Australia's $6 billion property giant Centro Properties Group has its consultants scouting for more shopping centres in New Zealand, after spending $36 million over the past few months.

Homeowners feeling rich on the back of rising house prices are being tempted to top-up their mortgages. David King looks at what you should consider before you take the plunge.

A stellar stockmarket performance has lured some dormant investors back to the markets, pushing up the number of share trades by over 20 per cent last month.

Q. I own commercial office space that I lease. I recently became aware that the tenant has sublet the premises to a third party and that some of the office space is now being used as bedrooms. After raising this as an issue with the tenant, the tenant claimed that a residential tenancy now existed and that the Residential Tenancies Act 1986 applies to the lease. What are my options?

But will they ever sell? asks Jon Chomley quietly as he stares at the dozens of tiny apartments being put up outside his office window.

The Government should beef up regulation of "unscrupulous property developers", the Consumers’ Institute has said.

The house price boom continues to slow, according to the latest residential property value survey.

The Real Estate Institute of New Zealand and the Queenstown Lakes District Council could reach a compromise over the council's short-term rental rules, institute Wakatipu branch president Richard Newman said.

Taranaki's buoyant real estate market shows no sign of abating, with another set of statistics putting New Plymouth among New Zealand's top cities in property value growth.

New Zealand's most valuable state house is worth more than $1 million and its tenants pay just $75 a week.

A former refugee from Vietnam wants to tap into a growing trend for Australians to buy New Zealand housing.

Invercargill's future as a stable, healthy community is still on the up, blowing apart the theory of one Australasian population expert.

New building legislation is described as ludicrous by a Pakuranga councillor.

Matauri Bay tribal land is for sale, a heartbreaking blow to Ngati Kura shareholders, who have been fighting to protect their land block from a mortgagee sale for the past three years.

A corporate deal enabling a $3.5 billion city to be built at Albany has been delayed.

One of the men at the centre of the country's biggest property fraud busts has been jailed for breaching bail conditions.