The public is likely to get an opportunity to have a say on whether a 15-storey holiday apartment complex proposed for a site overlooking Te Tii Bay at Paihia goes ahead.

An Auckland environmental group is wading into the debate over a proposed residential development in a privately-owned Owairaka wetland.

The Nelson-Marlborough region has ranked the highest improvement in home affordability for the second consecutive quarter, according to the latest AMP Home Affordability Report for the June 2005 quarter.

Timaru residents enjoy the district's low unemployment, cost of living and the upgrade of Caroline Bay, but despisepollution, vandalism, lack of tertiary education in the region and Stafford Street's empty shops.

There is little evidence that the Reserve Bank has broken the back of the housing market boom, with households still borrowing.

Oakura's coastal theme will be enhanced by a $500,000 upgrade of the town's main street.

Appleby residents are vowing to fight plans to shift a truck depot on to a busy intersection near Richmond, saying it will put schoolchildren at risk and flouts planning rules.

The Weekly Home Loan report looks at where mortgage rates are heading.With little few changes in home loan rates recently much of the focus at the moment is on where rates are heading.

Sovereign, like other lenders, has reviewed its home loan business and is making a number of changes, including a reduction in its commission levels.

Q. I wonder if you are aware that Inland Revenue will accept property valuations showing a chattels value as high as one-third of the value of an investment property purchase, with the consequent depreciation of these "chattels" at a rate of 18 per cent.

There is no shortage of information on investing in the sharemarket for mum and dad contemplating equities as a home for their savings. Trouble is that much of it, for one reason or another, is dead wrong.

Housing affordability has fallen for a fifth quarter in a row after both interest rates and house prices rose again.

People are sleeping in cars, under trees and in parks because they cannot afford housing in the western Bay of Plenty, according to welfare agencies.

The multibillionaire Sultan of Brunei has sold all 11 of his houses in Herne Bay, Auckland, for almost $35 million.

Investment research house FundSource had some good news to spread around today -- and some warnings, as well.

Real Estate Institute says most property owners feel interest rates have gone high enough