Housing

Some threats to a property's value can be controlled, and anothers not.

Farm Cove residents have sought legal advice, maintaining the development should no longer be allowed under recently changed planning rules. Audio

Aucklanders may finally be getting some relief on their insurance premiums - but the same cannot be said for Wellington and Christchurch.

A woman who helped her son and his wife buy a house has been offered compensation for the way the bank handled the dispute when the relationship went sour.

The transformation of Canterbury's Rangiora is clear, with the District Plan opening up land for up to 17,000 new sections over the next 30 years.

New data from Cotality shows that 12 percent of people selling residential properties in the last quarter of last year did so for less than the amount they paid for them.

Standalone houses in the Auckland suburb, usually the country's most expensive area, have a median value of $3.03 million.

Auckland Council's planning has been thrown for a loop after what looks like yet another government-imposed rule change over housing.

The tenant claimed he had been deliberately located next to the site of his childhood abuse.

Landlords can now charge up to two weeks rent as a pet bond, which came into force late last year. Audio

The review needs to tackle the problem that insurance is becoming more unaffordable and potentially inaccessible, Consumer NZ says.

As the market stabilises, property flippers are back at a rate not seen since before the global financial crisis.

There is likely to be another six months of little house price movement.

Social services say they are seeing alarming numbers of rough sleepers in Wellington as potential 'move on' laws looms. Audio

Several South Island towns were already on a list of areas AA won't issue new policies for. Audio