Farm sales are going well compared to last year, despite many farmers hunkering down for the winter season.

"I see tourists regularly and they ask is there somewhere to eat and sleep?" Ken Turner's planned eco tourism venture would've been impossible earlier.

Auckland has lost 4 per cent of its most fertile rural land to housing over the past two decades and is set to lose more under the strain of a million more residents.

A vacant section on New Zealand's most expensive residential street is expected to sell for millions.

The number of lifestyle block sales has almost doubled in Auckland in the past three years.

Auckland Council and the Government have struck a deal to fast-track plans to free up land for residential department.

A private country estate north of Auckland will soon start selling lots set amongst New Zealand's largest truffle plantation.

The mystery Jeep at the centre of the murder of George Taiaroa was seen partly parked off a rural road moments before the road worker was gunned down nearby.

A secret Auckland Council agenda item has revealed the Wynyard Quarter as a possible site for Fonterra's planned new $100 million campus-style world HQ.

Government to place a six-month time limit on processing consents for medium-size projects including housing developments as part of push to make homes affordable.

Prime Minister John Key says fast-tracking the supply of land will help solve the housing affordability crisis.