Politicians claiming the accommodation supplement is lining the pockets of landlords seem to have forgotten one key point: There is a massive property shortage in New Zealand, and in Auckland in particular.

The anti-property investing brigade and will be salivating at news that the government may be heading down the track of making it harder to be a landlord.

Christchurch’s rental market is soaring ahead of the rest of the country, according to Trade Me Property’s analysis for the April to June quarter.

Invercargill’s real estate sector has been sent a shockwave by a house generating a rental yield of 54%.

Ring-fencing – it’s a term that will make most property investors shudder.

KiwiBank has been given the First-Home Buyer Award from financial research and ratings group CANSTAR for the second year in a row.

It’s not hard to see why investors are returning to the property market.

If investing in property is such a bad thing, you have to wonder why so many of our politicians are landlords.

Auckland house price rises continued to outpace the rest of the country in the year to April, but at a slower rate than last month, according to the latest Crockers Auckland sales price table.

Being completely ignored by this year’s Budget would be good news for property investors, says NZ Property Investors Federation president Andrew King.

The vast majority of Auckland suburbs continue to enjoy significant rental premiums over the rest of the country, according to the latest Crockers Auckland rental price table.

Housing markets in Auckland and Christchurch are "heating up" and across the country an increasing number of people expect house prices to rise, according to the latest ASB Housing Confidence Survey.

Estate agents are reporting an increasing number of investors' active in the property market, according to the latest BNZ-REINZ survey.

Nationwide property values continued on an upward trend in the three months to April, according to the latest QV index.

House prices retreated from March's record high in April and sales volumes also took a dip, though both remain above year-earlier levels.

Auckland sees sales slip from March but remain well above year-earlier levels, Government belt tightening continues to hamper the Wellington market and Hawkes Bay records the strongest sales rise and a new median price high.