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Stonefields terrace breaks the $2m mark for first time in a year
Auction result suggests price revival in master-planned suburb.
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Data shows the locations first buyer should be looking at.
Lucy Lawless detective show apartment sells for $2.45m
Two bidders compete for loft that starred in hit TV series My Life Is Murder.
Agents criticise Luxon’s foreign buyer U-turn: ‘Such an inept negotiator’
Cuts will no longer be funded by foreign buyer tax on sales of $2m-plus properties.
Interactive: How much have mortgage repayments jumped in your suburb?
Some house buyers are needing to stump up an extra $780 a fortnight.
Power List: Who owns Mitre 10 stores throughout New Zealand?
Structure of this shy 49-year-old giant a quietly brilliant story of co-operative success.
Downtown car park sold: Precinct announces conditional deal
Conditional deal agreed to, buyer says, but sale is controversial.
Golfers squeezed? Shock Gulf Harbour Country Club land sale plan
Opponents say scheme 'a cynical and disingenuous attempt to over-build Gulf Harbour'.
Tauranga’s biggest waterfront property up for grabs
Waterfront suburb of Matua a bargain compared to Mount Maunganui.
Punishing $226.5m devaluations: $4.7b landlord in red
Movement in fair value of investment properties: on profit and loss account at -$226.5m.
House across the road from Taika Waititi and Rita Ora sells for $4.175m
Local family snaps up one of the best homes in Pt Chev.
Sold in four days: Desperate buyers smash the competition with $3.3m bid
“They had been looking for six months and couldn’t find anything."
Sir Peter Jackson's Shelly Bay waterfront property
An update on Shelly Bay, prime waterfront real-estate which has been bought by Sir Peter Jackson. Video / Mark Mitchell
Riskiest bet of their life: $1 reserve gamble pays off
“I think you just have to believe in the process.”
Tony Alexander: 119,000 reasons for an early rate cut ... but there’s a downside too
Expect housing affordability to worsen as migration soars.
Rich Listers agent on TV fame and real estate graft
"My team allows me to do three things: list, sell and talk to people."
Inside ex-All Black’s luxury retreat: Aaron Smith selling his coastal pad
Four-bedroom renovated home boasts impressive water views.
Will incoming Government cull civil servant numbers?
Capital CBD could take a hit if layoffs unleashed.
Retirement giant's profit leaps 24pc but shareholders won't get interim dividend
'Directors resolved not to pay an interim dividend to provide for ongoing investment.'
Repeat offender: Illegal Albany Heights work brings $34k fine
As it turned out, it wasn’t Danny on the digger but Tao Ma, pretending to be Danny.
Cash buyer snaps up Sir John Key’s former bach for secret sum
Beachfront property had a CV of $5.4m.
Homeowner fumes at lack of action over cliff collapse
A man who owns a home above a startling slip waits and waits for council action.
Lakeside baches for sale for ultra cheap price - so what’s the catch?
They are a third cheaper than their freehold equivalents - but ground rents have spiked.
Court orders permanent ban for fraudster to protect public
He is studying law fulltime at AUT and hopes to be admitted to the bar.
Privately-owned seawall under construction is rising at Shore beach
Building at Belmont follows recent action at Point Wells over illegal seawalls.
Property Insider: Iwi keen to acquire $125m Epsom campus
The university 'has profited enormously off our gifts of land since 1840', the iwi says.
NZ’s top 60 real estate agents: Meet the super-listers
Meet the agents who are selling New Zealand.
The $1.4b hippy: NZ’s busiest real estate agent spills his secrets
OneRoof's No.1 listing agent Cameron Bailey on what gets him through the day.
Rental squeeze has only just begun - Aucklanders paying thousands more a year
The five things you need to know about the housing market this week.
Power couple: ‘We sell everything - even listings other agents won’t touch’
Yvenna Yue and Craig Annandale are polar opposites - but that's what makes them work.
New Zealand's most controversial marina opens today
About 60 boats are booked to be in to Kennedy Point marina before Christmas.