One of New Zealand's few privately owned islands is in the process of being sold for more than $7 million.

The rural property market has remained remarkably resilient in the face of lower farm-gate prices and dry summer conditions, with prices - by some measures - returning to pre-global financial crisis....

An island about 4km off the Coromandel coast is being marketed as a boutique tourism venture or the ultimate private hideaway.

About 1400 private bach owners on the Coromandel face being stung with a new council charge if their properties are rented out as short-term holiday accommodation.

The historic Craigieburn Station, in the central Canterbury foothills, has come up for sale for the first time in 98 years.

Australia has tightened the rules on foreign purchases of agricultural land and has reduced the ownership screening threshold to A$15 million from A$252 million.

The sale of Bunnings Cambridge, south of Hamilton in the Waikato, presents an opportunity to acquire a large, quality retail premises leased to a national company brand.

In dramatic terms 2014 ended with several big business and economic stories on cliff- hangers.

Mark Hotchin is heading to the Supreme Court in his attempt to join Hanover trustees into the Financial Market Authority's civil action against him.

Farmers from southern provinces are moving to Northland to take advantage of the comparatively cheap dairy farms on offer there, according to real estate agency Bayleys.

A finance company directed by Mark Hotchin and Eric Watson has convinced a High Court judge to keep freezing orders over two properties as it chases down a $300,000 loan.

In the latest Herald series on election policies, we look at whether parties are paying attention to voter's worries about land sales to overseas buyers.

A majority of voters approve of farm sales to foreigners only when it brings a significant advantage over a New Zealand buyer such as jobs, according to the latest Herald-DigiPoll survey.

Sales of farmland to foreigners has become a heated issue just before the election, writes Phil O'Reilly.

An unlikely pairing suggests that the sale of Lochinver Station to Shanghai Pengxin Group is one sale to foreign interests too many, writes John Armstrong.

Hollywood film tycoon James Cameron has made two further farm purchases but the prices have been suppressed.

A German breeder of Arabian horses is selling her large farm south of Auckland.

Home owners, sitting on a near tripling of house prices over the past 20 years, are largely immune to warnings that the housing market is overheated.

Property expert Jonno Ingerson joined us for a live chat, with the Reserve Bank expected to lift official interest rates later this week.

A big block of dairy land owned by Solid Energy is being put up for sale in Eastern Southland, PGG Wrightson Real Estate said.

City Impact Church founders Peter and Bev Mortlock are selling their Whangaparaoa mansion - and its pricetag has surprised one church member.

Ground work preparations are well under way on the new Fonterra headquarters site in the Viaduct Harbour area on the corner of Fanshawe St and Halsey St.

A members bill put forward by Labour’s Phil Goff which would tighten up rules for foreigners buying rural land will be debated in Parliament after it was drawn from the ballot.

Singaporean interests got consent to buy 23,471ha of rural South Island farmland in seven sheep stations.