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Housing market: The city where average capital values have plummeted since 2021

Interest rates, inflation, and rising construction costs have been blamed.

Fuller house: What happens when mum - and the kids - move back home?

The benefits and pitfalls of returning to the nest, and how to make it work.

Boomtime: The city bucking NZ's building consent 'slowdown'

There's so much going on that there's concern whether the construction industry can cope.

10-year city deals: The spot PM says will 'likely' be one of the first

Govt wants 30-year infrastructure project pipeline – 'not just ideas but proper projects'.

'I feel guilty': Hospital bed taken by diabetic amputee with nowhere to live

She could have been discharged more than a month ago - has been in hospital for 17 weeks.

First-home buyers: Bank cashbacks, lack of investors creates gap in market

Banks are offering up to $5000 in cashback incentives to first-home buyers.

Home-building construction crunch: Who has failed lately and why

A 12-point list of the many builder failures lately.

'Don’t know how we can cope': Building consents plunge in 'most unaffordable city'

'We are nowhere near where we should be.'

'Dark numbers': Fear housing crisis 'normalised'; region with most need revealed

The charity delivers 92,000 food parcels in a year: 'That’s not a flex'.

Deemed too risky: ‘Crucial’ housing plans delayed 10 years

The housing development is expected to offer homes for 15,500 people.

'No idea how to look after a house': Bad tenants 'ruining' it for others

'A truth that nobody is willing to talk about or don’t have the guts to deal with.'

'Anti-cogovernance diatribe' and Cameron Rd legal threats: What made news in July

Bay of Plenty Times is looking back at the stories of 2023.

Tauranga needs 5000 more homes, but 'critical' development still years away

Tolley 'frustrated' as long timelines continue for project that could house 15,550.

Flood-damaged pensioner flats to be demolished

Seven homes to be demolished after floods ripped through seaside town of Waihī Beach.

'Amazing tenancy demand': Build costs and interest rates hit $200m sold-out Tauranga development

'If we see a drop in interest rates next year then I think it will start to stimulate.'

Public to get say on controversial 130-home Pongakawa development

The Western Bay of Plenty development is one step closer, despite opposition.