low-down on this software package

The Reserve Bank today reduced the official cash rate (OCR) from 8.25% to 8.00%.

There has been a huge increase in the amount of property lingering on the market, according to the latest Harcourts newsletter.

The housing market has “stalled at the lights” and unable to move ahead, according to the latest property gauges released by the ANZ Bank.