Goodman Property Trust is set to become the country’s largest listed property trust after its unit holders backed the purchase of a 50% holding in Auckland’s Highbrook Business Park.

Contrary to the usual year-end pattern, Auckland residential property sales plateaued in October, with the median price up only slightly – from $441,500 to $445,000. However Crockers Property Group says this even this slight rise may be due only to a disproportionate number of high-end property sales.

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Continued slowing of mortgage lending growth adds to the evidence that household demand is responding to higher interest rates, though the lending slowdown is moderate compared to the slowing of housing turnover.

Weekly Home Loan Report: After a succession of increases in mortgage rates over recent weeks several lenders have now cut two year fixed rates.

While office rental growth in New Zealand is the strongest for more than a decade, it has been relatively weak by international standards.

Home Loan Report: The news for homeowners only seems to get gloomier at the moment. Right now mortgage rates are high across the whole market and they don't look like getting cheaper for anytime soon.

Women are becoming sole homeowners and property investors in greater numbers, says a new research report released by Wizard Home Loans.

Westpac bank is predicting “very strong” 6% per annum rent increases amidst an otherwise gloomy outlook for the property market.

Sharply dropping house sales will cause a fall in house prices over the next two years and the regions are in for a housing shock.

The number of house sales rose very modestly for a second month in October following a sequence of very sharp monthly declines, Deutsche Bank data shows.

QV's October statistics report slowing growth in national property values for the second month in a row. QV provides its views of what is happening in each of New Zealand's major urban areas.

Residential property sales volumes recovered in October but low volumes continue to distort residential property statistics, says the Real Estate Institute (REINZ).

Affordable housing providers Mick Palmer, Michael Morel and Lesley Telfer-Morel have announced plans for 660 new house sites in southern Invercargill.

There's much on offer in the Garden City, Colleen Simpson discovers.

Continuing our series on software and technology aids for property investors, Diana Clement reviews Law Access, a wealth of law-related resources.