Cost of insuring a Kiwi home rising six times faster than incomes
The cost of insuring what’s inside a home has risen even faster.
Heartbreak and hope on the first-home buyer frontline
They wrote of their home ownership dreams in July. How have our first-home buyers fared?
Are tiny homes the answer to our housing crisis?
"People say 'we just can't afford a normal house'," says HouseMe's Bryce Glover
The new-era homeowners: The innovative new ways to get into the property market
Rent to buy, suburban high rise, retirement flatting: meet some new ways to own a home.
Home Truths: Welcome home - is this a key solution to NZ's property crisis?
The not-for-profit housing sector is trying to fill a big hole, with some success.
Liam Dann: Will rising interest rates deflate NZ's housing bubble?
The policy pieces are all falling into place, but will the housing market listen?
Exodus: Thousands flee Auckland in search of cheaper homes
More than 41,000 people left Auckland in search of greener pastures in just five years.
House prices rise 41% in five years - the impact on Kiwi kids
About 40 per cent of Kiwi kids regularly move house by the age of 8, study finds.
First home buyer confidential: 'The dream of ownership has quickly drifted away'
Wannabe first home buyers on life on the frontline of New Zealand's housing crisis.
Interactive: Who's paying the highest rent in NZ?
Red spread: tenants' plight in two major cities revealed - interactive Herald graphics
First home buyers' confidential: What's it like to be a first home buyer?
First home househunting is hell - tell us your story.
Home Truths Highlights 2016
Highlights 2016
Is this the only way for young buyers?
When Vicki and Mike Crosby's daughter and her partner started looking for a house, Mum and Dad put up their hands to help.
Readers share their market woes
From low incomes to high, young and old, Aucklanders and Southlanders - many Kiwis are feeling the effects.
Liam Dann: Auckland's reality a bummer
COMMENT: What's happening in Auckland is a slow-motion disaster. And it is not a zero sum game. Many are benefiting while we watch others lose out.
Auckland house prices outstrip Sydney
Auckland's runaway house prices have made an average home in the city more expensive than Sydney.
Buying frenzy puts homes out of reach
Investors chasing capital gains in Auckland property market are making it harder for first-home buyers to afford a house. Andrew Laxon outlines problems.
10 ways to tackle the housing crisis
The Herald's Home Truths series has highlighted the serious problems that make our housing unaffordable - but also pointed to some solutions.
Toby Manhire: Auckland - world's most leavable city?
COMMENT: The housing affordability crisis is enough to have you waking in the middle of the night - sweating and screaming.
Our house hunters - in their own words
At the end of Home Truths series, the three would-be buyers who invited readers to follow their journey tell Andrew Laxon how they found the experience.
Our first home - $120,000 over budget
A couple who have been struggling to afford a house for two years find their dream home in west Auckland.
Brian Fallow: Choose your weapons in housing fight
First home buyers face financial risk, but Government's focus is on investors.
Hamish Rutherford: Reserve Bank's preferred lending tool would hit investors 'hard'
Reserve Bank appears to soften stance that new lending rule needs to apply to everyone.
'Tragedy for the future': The housing crisis and our children
As Aotearoa's housing crisis deepens, experts warn of intergenerational impacts.
House prices: Experts predict where the market is headed
Home Truths: Could this month's Budget offer more policies to drive affordable housing?
'I hate the house inspections': What it's like to be renting for life
The silent shame of the housing crisis - renters who should be able to buy, but can't.
Home truths: 2016 house hunters' joy at joining the property ladder
A dog, two babies and three much-loved homes - a lot's happened since 2016.
Hamish Rutherford: Housing fix a game of whack-a-mole
OPINION: Move on property investors seems likely to create problem for low-income renters.
'Dangerous' Auckland home renovation shut down
"If the place is dangerous, it needs to be fixed immediately as there are lives at risk."
Tenant had to sleep in hallway after landlord failed to provide keys
An Auckland landlord has been ordered to pay compensation for the emotional harm caused.
A home with no insulation: Damp, mouldy and big power bills
Comment: With new insulation laws now in effect, what rights do current tenants have?
Home Truths: A happy ending
Young couple widened their search area and just bought their dream home.
Home truth: First buyers need $670k
COMMENT: No one can save fast enough to match house price increase, writes Andrew Laxon.
$150k newly-weds face new-home reality
An Auckland couple who have spent weeks hunting a new home tell of their downsized dreams.
Time for action on house prices
Editorial: A year on from our Home Truths series, housing remains unaffordable for most.
Who will fund Auckland's future?
COMMENT: What will Auckland's housing market look like in decade, asks Liam Dann.
'Victim of success' excuses wearing thin
COMMENT: Housing will never lose its political potency, writes Audrey Young.
10 tips to get on the property ladder
A young Russian migrant bought $1.7m of Auckland properties in 4 years, here's how.
23yo's dream home: 'I almost lost hope'
Aimee Russell started saving in high school to put together a $150,000 house deposit.
From nothing to two homes in two years
An Auckland couple in two years went from nothing to buying two homes - one in the city.
How to buy a home before you turn 30
Millennials share how they've managed to buy their first Auckland homes.
Our first home - $120,000 over budget
A couple who have been struggling to afford a house for two years find their dream home in west Auckland.
Apartments still good option - Key
Prime Minister John Key has stood by comments that people need to look to apartments as a first home option - despite 35 Auckland property projects collapsing in the past year.
10 ways to tackle the housing crisis
The Herald's Home Truths series has highlighted the serious problems that make our housing unaffordable - but also pointed to some solutions.
Two-tiered attack on house hikes
The property of people resisting development could be seized if the land is within certain areas marked for housing development.
Talks begin on debt-to-income ratios
The Government has begun discussions with the Reserve Bank about income-related restrictions on mortgage lending, Finance Minister Bill English has confirmed.
Barry Soper: Tax cuts are the least of our worries
COMMENT: Cap means a home buyer in Auckland would have to have an income of more than $220,000.
The $405K block to home buyers
A typical household would be blocked from getting a mortgage of more than $405,000 under debt-to-income restrictions being considered by the Reserve Bank.
Reserve Bank tips tighter lending
The Reserve Bank says housing and dairy debt are major risks to the economy and changes to LVRs are possible.
Could buying this flat beat renting it?
The Auckland apartment building that defies the logic on renting.
Missing out on first-home subsidy
Aucklanders appear to be being short-changed when it comes to accessing a Government subsidy aimed at helping first home-buyers.
Chinese teen's gutsy letter to Kiwis
A NZ-born Chinese teenager has blasted the attitudes of some Kiwis towards her, saying they see her as "just another foreigner" here to buy their houses.
Houses trumping latest council CVs
Just seven months after new valuations were set for Hamilton homes, some are already fetching up to $205,000 above those figures.
Felix Marwick: Politicians lack will to deliver tough medicine on housing
COMMENT: We've all got high on our burgeoning property prices and no politician will likely have the courage to take our fix, and our paper wealth, away, writes Felix Marwick.
Editorial: A few home truths for our leaders
EDITORIAL: Our "Home Truths" series has concluded with some possible solutions to runaway house prices that leave many facing rented housing for the rest of lives.
Our house hunters - in their own words
At the end of Home Truths series, the three would-be buyers who invited readers to follow their journey tell Andrew Laxon how they found the experience.
Housing turnover highest in Auckland
Almost one in 10 houses in Auckland change hands within a year, a much higher turnover rate than the rest of New Zealand.
Toby Manhire: Auckland - world's most leavable city?
COMMENT: The housing affordability crisis is enough to have you waking in the middle of the night - sweating and screaming.
Editorial: Reserve Bank in quandary over housing
The bank and the Government need new solutions to the economic damage being done by this raging house market.
Paul Glass: No real political will to tackle the housing crisis
The only sensible conclusion an observer can come to is that there is no real political will to address the housing crisis, Paul Glass writes.
Raybon Kan: Will housing correction be Key's lasting legacy?
COMMENT: People without residency shouldn't be allowed to own NZ real estate. Land is the fundamental ingredient of a country, writes Raybon Kan.
The risks of a $500 property scheme
Sounds easy? Some real estate experts are pointing out some potential flaws in the new scheme.
Why I didn't buy a house in Auckland
Colin Chisholm turned down the chance to buy a house in Auckland two years ago, instead putting his money into shares and start-up businesses.
English: Tie housing supply to affordability
Bill English says the Government could set a house price-to-income ratio to ensure councils release the right amount of land to keep housing affordable.
Liam Dann: Key's shift acknowledges voter angst
COMMENT: John Key's latest shimmy shows the winds of change are blowing on National attitudes to housing.
$500 to get into the property market?
It's tough to get into Auckland property - is buying shares in a single house the answer?
Bryan Gould: House prices won't cool until banks restrained
COMMENT: Tweaking interest rates or imposing a low rate of land tax to cool the housing market is likely to be ineffective, writes Bryan Gould.
Nicholas Ross Smith, Zbigniew Dumienski: Key finally strikes at issue's heart
COMMENT: Land tax is arguably the simplest, easiest to administer and most effective solution to housing unaffordability.