Kāinga Ora paid whopping $70m for land based on wobbly valuations
Agency under fire for above-market price.
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Agents say the property market has "dramatically" shifted in the buyers' favour.
How a man's lonely death led to housing for the elderly homeless
Elderly man found four days after he died.
Simon Bridges' $3.9m Tauranga home flops at auction
Politician's family home still on the market - but at a fixed price.
'Big changes' forecast for peninsula: Council seeks residents' views
Tauranga City Council is seeking community feedback as it plans the next 50 years.
Felix Desmarais: Fixing the housing crisis should be about what is right, not popular
Opinion: Labour is playing to win elections, not make the changes it believes in.
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'Total insanity': Seymour slams Govt over $70m land purchase
But housing minister says private developers would not deliver the housing Tauranga needs
Derelict landbanked houses 'a travesty', mayor says
'There must be about 150 that are just lying idle, rotting into the ground.'
'Abusive behaviour': Rejected rental tenants lash-out
Frustrations run high as homes become ever harder to find and price hikes 'crippling'
Revealed: Seven motels paid more than $1m each for emergency housing
But one of the moteliers says she would rather have her motel empty.
'Staggering': The city where houses are earning more in a month than most people earn in a year
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Letters: Protests ignore the rights and freedoms of the majority
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Landlords say tax loophole is 'bribe' to switch to social housing
Tax breaks a huge incentive for landlords to evict hard workers - rent to social housing.
Homeless say trying to survive is a 'full-time job'
Men who have been rough sleepers for years speak about their struggles.
Man who lived in cave among million-dollar houses has a new home
But he says a family should have been priority for the house.
$300m partnership: NZ Super Fund and Classic Group to deliver thousands of new homes
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The best in Bay architecture recognised at awards
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Tourism boss sorry after saying Rotorua issues 'massive opportunity' for Tauranga
But the notion has been met with confusion and disappointment from sulphur city leaders.