The latest house sales figures appear to confirm a modest slowdown is underway with both the national median house price and the number of homes sold falling in June and the number of days it takes to sell a house continuing to creep up.

Superbank launches its home loan product which will reward customers for loyalty by reducing the rate each year.

SYDNEY: The Australian government is eager for house prices to plateau, Treasurer Peter Costello said, days after central bank data showed home prices were starting to fall in the country's biggest cities.

Press Release: Superbank

Six-month performance figures released today by investment research company FundSource show the good times rolling on for investors in New Zealand equity funds.

A young bank promoted in Kiwi supermarkets challenges its larger rivals by discounting interest rates. Rob Stock reports.

Studies of real estate cycles show property prices go up in the first four stages of the cycle, go flat in step #5, then go down for four stages, says investment consultant Charles Drace, author of “How to Survive the New Zealand Residential Property Crash”.

Rising inflation is all but certain to lead to another hike in interest rates by the end of the month.

I have been asked to be educator-mentor to a newly formed share club. This week's article is the start of a series aimed at new investors wanting to answer the simple, but ultimately very complex, question: "How do you make money out of the sharemarket?".

As the village at Franz Josef Glacier runs out of room, a property developer has come up with a novel solution – build another town.

Two banks whose slack cheque handling practices helped dishonest tax agents commit multimillion-dollar fraud are at odds over reimbursing victims.

Q. I found an article in the Herald this week by Ellen Read disturbing.

She says New Zealand stock is getting overvalued and "the capital NZSX-all index is at 908.5 - its highest since October 1997 and just below the all-time high of 921 just before the 1987 crash".

I only have New Zealand dividend-yield stock in case the market crashes, as I have been told I will

Warren Buffett and George Soros are the world's most successful investors but with totally different investment methods what could they possibly have in common that average punters might learn from?

Hundreds of Waikato and Bay of Plenty investors who lost more than $20 million in a prime bank instrument scheme run by Donald Moris Rea could receive differing payouts depending on when they joined the scheme.

It's hard to over-emphasise the importance of keeping your credit record clean. Make one wrong move and your life could be marred.

The Reserve Bank will almost certainly lift interest rates again at the end of the month, but further rises are less certain, economists say, as inflation rises toward 3 per cent.