Housing

Tauranga City Council has narrowly passed a controversial bylaw banning begging and rough sleeping within 5m of retail and hospitality premises. Audio

Sixty-eight Kiwibuild homes are to be built in Marfell, a neglected New Plymouth neighbourhood, more than a decade after a new housing project was first promised. But some locals remain sceptical… Video, Audio

New research reveals what makes our towns and cities good places to live and do business - but we can't always have both. Kathryn Ryan talks to Motu Economic and Public Policy Research 's Arthur… Audio

As the government considers new minimum standards for rental homes, a new online tool to assess if a house is warm, safe and dry has been launched. The Homefit intiative www.homefit.org.nz has been… Audio

When more homes are needed, what is the best way to create communities and towns from scratch? Auranga development south of Auckland is what is known as a "master-planned" community. It'll have 3000… Audio

Call it a crisis, call it a problem; one thing everyone agrees on in Central Otago and Queenstown Lakes is that housing affordability is causing young families to leave. Statistics show the average… Audio

Residents of the new Hobsonville Point housing development fear part of the 24 hectares of green space they were promised could instead become another development. The stoush is over a former… Audio

People buying homes in a new subdivision north of Auckland will pay extra on top of their rates to fund infrastructure for the development. NZIER Principal Economist and Head of Auckland Business… Audio

A Hutt Valley church community that has previously protested about the shortage of social housing in the city is putting its money where its mouth is and building five new homes for needy people. In… Audio

Bryce Langston is a New Zealand-based actor, with stints on Shortland Street and, more recently Spartacus, a musician, filmmaker and environmentalist who has spent the past five years traveling the… Video, Audio, Gallery

Property investors are welcoming the government's easing restrictions on selling KiwiBuild homes. Owners who sell in the first three years of taking ownership will still keep 70-percent of the… Audio

There are now nine suburbs in Wellington where the average house price is $1 million - six more suburbs than three years ago. Audio

A lack of qualified builders and young people wanting to enter the industry means not a lot will change with supplying much needed housing in New Zealand. John Gray of HOBANZ says it's impossible to… Audio

Ray White Real Estate has had to apologise over its Warkworth Investor Gate newsletter mocking rental tenants with the "funniest things tenants say about not paying rent". Naturally the Renters United… Audio

The government is looking at filling the gap between KiwiBuild and renting. It's "KiwiBuy". The upshot is the government buys houses in partnership with low income earners.Buying under a shared… Audio