Property investors are being asked to give their opinions on the housing market, including the proposed LVR restrictions.

Loan-to-value restrictions won’t really make any difference to people who really want to buy a house, property commentator Olly Newland says.

New Zealand must strike the right balance to enable first-home buyers to purchase property while maintaining a robust banking system, the prime minister said today.

Auckland’s hot property market and signs the Kiwi dollar may have come off the boil are still not enough to force the Reserve Bank governor’s hand this week, economists say.

Homeowners relying on their properties’ capital values when deciding what rebuild cost they need their insurance policy to cover may get a nasty shock, says property commentator Alistair Helm.

Loopholes that caught homeowners out on sum insured policies in the past will probably be problematic this time around, too, the Insurance and Savings Ombudsman scheme says.

New Zealand’s Property Council says Auckland’s unitary plan must be introduced in one hit – not in a series of stages.

Tenants wanting to own their own homes are pushing house prices up and rents down, Westpac says.

Auckland house prices are now increasing at a faster rate than they did before the previous property price peak, Quotable Value says.

There’s no sign of a rental shortage in the latest Trade Me property analysis.

Sales growth is not keeping up with the rise in property prices, the latest Real Estate Institute statistics show.

There was little change in Auckland's average house price last month, according to Barfoot and Thompson.

ANZ’s economist shave questioned the durability of the housing market’s price increases, considering how stretched values seem to be judging by affordability and debt metrics.

The number of homes for sale on Realestate.co.nz has fallen to a six-year low, the website's latest report says.

New Tenancy Tribunal application forms for landlords and tenants will be launched at the start of August.

House prices may be soaring but rents don’t seem to be going anywhere fast in the country’s biggest city.