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Severe shortage of Tauranga rentals drives up prices

The average Tauranga household has just enough income to afford the mean weekly rent.

Batts, GIB board, ColourCote back in production as Fletcher factories re-open

Winstone Wallboards, Tasman Insulation and Pacific CoilCoaters staff about to return.

'Cracked the $1 million mark': Tauranga house values hit major milestone

The wider Bay of Plenty's property values climbed 5.5 per cent to $945,000.

Tighter mortgage rules could make it even tougher for first-home buyers

CoreLogic: Tauranga first-home buyers paying a median of $770,000 to secure a house.

'Bottleneck ': Rush on building consents before fee increase overwhelms council

The development contribution for a 3 or more bedroom home rose to $19,708 on August 1

Live from the 'auction lounge': Buyers shell out millions in lockdown at virtual auctions

Online auctions a good 'plan B' as the country stays in alert level 4 lockdown.

Housing crisis 'a breach of human rights'

Successive governments have failed NZers, says Human Rights Commissioner Paul Hunt.

'No longer $10 Tauranga': Bay's 34 million-dollar suburbs revealed

'It is just proving there is a lot of cash in the market', an agency director says.

Interactive: Who's paying the highest rent in NZ?

Red spread: tenants' plight in two major cities revealed - interactive Herald graphics

Top sale of the year? Mount Maunganui home sells for $7.5m under the hammer

It was one of three sales over $1.5m under the hammer in the last week

'Intense': Construction costs highest in two years

Report shows labour costs jump 1.3 per cent, the highest rate of cost inflation in 2 years

'Not possible': $100k in bank and still no first home

CoreLogic says first-home buyers represented only 17 per cent of the market in Q1 of 2021.

'Brave': House price drop may not be as sharp as Govt predicts

REINZ predicts a slowdown in the house market but doesn't anticipate a big fall.

Is the Bay's boiling property market starting to simmer? New data revealed

Tauranga's median house price is $937,500 and Rotorua's $630,000.

'Silver lining': More young people entering real estate post-lockdown

A total of 154 Bay people have applied for their real estate licence since lockdown

Interactive: 40 years of sky-high house prices - how your region compares

How did house prices in New Zealand become so expensive?