Economists are unusually unanimous: they expect the Reserve Bank to raise its official cash rate (OCR) from 6% to 6.25%, the fifth rate hike this year, when it releases its latest monetary policy statement.

Interest rates are heading up tomorrow and probably again in October because the economy is booming and commodity export prices are high, economists say.

A lack of staff at the Manukau City Council has resulted in hundreds of "shoddy" building developments in Howick and Pakuranga causing overcrowding, flooding and serious subsidence.

The New Zealand Mortgage Brokers’ Association is working on getting the government to accept a regulatory framework based on self-regulation with "empowering legislation" backing it up, retiring association chairman Brian Berry says.

The collapse of Access Brokerage has sparked a vicious dispute over stockmarket regulation between the firm's owner and the New Zealand Stock Exchange (NZX).

Tower appears to be taking the threat of the NZX-promoted MOZY passive fund seriously, as it has sent an email to brokers outlining the key differences between the fund and one of its own.

Press Release: Barfoot and Thompson

The message is loud and clear for people who have bought rental properties in the last few years. Batten down the hatches! Ride out the storm!

Q: I must take issue with a recent column where you add together all the mortgage payments over 25 years and hence imply that each payment has the same value.

It's like adding lemons and oranges. A dollar today has a different value from one in 25 years.

Let's say you have a mortgage of just under $130,000, with an interest and principal payment that is $1000 a mon

Well-structured contributory mortgages are taking off, writes Garry Sheeran.

Q. What is the difference between the interests in a property syndicate which are offered under the Securities Act Exemption for Proportionate Ownership Schemes and apartments in a unit title development being sold to investors which are marketed by the developer?

In particular, why do promoters of these syndicates have to comply with the requirements of the Securities Act when

Q. I heard about a person who bought a block of land only to discover, when he applied for resource consent, that where he wanted to put his new house was a former pa site. I am about to buy a large block of rural land. How do I know whether local Maori have any interests in the land?

A. Whether land is significant to Maori is just one of the various features of any part

Location Group is planning to convert a former 2.5ha truck wrecking site at 645 Great South Rd into a business park.

People joke about "signing their life away" when they take out a mortgage.

A popular way of advertising real estate may breach the Fair Trading Act, the Commerce Commission has warned.

New Zealand interest rates are the highest in the Western world, and they are likely to go even higher next week.