Rents in Auckland appear to be slowly but surely edging upward, the latest market research by Crockers reveals.

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Dunedin offers cheaper property than many other centres, complemented by a ready populace of renters in the form of students, who comprise a fifth of the city’s population, Kristine Walsh reports.

The total number of residential dwelling consents rose strongly in May – by 5.5% to 2,265, after a 0.5% increase in April.

Real estate agents are up in arms over the changes taking place in the real estate industry, with proposed changes to the Real Estate Agents Act.

A court case involving tenants under threat of eviction from their Auckland state house has implications for landlords, says Scotney Williams, principal of Tenancy Practice Service.

A freshly released Environment Court decision looks as if it may be the final court case in a long running dispute between a local developer, Estate Homes, and the Waitakere City Council.

It became easier to buy a home in Waikato-Bay of Plenty, Southland and parts of Otago in the three months to May 31.

Residential construction sites in Tauranga will be the focus of a series of unannounced visits by teams of Health & Safety Inspectors from the Department of Labour next month.

"If the Government wished to take the serious step of ring-fencing residential property investment losses it would surely need to dish out the same treatment for all investment and trading losses," says Iain Blakeley, Tax Director at Ernst & Young.

The recent softening of net permanent and long-term migrant inflows continued in May, the latest Deutsche Bank research reveals.

The national network of property conveyancers, conveyIT, is now in partnership with New Zealand’s largest online marketplace Trade Me, to provide legal information to Trade Me property buyers.

While key players in the property industry agree with REINZ president Murray Cleland's comments on releasing the latest institute sales figures that the market is slowing down, they say there is no cause for property investors to get excited.

Residential property market prices set a new record in May, although they rose at a lower rate than previous months’ frantic growth rates, says the Real Estate Institute (REINZ).

What's happening to house prices around the regions.

The Ombudsman is being asked to investigate the Auckland City Council’s refusal to release any information about its development contributions policy to the Property Council of New Zealand.