Significant tax relief is in line for low and middle income families in the May Budget.

Bayleys Realty Group managing director Jeff Davidson said the Hamilton office was in breach of its franchise agreement and he had not seen the now-banned offer document before it was issued to the public.

The global housing boom that has propped up the world economy in the face of falling share markets in the past few years is teetering on the edge of a crash, The Economist has concluded.

Otago house values continued to rise in February, with prices 48 per cent higher than a year earlier, the highest increase in the country.

Property prices in Canterbury and Westland leapt last month in defiance of the forecast slow-down in the real estate market.

Nelson-Marlborough property prices have dropped for the second successive month as a well-stocked market undermines prices.

The State Government moved swiftly yesterday to close a legal loophole that could have enabled apartment investors to back out of off-the-plan contracts and threatened more than $14 billion worth of new construction in Victoria.

Why is the Kiwi dollar so high against the US dollar? What investment strategy should I be taking to benefit from this position?

While some may have written off any role for the internet in selling home loans, one website is quietly beginning to gain traction.

What is believed to be Christchurch's most expensive residential property is on the market with a price-tag of $5 million.

The residential property investment market has fallen off a cliff, suffering its biggest one-month decline since the introduction of the GST nearly four years ago.

Hot competition continues in the medium term home loan rate market with BNZ moving the aggressive pricing strategy it has used for its two-year rate to the three-year one as well.

The Reserve Bank surprised the market for a third time running, this time by not only leaving interest rates unchanged but also in its dovish rhetoric which suggests only one further small rate increase, if any, will be necessary.

Wellington's central business district was the best office property performer in 2003, says the Property Council of New Zealand.

Q. Over a year ago I completed the development of a share-picking software application that uses a Warren Buffett-style approach to filtering out promising shares.

My philosophy was that if you could describe a repeatable technique for picking shares, then software could do this too and save you a lot of research. I know Warren does a lot more than just analytical analysis, but

Reality TV means the phrase "Big Brother is watching" has taken on a different meaning from what George Orwell ever imagined.