housing (Page 22)

first-home buyers

Bank of mum and dad offering no-strings loans

apartment construction

AUSTRALIA: Sydney faces apartment construction slowdown as developers hit the brakes

Takapuna beach

The right connections helped this Takapuna beach new-build

Auckland market

Soggy Auckland market takes heat out of million-dollar areas

McGrath

AUSTRALIA: Housing market ‘closer to equilibrium’: McGrath CEO

Housing development

Housing development planned for former Central New Brighton School site in eastern Christchurch

Nelson landlords

Nelson landlords sell up

mould

Odor, mould issues in $2.8m rental

House prices

House prices tipped to soar

investment properties

From poor to retired at 33

Chapman-Taylor

Original Chapman-Taylor designed cottage sails high above the capital

state houses

The best former state houses for sale right now

Gisborne house prices rose $2,645 a day in May, says REINZ

Queenstown property

Levelling off for Queenstown property

Queenstown property

Investors lock down Queenstown

Burton Silver

Bush hut where Burton Silver drew ‘Bogor’ is now a glamping retreat

The Block NZ

The Block NZ: What are 2018’s Claire and Agni doing now?

Ōtaki Beach

Growth towns in NZ: How Ōtaki is coming into its own

capital gains tax

Cancellation of CGT ‘a tragedy’

Barfoot & Thompson

Barfoot & Thompson fails in meth claim against tenant

Airbnb

Airbnb lines Kiwi pockets

Ponsonby

Dancing granny’s run-down Ponsonby villa sold to local family

property developer

Wellington property developer Lance James defends charges

Fletcher Living

Fletcher Living homes in central Christchurch struggle to find buyers

KiwiBuild

KiwiBuild pre-approved applicants list raises eligibility questions

Bindi Norwell

Guide to what landlords can ask is withdrawn by Privacy Commissioner

Central Otago

Controversial 900-lot development proposal battles opposition in Central Otago

heritage homes

Hobsonville officers’ houses ripe for Block-style makeover

Peter Wolfkamp

The Block NZ: At home with Peter Wolfkamp

earthquake excesses

Could homeowners face ‘earthquake excesses’ on house insurance?

Purchasing a home

Aussies don’t want to buy home with spouse

West Mount Cotton Road

AUSTRALIA: Innovative property video of the week (WATCH)

Auckland

Trading up has got a bit cheaper over the past year

apartments

Big dreams in small spaces

tiny house

Homeless after tiny house dispute

multi-million estate

Catholic father writes five of his six children out of multi-million estate over religious differences

council delays

Consents aren’t turning into houses, new data shows

Buy vs Rent

Here’s where you’re better to buy than rent

Barfoot & Thompson

Auckland Reverts To More Traditional Housing Sales Cycle

Tenancy Tribunal

Landlord ordered to pay $177k

Real estate agents

‘Real estate agents have to work harder’

Wellington’s fastest rising suburb revealed

real estate startup

INTERNATIONAL: This real estate startup is aiming to flip homes with help from Uber drivers

Wellington landlord

A Wellington landlord wanted a share of their tenant’s brothel business profit.

CoreLogic Pain & Gain Report

Pain & Gain Report New Zealand Quarter 1, 2019 – CORELOGIC

residential tenancy agreement

Woman ordered to pay aunt $21,600 in rent after assuming grandmother left her home in will

Property Prices

AUSTRALIA: Property Prices Fall Least in a Year as Slide Eases

Queenstown

$1m for average Queenstown home

House prices

House prices expected to fall

Pio Terei

Pio Terei wants you to build a tiny house

apartment owners

Wellington apartment owners seek details for quake-prone buildings fund

sub-letting

$50,000 bill for illegal sub-letting

Tony Soprano

INTERNATIONAL: Tony Soprano’s House Hits the Market

KiwiBuild

Has Govt realised KiwiBuild not the answer?

CGT

NZ First ‘killed off’ CGT

AUSTRALIA: Shane Warne and Sam Newman buy into Saint Moritz development

Queenstown

Traffic risk to Qtown expansion

Birkdale

This beautiful renovation is a lesson in what you can achieve on a budget

Australian property market

Australian property market: Home loan applications at highest level in six months

real estate fortune

INTERNATIONAL: A real estate fortune built on a foundation of forged deeds and tangled titles

mortgage repayments

Here’s how you can slash hundreds of thousands of dollars from your mortgage

Homes selling

Homes selling at a loss

Tiny House

WATCH: Our Urban Tiny House In New Zealand

Low interest rates

Low interest rates ‘will fuel economy’

giga-mansion

INTERNATIONAL: Is LA in a giga-mansion glut?

LVRs

LVRs to remain unchanged – Reserve Bank

Kiwi dream

Apartment appeal grows in Auckland

insulation

Property investors ‘won’t all hit insulation deadline’

Anna Coddington

At my place with musician Anna Coddington

Mortgage free

Mortgage free at 28

housing market

Is housing market going to crash?

residential portfolio

Big residential portfolio up for grabs

New Plymouth

New Plymouth development aims to bring neighbours together

Christchurch suburb

Insurance puzzle leaves immaculate Christchurch character home unsellable

Holiday house

Holiday house of Kiwi author Katherine Mansfield for sale, hoped to become writers retreat

sex work

$50 rent rise for heat pump ‘pushed me into sex work’

Auckland Council

House prices could rise after vote

Te Omanga Hospice

Plenty of interest from social housing providers for former Lower Hutt hospice

Hamilton

103 inquiries in two days: Hamilton has Trade Me’s most popular rental for April

One Agency

ONE AGENCY’S STRONG START TO 2019

emergency housing

$23m for emergency housing

trademe-property

Weekly rent cracks $500 for the first time

Tenancy Tribunal

Auckland landlord ordered to pay out after ‘splattering’ raw sewage through yard

mortgage-free

First house – mortgage-free

BEL AIR

INTERNATIONAL: Most Insane Pool in the World (Watch)

real estate scam

INTERNATIONAL: Florida family loses $77,000 in real estate scam

KiwiBuild

Flagship KiwiBuild policy in tatters as PM refuses to speak its name

Summerfield Villas

Gang man moves in

Landlord

Landlord ‘interfered’ with water

Cranmer Gardens

Luxury build restarts as Parker bows out

Micro Urban Village

AUSTRALIA: Micro house built on 38 sqm

Westpac

Westpac’s $6000-a-year warning

Clint Randell

Dancing with the Stars’ Clint Randell and wife Jaime have transformed their Auckland family home

property manager

Horror stories from a property manager

LVR

RBNZ plans to ease loan restrictions – at some stage

roof scammer

Instant jail term for roof scammer James Quinn

Real Estate Institute chief executive Bindi Norwell

Privacy rules to protect renters are ‘concerning’, Real Estate Institute says

Auckland property

WATCH: Auckland Property Continues To Slide – (Pokeno)

real estate agent

13 real-estate agents reveal the strangest and most extreme requests they’ve ever received from clients

Real estate agent

Real estate agent suspended

Welcome Home Loan

Welcome Home Loan rule ‘out of date’ for Wellington buyers

Joanne Harrison

Ministry of Transport fraudster Joanne Harrison’s home and Rolex seized

Dunedin

Woman who stole 94-year-old’s savings sells house to repay debt

Rodney

Live out your Wild West dreams on this Auckland ‘movie set’ home

Wellington houses

Open homes go ahead in Wellington houses seemingly condemned by new road

log home

Manawatū couple build million-dollar dream home of logs and stone

Real cost of a flat pack home

Australian property

Will Auckland’s House Prices Crash like Sydney’s?

Investors a strong presence in April (but not due to CGT scrapping)

REINZ reminds landlords they have just 40 days left to insulate rental properties or face a $4,000 fine

Bunnings house

‘We bought a Bunnings house’

Landlords

The things landlords can and can’t ask you

‘Awesome’ tiny houses built by trainee tradies sold to same person

CoreLogic

WATCH: CoreLogic Monthly Property and Economic Update – May, 2019

Wellington Property Market

Wellington property market runs hot as buyers look further afield

Insurance premiums

Insurance in New Zealand is changing

Climate change

Climate change flight inland

First-home buyer

First-home buyer – at 50

Australian property market

AUSTRALIA: Sydney is no longer the most expensive city to buy property in Australia

Wellington neighbours

Fence is gone but a sense of injustice remains in Wellington neighbours’ court saga

WHITE PAPER

WHITE PAPER – APRIL 2019

The White Report

WATCH: The White Report – April 2019

tiny house

There’s waiting list for a house from Bunnings, as tiny house living soars