Housing

"It was a little shoebox room. No windows, tiny, but it was under $200, so I was broke, keen, and I took it," one of the flatmates says. Audio

Interest rates will soon get to the level where it makes more sense, research firm says.

As one investor says buyers are waiting in the wings, our biggest bank says more rapid pick-up is possible.

Prices will be flat this year but increase 7 percent next year, bank economist says.

It started with a subdivison in a small alpine village. But when one landowner and his family tried to subdivide it further, a protracted legal battle began,

The rates bill on the property, which is surrounded by state homes, has grown to $317,846.55 and is now the city's longest outstanding debt.

Te Kohekohe will provide 60 homes in an area where accommodation is in desperately short supply.

Residents and business owners on Auckland's Waiheke Island are split on what to make of the island's housing crisis.

Home loan borrowers are facing a "massive" opportunity to save money - if they can afford to.

Despite a high homeless per capita population, many houses on the island sit unoccupied for much of the year. Audio

Property investors will switch from being the "hunted" to the "hunters" as conditions improve for them, Kiwibank says.

Rates for people with small deposits are now better than what was available to those with 20 percent earlier this year, a broker says.

With little affordable housing available, ministers were told changes could see more people living on streets and in cars, documents reveal. Audio

The housing market has warmed up to winter with an uncharacteristic increase in sales.