Housing

While some parts of the country are setting house price records, others still have prices well below their previous peaks.

Buyers have time to act carefully, the head of Realestate.co.nz says.

Huge price rises have changed the game for young buyers, an economist says. Audio

When it comes to finding the right home loan rate, it's time for borrowers to pick a strategy, one economist says.

Approved building firms, plumbers, and drainlayers will now be able to sign off their own work, Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk has announced.

The Ministry of Social Development said in a report this was because it could not cope with workloads, which included work relating to changes to the Jobseeker benefit. Audio

In a recently released decision on the matter, the tribunal found it did not have jurisdiction to make a ruling on the application.

The mayoral candidate says continuing to build on flood-prone land will be disastrous.

RNZ's money correspondent answers your questions.

A Whangārei hapū is celebrating the end of a controversial development on land they consider tapu, or sacred after the developer dropped their appeal.

Analysis: Research has found the accommodation supplement, which costs almost $2 billion a year, might not be an effective tool in addressing the housing affordability crisis.

A landlord ordered to fix a property described as "not fit for human occupation", instead removed windows and replaced them with cardboard and cling wrap - and then left the country.

In the first quarter house sellers reduced asking prices by a combined $63 million, a property website says.

The amount of rental listings in March reached levels not seen since 2014. Audio

The properties up for sale in Wellington and North Wairarapa each have unique features and intriguing backstories.

The property was owned for more than 20 years by one of the country's most influential contemporary painters, Lyttelton artist Bill Hammond, who died in 2021.

Of the 1500 new places, 1000 were last week allocated to five housing providers through 'strategic partnerships' to make contracting the homes more efficient.