Housing

The number of sales across the country has dropped by a fifth, but prices have more than held up - except in Auckland.

The Whakatane District Council needs $14.2m to buy properties at risk from deadly debris flows at Matata, but locals say that is not enough.

A survey that found landlords would raise rents if a Labour-led government made it harder for them to make a profit is little more than scaremongering, says the Labour party.

Labour will renegotiate a free trade agreement with South Korea to stop foreign buyers purchasing existing homes, Labour's leader says.

A community housing group says families in Napier are being kicked out of their rentals because they are taking in homeless people, but Housing NZ denies the accusation.

The family, including two who are blind, had been told to leave their Mangere state house after their grandmother died.

A bigger HomeStart grant won't help many first time buyers in Auckland because there aren't enough affordable homes in the city, a mortgage broker says.

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Leaking and mouldy houses don't just make asthma worse, they could be a cause, new research has found.

A man living with his family in one room of a boarding house says the government is now seeking to put them back on the social housing register.