The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment and the New Zealand Property Investors Federation are running seminars about practical property management for novice investors.

Landlords planning to head overseas over the Christmas break are being warned to stay on the right side of the law.

A second property developer has been handed a home detention sentence for his role in an elaborate fraud.

Harcourts real estate agents reported written sales of more than $1 billion nationwide in November.

Real estate agents are reporting a slight cooling in the residential market, according to the latest BNZ/REINZ survey.

The Government will try to simplify the rules relating to financial arrangements that are agreements for the sale and purchase of property or services, Revenue Minister Peter Dunne says.

Australian investors are as strongly present in the Auckland market as their Chinese counterparts, says Auckland Property Investors Association president David Whitburn.

The number of houses sold in Hamilton this year was a quarter more than sold in 2011, but prices aren’t yet picking up pace, a real estate agency says.

Government proposals to strengthen or demolish within 15 years buildings that don’t meet earthquake standards are unaffordable and unnecessary, according to one commentator.

November recorded the strongest monthly residential property sales volume in five years, Real Estate statistics show.

I like my toolbox. It has plenty of useful tools such as screwdrivers, spanners and hammers, to name just a few. We learned this week from the Monetary Policy Statement that the Reserve Bank has a few new tools in its box to fix the economy when things get heated.

National residential property values are up 1.9% over the past three months, 5.7% up on the same time last year, and 1.5% higher than the last market peak, according to QV.

Westpac says fixing interest rates is likely to prove better value than floating over the next couple of years.

Sale prices are inching closer to asking prices, particularly in Auckland, according to property commentator Alistair Helm.

New Zealand should be careful not to relax its lending criteria too far, says the chief executive of RE/Max International.

High-rise apartment buildings will have to be demolished within 15 years if they can’t be strengthened to meet earthquake standards, Government proposals say.