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Interior of the Year awards

Uber cool kitchen takes out top award spot

historic Dunedin building

Scarfies’ home, a former hospital for infectious diseases, is for sale

Australian property

Australian property sales at lowest point in two decades

property investment

Tips for property investment

Australian house prices

AUSTRALIA: The areas around Australia where house prices have dipped most

Blockhouse Bay

Buying your childhood home is an emotional stake in the past

Capital Gains Tax

CGT is dead. But there are other ways to thwart a raging property market

Indian tenants

‘No, because you’re Indian’

New Zealand house sales

New Zealand house sales slump 11 per cent

REINZ stats: Will the OCR impact Auckland’s median price ‘Groundhog Day’?

Eastbourne

Katherine Mansfield’s family holiday cottage for sale ‘as is, where is’

KiwiBuild

Winston Peters says target of 100,000 KiwiBuild homes over 10 years is ‘easily achievable’

Open Home

Finally on the ladder

housing crisis

Action sought on housing crisis

eco-houses

‘Sustainable’ homes gather pace gallery

Neighbours

Neighbours at war

OCR

Exactly how much you could save on your mortgage now the OCR has been cut

Modernist house

Architect’s own Modernist house celebrated in NZIA Western awards

Amy Adams

Who loves property the most?

Palmerston North

Friends’ fierce battle over house finally comes to an end

Topp Twin

Topp Twin downsizing: Dame Lynda and Donna list Topp Lodge

Jacinda Ardern

The number of properties owned by MPs revealed

Bindi Norwell

Recent property figures reveal tale of two cities in growth and decline in property values – REINZ

properazzi

PROPERAZZI: THE AUCKLAND QUARTERLY PROPERTY REVIEW – Q1 2019

Unsworth Heights

An Auckland couple are offering their Unsworth Heights home for sale for bitcoin

Foreign house buyer approvals

Foreign house buyer approvals drop sharply under new rules

Shipping container

Shipping container-turned-one bedroom cabin up for auction

Housing Award

NZIA celebrates Wellington’s best buildings, but there are few new houses

first-home buyers

Time’s right for first-home buyers

Martin Devlin

Martin Devlin in Tenancy Tribunal for not paying bills

Wellington castle

This spooky Wellington castle is in need of a knight in shining armour

Wanaka

How a Wanaka family built an architecturally designed home for $500,000

Tenancy Tribunal

$9K for hole ‘big enough for cat’

new home consents

Surge in Auckland building activity with new home consents up 24 per cent

Real estate agent

Disgraced real estate agent Geoffrey Mairs seeks to have cancelled licence reinstated

Japan

INTERNATIONAL: Why are so many houses sitting empty in Japan?

Australian housing

AUSTRALIA: The next domino for Australian housing (watch)

Mortgage broker

Mortgage broker sues for $211,000 in fight over Sandringham house

first-home buyers

First-home buyers taste bitter reality

Invercargill property

Landlord says 16 cats destroyed his Invercargill property

apartment living

Fears rising insurance and body corp costs could make apartment living unsustainable

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg spent almost $60 million on 2 waterfront estates in Tahoe last winter. Here’s a look at the 10 properties he owns across the US, from a modest Palo Alto home to a Hawaiian plantation

insurance risk

Counting cost of insurance risk

First home buyers

First home buyers invasion

Queenstown project

Sir Bob in big Queenstown project

Ed O'Neill

CELEBRITY: Actor Ed O’Neill Buys Beautiful Home on Hawaii’s Big Island

Foreign buyer ban

Foreign buyer ban hasn’t had the desired effect, expert says

Nic Foote and Chris McKenzie

New chat platform for permanent house swaps is like ‘Tinder for homeowners’

NZ Property

NZ property values continue to show modest growth

Barfoot & Thompson

Uncertainty Affects Auckland Property Sales Numbers But Not Prices – Barfoot & Thompson

Auckland house prices

Average Auckland house price drops $100,000 over three years

Hong Kong

INTERNATIONAL: This seemingly unremarkable home has a jaw-dropping price tag of $97 million.

NZIA Auckland Architecture Awards

Best houses – NZIA Auckland

Shelly Bay

Iwi land sold for $2m

Dunedin flat

Notorious flat pulled from tender

building industry

Red tape and high costs are strangling the building industry, new survey reveals

Henry Graham

Renters given refunds after big property manager caught charging ‘key money’ by plucky Wellington tenant

Auckland Property Continues To Slide

WATCH: Auckland Property Continues To Slide

housing market

ANZ profit dragged down by softer housing market

realestate.co.nz

The Auckland region’s average asking price drops below $900,000

Clifton Hill

Green home warms Christchurch family’s heart

Auckland prices

Buyers want smaller, cheaper homes

cat bond

Renter’s $500 cat bond

Holiday park

Holiday park guests spend $1.2 billion – chasing the camping dollar

InsideOut Building

$50,000 bill to fix problems left by builder

William Sanders Retirement Village

Ryman Healthcare pays compensation for building delay to soon-to-be residents of Devonport retirement village

researching property

AUSTRALIA: Aussies more property geeks than fitness freaks – HSBC study

IAG

Wellington mayor calls for insurance forum after IAG’s price hike announcement

Western Springs

‘As is, where is’ abandoned villa needs ‘Block-style’ do-up

Shelly Bay

Sir Peter Jackson takes to Facebook again over Shelly Bay

coastlines

Costs rise for crumbling coastlines as council makes it clear: homeowners are on their own

corelogic

Lending activity drops back a little in March

housing market

Interest rates are crumbling around the world, as rate cuts are expected.

Property Market

CoreLogic Q1 2019 Property Market & Economic Report

New Plymouth subdivision

Proposed New Plymouth subdivision will compound existing traffic problems, say residents

trademe-property

National weekly rent edges closer to $500

Landlord

Landlord must pay renter compo for surprise backyard construction of a house

Australian property market

Australian house prices plunge by $40,000 from 2017 peak, research shows

Co-housing project

Co-housing project secures land video

Hong Kong

INTERNATIONAL: A Tycoon Just Spent $180 Million on Hong Kong Luxury Property

flipping houses

Days of flipping houses for a quick buck may be over in Auckland

Wellington Property Market

WATCH: Wellington Property Market Update for March 2019

Jessica Alba

CELEBRITY: Jessica Alba Quickly Sells Her Beverly Hills Home for $6.2M

Airbnb

Airbnb likely cause of high rents in Queenstown, research suggests

Waiuku

Houses could replace motor camp

Century 21

Auckland businesswoman buys into Century 21 New Zealand with aspirations to expand

Queenstown holiday park

Queenstown holiday park tenants face homelessness to make way for development

capital gains tax

Cutting capital gains master stroke

House prices

House prices plummet

house prices

Central Auckland house prices plummet, Real Estate Institute data shows

Revealed: Takapuna is Auckland’s fastest-growing suburb

landlords

Landlord’s flat tours

Shelly Bay

Baggins, dragons and the Fellowship of the Bay

KiwiBuy

Govt urged to support scheme helping low-income families buy homes

lottery winner

INTERNATIONAL: $270m lottery winner’s house

REAL ESTATE investing

INTERNATIONAL: HE WANTS YOU TO INVEST IN REAL ESTATE FOR AS LITTLE AS $1

Christchurch real estate boss

Real estate boss loses appeal

Shelly Bay

Iwi owners remind Sir Peter Jackson Shelly Bay development is ‘our decision’

insurance company

Owner can sue broker and insurer after house was under-insured, court says

urban sprawl

Too much ‘versatile land’ lost to urban sprawl in New Zealand

Chow brothers

Chow brothers owe ex-worker $66k

property decline

Australia faces the biggest and longest property decline in 40 years

Stonewood liquidators

Court orders Stonewood liquidators to reveal real funder

one-bedroom apartment

Charging $360 per week in rent for an ‘apartment’ the width of a bus is greedy

building development

Māori group protest building development on occupied land in Auckland

Arrowtown

Dozens of affordable homes approved for Arrowtown

Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston

CELEBRITY: Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston renovation project in Beverly Hills for sale at $78 million

marketing video

AUSTRALIA: ‘We Missed the Mark.’ Realtors Apologize After Bizarre Property Ad Goes Viral (WATCH)

Lower Hutt property

Lower Hutt property for sale covered in native bush after three decades

David Sharma

Disgraced real estate agent David Sharma leaves victims with little hope

Bel Air Mansion

INTERNATIONAL: Watch – Inside an $88M Bel Air Mansion with a Hidden Car Elevator

Retirement villages

Retirement villages – the catch

housing bust

AUSTRALIA: Why the housing bust is likely to continue

Arlington Tower housing

Wellington City Council moves closer to flicking off Arlington site to Housing NZ

Barfoot & Thompson

Barfoot & Thompson defends marketing tactics after adding 15,000 tenants to email list without their knowledge

house buying

How do I buy a house like a Kiwi?

Terry Serepisos

Serepisos house for sale

Point Chevalier

‘Mum’s’ Point Chevalier house in family for 66 years sold quickly

Kiwi banks

Kiwi banks among world’s most profitable

WATCH: CoreLogic Monthly Property and Economic Update – April

Powell house

Concrete castle’s champion

Real Estate Marketing

WATCH: Real estate agent forced to delete raunchy ad (Australia)

CGT

‘Renting longer’ without CGT