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Some Matakana residents are threatening to take the law into their own hands and burn down houses to stop any new housing development there. Audio

Property investors are likely to be targeted when the Reserve Bank speaks later today about measures to cool the rampant housing market.

House values are soaring across the country with a 16 percent rise in Auckland in the year to June and a 29 percent increase in Hamilton.

Most councils are welcoming the government's new $1bn fund housing fund, although one Christchurch Councillor says it is unlikely to make housing more affordable. Audio

Mayors are welcoming the government's plan to spend $1 billion on increasing housing supply in areas of high demand.

A working group favours moving Ports of Auckland to either the Firth of Thames or Manukau Harbour, but the Transport Minister says neither's likely. Audio

An Otago town has launched a plan to lure families by offering new homes costing half the price of the government's affordable housing.

New statistics reveal Māori home ownership has plummeted in the past 27 years, with the rate in some parts of the North Island dropping by as much as 40 percent.

The growth in property prices is continuing to pick up pace, with Auckland's average house price now $955,793.

Schools will not know which students are attracting funding targeted to children of beneficiaries, and they don't need to, Education Minister Hekia Parata says.

The government has put on hold the sale of hundreds of Housing New Zealand homes in Invercargill after the only group to submit a proposal pulled out.

An overheated wheat bag is being blamed for setting a house on fire in Tauranga.

A Tauranga school principal is in no doubt there is a housing crisis in her area, and her community is taking matters into its own hands.

Bay of Plenty has topped the ASB's regional economic scoreboard for the fourth quarter in a row - a success that's no accident, say Tauranga's business leaders.

A Christchurch mother living in her car says Work and Income still can't help her, after the Social Housing Minister told her to go to the agency.

House prices in provincial North Island towns are booming as first-home buyers, retirees and speculators are pushed out of the Auckland market. Audio

A project it is hoped will transform one of the country's most deprived regions is moving closer to becoming a reality. Audio

New research shows the cost of housing in New Zealand rises and falls in a similar way to housing in Australia.

A community housing group is worried an overseas consortium has made the shortlist of providers bidding to take on 1500 state houses.

British and multinational companies are among those shortlisted to take over state housing stock in Tauranga and Invercargill.