New Zealand was the fifth-best performing housing market of 45 surveyed as part of a new international comparison.

Fewer houses sold in May this year in every part of the country when compared with the same time the year before, the latest Real Estate Institute statistics show.

Tauranga's housing market has several faces and an investor has to be careful where he or she buys, writes Graham Skellern.

If the housing market is cooling no one has told the country’s vendors.

The Reserve Bank today published its summary of submissions relating to proposed changes to bank capital adequacy requirements for housing loans. It includes proposed changes that have potential to hit property investors with increased interest costs.

Increasing immigration may have less of an effect on the economy and house prices over the next few years than it has had in previous economic cycles, the Reserve Bank says.

Auckland and Christchurch need to be seen as their own, separate property markets and national data should be treated with caution, the Department of Building and Housing’s latest quarterly update says.

New Zealand's Property Investors' Federation has a new president.

Bodies corporate will not be able to register for GST, Revenue Minister Todd McClay has revealed.

A Canterbury development is to offer sections for sale via online auction.

Quotable Value statistics show the rate of increase in property values slowed again in May, to 8.2% over the past year.

Auckland’s property market slowed in May, the city's biggest real estate agency says.

The Reserve Bank should not consider restricting mortgage borrowing in line with household income, the New Zealand Initiative says.

House building is running at its fastest pace in more than a decade, new Statistics New Zealand figures show.

First-time landlords who rent out temporary accommodation in Christchurch and Auckland are being reminded they have to pay tax on their rental income.

A drop in house prices is just around the corner, ANZ’s economists say.