Q. An extract from BNZ chief economist Tony Alexander's Weekly Overview:

Some North Shore landlords are reconsidering property investment after "nightmare" experiences with tenants.

The Auckland property market continues its strong run reaching a new high in October with the average house price rising to $420,000, according to the latest figures from Barfoot & Thompson.

Sales of coastal land and South Island high country property to foreigners will be the focus of a Government review of the Overseas Investment Act.

John Paine of Global Pacific predicts a turnaround in the residential property market next year. "Annual net migration continues to fall from its peak in May due to fewer non-resident arrivals and an increase in resident outflow," he says. "The New Zealand Reserve Bank - albeit, I believe, pessimistically - expects net migration to fall to 10,000-15,000 in about two years. This doesn’t mean people

A Dunedin scarfie's costly disaster with a frying pan is being displayed as a cautionary tale for everyone living in a flat.

The Green Party is drafting a Bill to prohibit overseas speculators, foreign corporations and non-residents from buying up the country's farmland, waterfront, baches and high country stations.

A property deal gone sour has left a Christchurch couple disillusioned with a company hosting property seminars in the city.

Senior economists believe the Finance Minister is bluffing with talk of reining in the New Zealand dollar.

The Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) decision to put up its benchmark wholesale interest rate to 5% is not expected to exert immediate pressure on New Zealand's central bank to follow suit.

Victims of the Heartland Homes collapse in Auckland are challenging claims by its chief that he was a victim of the building boom.

Nearly a million Australians say they will defy talk of a dangerous housing bubble and plunge into a residential property investment in the next year.

The $7 million apartment block planned for Collingwood St has one of its neighbours, the Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology, seriously worried.

When Grey Lynn vicar Hugh Kempster learned his diminutive church was to be dwarfed by five-storey apartments, he appealed for reason. When that failed, he started stirring.

Finance Minister Michael Cullen has asked the Reserve Bank and Treasury to report on ways to curb the rising dollar, which is hammering export returns.

A company hosting property seminars in Christchurch directs investors to a company linked to a Queensland businessman alleged to have tricked hundreds of people in a Gold Coast property scheme.