Continued strength in building consents figures has analysts rethinking views that the housing market has peaked.

A house sale in Wanaka was in the news recently. The owners bought it in 1968 for $7,500 and sold it for $820,000. That's a pretty nice capital gain. But:

The stock exchange listing of Urbus Properties was a low-key event.

Of all the investment rules, diversification has to be one of the most important.

The government’s plan to assist first-home buyers into their own homes has proved to be far more benign in terms of its economic and housing market impact than many had feared, although it still has its critics...

The Real Estate Institute has joined the Reserve Bank in warning residential property investors not to have unrealistic expectations about continued double-digit increases in house prices.

A Christchurch landlord who broke the law and left a couple and their three school-age children homeless has won praise from Christchurch MP Marc Alexander.

Stephen and Julie Henderson-McGregor were called to their Linwood home of just four days to find all their belongings dumped on the street, the locks on the house changed, and their life in tatters.

The Tenants Pro

...Kiwi has $925 million of assets, is one of the top-ranked performers on the NZX and is listed in the top 10 best yielding stocks by Auckland investment analyst David McEwen in his latest report, picking Kiwi to pay a gross annual dividend of 8.7c a unit... With a portfolio of four shopping centres - five when the $300 million Sylvia Park at Mt Wellington in Auckland is built - and the largest portfolio of offices and industrial real estate in New Zealand. Read on for a history of itself, its closest competitors and its direction for the future.

Reserve Bank governor Alan Bollard chose the conservative route in cutting the official cash rate (OCR) from 5.25% to 5% today, ignoring pleas for a larger cut...

Both economists and the wholesale interest rates market are convinced the Reserve Bank will cut its Official Cash Rate (OCR) again at its next review on Thursday.

The net inflow of immigrants fell last month, a sign that one of the main propellants of economic growth may be weakening.

As the population of a city grows, it’s the city council’s role to protect the density of development, maintaining an ideal mix between the built environment and open spaces.

All those huge numbers and complicated ratios that are bandied about to show that New Zealanders save too little, and put too much into their houses, may not mean much to you. After all, they are big economy-wide issues.

New Zealand house sales weakened in June but the median price held steady at $210,000, the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (Reinz) said today.

Investors' confidence in rental returns from residential property is up and looks like it will keep climbing in the coming year, a just released survey shows.

Are we in the midst of a global, Australian or local property bubble and, if so, what will happen to property prices when the bubble bursts?