Labour leader David Shearer has tempered his plans for a large-scale affordable housing scheme.

Rising rents are likely to become as much of a political issue as unaffordable house prices, one commentator says.

The Green Party’s proposals to get low-income earners into housing have been panned by the New Zealand Property Investors Federation.

Warrants of fitness for rentals and restrictions on rent hikes are high on the Green Party list of priorities in its new housing policy, released today.

ANZ’s latest Property Focus report says the increasing strength of house sales volumes is spreading to provincial New Zealand.

When it comes to losing your job, having it happen at short notice and in the public eye are probably not conditions anyone desires.

Housing Minister Phil Heatley was told only this morning that he will be replaced.

Auckland’s council says signs of increasing activity in the city’s construction sector indicate more sustained economic growth ahead for the region.

More than half of New Zealanders support the introduction of a capital gains tax on residential investment properties, a new poll has shown.

New Zealand’s Government is expecting another house price boom but won’t be intervening with measures such as rent control or public housing schemes, Finance Minister Bill English says.

House prices will rise more quickly this year than they did during 2012, BNZ chief economist Tony Alexander says.

Buyers in Auckland cannot expect to use CVs as a guide to house prices, commentator Olly Newland says.

Mortgage approval rates are back at levels not seen for more than three-and-a-half years, Reserve Bank data reveals.

Lifestyle properties near the main centres are in solid demand, says the Real Estate Institute, and sales are at levels not seen since 2007.

The Salvation Army says Housing New Zealand is referring clients to it because of the rising cost of buying and renting homes in Auckland.

Hundreds of thousands of jobs rely on the turnover of housing stock in this country, says property commentator Olly Newland.