The housing market still has some way to go before the current boom is over, according to Kieran Trass at Hybrid Consulting.

Q. Your correspondent who bought his house for $19,000 in 1968, and it is now "only" worth $300,000, obviously bought the wrong house in the wrong suburb.

What is more unforgivable is that your patsy answer took his patsy calculations at face value, thus doing a gross disservice to your readers.

I was active in buying houses during the same era. My records show th

This year has begun as last year ended; the good times continue to roll.

Barbara Kendall asks: There seem to be lots of investments other than shares that I can buy on the sharemarket. I'd like to learn about them. What's an exchange traded fund?

Q. I own shares in a property investment company. The investment has returned good dividends and I was very happy with how the company was run.

Recently, the company has made a key decision that I have opposed. In particular, it has agreed to sell its largest property.

The property has been showing good rental returns and increasing in capital value. I believe the

More than $27 million worth of commercial and industrial property was sold at Bayleys' auctions around the North Island over the past two weeks.

Fonterra's move into central Auckland has created a property opportunity.

A property development company controlled by Matthew Ridge has gone under at the behest of its shareholders but the television personality claims he is owed the most money from the wind-up.

Disenchanted Trans Tasman Properties minority shareholders are angry at the offer from majority shareholder SEA Holdings, predicting the deal will be shown up to be unfair and unreasonable.

Mount Maunganui has become the country's fifth most expensive residential area after its house prices soared as high as 50 per cent in the past year.

The latest housing consents figures for February were at their highest level for this month in 30 years, belying expectations the housing market is cooling.

Asteron has this week launched a home service which has an incentive for advisers and brokers who are looking at refinancing home loans.

Owners of two large inner-city Auckland apartment blocks are spending $1.3 million to fix leaky building problems before winter.

The building industry continues to flourish, according to statistics, but industry insiders and economists steer clear of painting a picture of boom times.

Crown involvement in the Waitara leasehold land proposal is far from a done deal.

Tekapo development continues to surge ahead, with a $20 million lake house complex planned for land adjacent to Lake Tekapo School.