The residential property market bounced back to achieve a new record national median price in February, Real Estate Institute (REI) data reveals.

For the first time in more than six years, the annual increase in housing assets (10.4%) was outstripped by gains in financial assets (10.6%).

Housing has become significantly less affordable in many centres says Arcus chief economist Rozanna Wozniak.

Weekly Home Loan Report: Lenders have started to push up the cost of home loans following the increase in the official cash rate from 7.25% to 7. 5% last Thursday.

Housing market buoyancy is contributing to economic pressures that prompted the Reserve Bank to increase the Official Cash Rate last Thursday and warn that it is considering other ways to bring the market to heel.

House price increases have rebounded as has the average sale price according to the latest figures from QV.

As rents begin trending upward and competition for rental properties heats up between tenants, a company across the Tasman has devised an innovative system to help landlords get maximum benefit from the demand.

Following the Reserve Bank’s (RB) hiking of the official cash rate yesterday, it highlighted that investigations into other ways to cool the housing market are underway.

Reserve Bank (RB) Governor Alan Bollard says a resurgence in the housing market is supporting strengthening domestic demand, which is bad for inflation.

A leading Auckland real estate agent says that house prices growth contines, but rents remain static.

New research shows property plays a central role in the wealth strategies of women surveyed across four countries.

With the Reserve Bank (RB) poised to raise rates to 7.50% tomorrow, economists are saying this will dent housing market activity.

Landlords are being offered a 55% subsidy on a full house retrofit of insulation and other energy efficiency measures for their rental properties.

A widening gap between rents and house prices is being attributed to falling mortgage rates and a rise in the top marginal tax rate.

While a dramatic fall in rental property yields has been cited as evidence that the rental housing market must be out of equilibrium, economists say its not overvalued or in a bubble.

The market is currently pricing a 93% probability of a rate hike in March, and a high probability of a follow up move by the Reserve Bank (RB) when it reviews the official cash rate (OCR) later this week.