Q. I have been intrigued by your constant remarks suggesting that your readers and the public in general use the services of fund managers rather than rely on their own intelligence.

Retirement Commissioner Diana Crossan has warned homeowners to beware of taking out mortgages that may soon be unaffordable because of rising interest rates.

Press Release: North Shore City

Most businesses in New Zealand are made up of small to medium enterprises, which are predominately owned or controlled by the persons working within them.

House buyers refused to heed Reserve Bank warnings against increased spending and pushed prices up by $5000 across the country last month.

Press Release: ING NZ

The financial system faces a rockier road ahead because of rising household debt levels and the burgeoning current-account deficit, Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard warned today.

House prices continued to rise in October despite the Reserve Bank's best efforts to put the brakes on the housing market.

Press Release: Property Council Of New Zealand

Press Release: Harcourts

AMP Property Portfolio has won the battle for the country's fourth largest listed property investor but is still fighting to get full control of landlord Capital Properties.

Wairoa tenants and landlords will get tenancy services in their town next year.

An American who made more than one million dollars off a land deal in Queenstown has become the first person convicted for breaching the rules for foreign investors. Lance Weller faces a fine of $17,000, plus $5,000 in costs, after failing to fulfil a promise he made to plant trees on his property. Instead he built a holiday home which he subsequently sold for more than $1 million. The Overseas Investment Office says the successful prosecution should serve as a warning for others. Professor Peter Enderwick, from the Auckland University of Technology International School of Business, says there are a number of reasons why there haven't been any prosecutions in this area before, including a lack of resources to investigate cases.

People enjoying an Indian summer of house-price growth in the regions should prepare for an inevitable slowdown, a property specialist has warned.

With economic storm clouds gathering, is it time to start thinking defensively? Alan Wood takes a look.

Claims OF blood stains on the walls, a floor so saturated with damp that it rotted through, a house gutted for a P-lab and landlords trying to fleece tenants of their bonds - two ordinary days at the tenancy tribunal in Auckland.