A far more bearish picture of the housing market has emerged today, in contrast to what the Real Estate Institute painted on Friday. QV says the residential property market has gone nowhere in the past year, and the signs are it will get worse.

The latest Quotable Value statistics are out for June. To view your region quickly, click on the links below.

The residential property market may bottom out over the next couple of months and rally again in spring, according to the latest Real Estate Institute (REINZ) statistics.

The Real Estate Institute sales figures for June are out now. To read what's happening in your region and around the country, use the links in this story.

Staff from non-commission agencies have been deserting in droves to join traditional, commission-based real estate agencies, while buyers and sellers are also preferring to deal with conventional agencies.

Finally it seems there is some good news for borrowers at the moment. After a long period of rising home loan rates there are clear signs that things area turning around.

Business confidence is slipping once more, but property managers remain upbeat, according to the latest monthly BNZ Survey results.

Hamilton is New Zealand’s largest inland city and is home to one of the richest agricultural and pastoral areas in the world.

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House prices in Auckland fell last month though the full extent of a downturn in the property market may still be to come, according to Shamubeel Eaqub, director of Australia & New Zealand investment research at Goldman Sachs JBWere (NZ).

As sellers fail to sell their homes, a surge of rental properties has come onto the market across all regions, says First National’s John Stewart, although precise numbers are hard to quantify.

Just as we had got accustomed to the idea that the worst might be over for mortgage rates, the market has sprung another surprise.

A comparison of residential house price yields across the Tasman has turned up interesting results, with both New Zealand and Australia showing they're good places to invest, but for different reasons.

Can doing your own property tax really be made easy? Diana Clement looks at an online tax tool that claims to do just that, and gives us the pros and cons.

Michael Yardney gives seldom shared insights into his thoughts on how to become a super successful property investor and what separates the successful property investor from the average investor.

Rate changes have slowed to a trickle over the past week as the mortgage market settled following the latest cut in funding costs.