Barfoot & Thompson reports a slight fall in the Auckland real estate property market for November, when the average sale price dropped to $414,742 from October’s record high of $422,001, which was helped by a single $7 million sale.

Prices of homes in the beach resort of Matarangi have increased by 38.6% since 1998, according to Bayleys. The figures for the six months to June 2003 put the median price at $241,500.

After the successful development and sale of its 35ha Airpark Business Centre adjoining Auckland Airport, Trans Tasman Properties is forging ahead with its 52ha Airpark 2.

Q. It has been announced that a new motorway is proposed and my property will be in the middle lane. It has destroyed its value and in fact, it is probably unsaleable. What can I do about it - or am I a dead possum?

The Bank of New Zealand (BNZ) today warned businesses and investors to carefully watch gathering economic storm clouds in the year ahead.

"What is it about property that brings out the worst in people?"

The Real Estate Institute's latest mortgage rate survey has found indications of a major increase in interest rates in coming months.

When a man who earns his living from arranging loans for people launches a service that helps people avoid debt, isn’t there something odd going on?

The three little pigs would be at the mercy of the big bad wolf if they were setting up house in Auckland.

Uncertainty over the future of Waitara leasehold land is causing heartache and anger for some lessees, who say they are trapped in houses they cannot sell.

Money Managers' property arm is being hauled before the Takeovers Panel over a deal to get control of a $25.5 million bundle of properties where Big Fresh is an anchor tenant.

Governments will come under increasing pressure to take a more flexible approach to the retirement age as the population ages, according to visiting Treasury research fellow Richard Disney.

A small piece of Northland coastline complete with a one-bedroom bach has sold for almost a million dollars.

High-rise living in North Shore looks set to be confined to Takapuna.

Manukau's housing market is booming as prices soar and increasing numbers of new homes are built.

Current "haywire" growth in the middle sector of New Zealand's housing market is not sustainable, a Canterbury business leader warned in Blenheim yesterday.