Auckland property prices hit a new high in September, the market unfazed by pre-election uncertainty, according to a major real estate agency.

Press Release: QV Valuations

Property values are defying the doomsayers.

Press Release: Kellands

Hamilton's housing market continues to run red-hot, with the highest price increase of all the major centres for the fourth month in a row.

Many Australian property owners face higher land tax bills - and every New South Wales property will have its value re-assessed - after an Ombudsman's report attacked a culture of dodgy valuations and cost cutting which has resulted in 650,000 properties being under-valued.

Q. Recently I purchased an apartment in the city. I have been living in it for a few months now but I have not received any notification about the rates or insurance or any contributions I need to make to the running of the apartment building.

Queenstown's alfresco dining scene may become a thing of the past.

Press Release: Harveys

A burst of activity from the region's property market has seen an increase in sales at a higher price.

Q: My partner and myself have been on the rocky road to finding our first home. We have had a few issues to contend with.

We all know someone who can't get from one payday to the next and still have money in the bank.

So much for Aucklanders' image as the big spenders, risk-takers and debtors.

A grasp of basic investment principles – and a disciplined approach to their implementation – can guide the sharemarket investor toward accumulating wealth. Cameron Watson, author of Risk, Return and Reality, talks to Kristina Greene.

Around 20 investors in Christchurch residential development taking legal action after purchase double-ups

TOKYO: Japanese land prices showed signs of emerging from a slump of more than a decade, with both commercial and residential land prices in Tokyo rising in the year to July 1 for the first time in 15 years, a survey showed yesterday.