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Opinion: What’s up with Auckland's traffic on Saturdays and Sundays?
The city's growth is bringing more cars, and lots of them.

Best house, worst street? Compare your home's valuation with others in your area
How does your home's value compare within your street, neighbourhood and suburb?

Simon Wilson: Auckland housing, Wayne Brown’s big plan and the silliness of the new speed rules
Opinion: Density is coming whether you like it or not and Wayne Brown has a bold new plan.

Rates burden shifts: Muriwai's unexpected valuation surge
About 80 of Muriwai's 700 homes were bought out by the council.

Government compromises with Auckland on housing, U-turns on 'sausage flat' promise
Auckland will opt out of the 'sausage flat' law but other councils will be forced to stay.

Streets of gold: Auckland's most expensive streets revealed
The average price of homes on Auckland most expensive street is $11m.

Simon Wilson: Before you start ranting about cycleways, please read this!
OPINION: 'Car brain' is ruining the important transport debates we need to have.

Chris Knox: Why it's time to dump Auckland Council's property valuations
OPINION: Council valuations are a year old on release and don't reflect property values.

Opinion: Here are 4 ways to make your home feel warmer this winter
New Zealand faces its first major cold snap of 2025, stressing chilly homes.

Auckland's property valuations are out – search yours
The city's delayed and much-anticipated property valuations are finally out.

New, never-lived-in Auckland apartment project up for mortgagee sale
WFT Finance brought in a subcontractor to finish the apartments before calling Colliers.

Auckland residential property values drop 9%, new CVs to be released this week
Rates will rise by 5.8% from July 1, based on new valuations.

Watch: Firefighters contain large blaze at Penrose car sales and storage yard.
Fire and Emergency NZ crews have contained a large blaze at a car sales and storage yard in Auckland's Penrose this morning. Video / NZ Herald

First look at $1b warehouse hub by James Kirkpatrick Group
Heir's vision becomes a reality: 'Dad wanted this to be the best' – James Kirkpatrick jnr.

From dance to light shows: Your guide to an action-packed Auckland weekend
Events in Auckland this weekend range from traditional Māori culture to radical live art.

CRL opening date revealed, Desley and Wayne make up – Simon Wilson
OPINION: While the CRL opening inches closer, new controversies are erupting.

Neil Finn backs plan for revamped Western Springs concert venue
The music legend said a concert venue was 'an essential part of what makes a city hum'.

'Poor Fletcher Building' - analyst on legal action from SkyCity on NZICC
Poor Fletcher Building. This is what we have come to expect all the time - Swanepoel

Auckland Council privacy breach exposes hundreds of email addresses
The email was sent by West Wave Swim School on Friday morning.

The $80m blackout: How a pylon error plunged Northland into darkness
The power outage cost Northland businesses between $37.5 million and $80 million.

Wayne Brown: These are Auckland's three key areas for economic growth
OPINION: Rate rises have been kept to half the national average, saving $200m.