COMMENT: No one can save fast enough to match house price increase, writes Andrew Laxon.

An Auckland couple who have spent weeks hunting a new home tell of their downsized dreams.

COMMENT: Housing will never lose its political potency, writes Audrey Young.

Editorial: A year on from our Home Truths series, housing remains unaffordable for most.

COMMENT: What will Auckland's housing market look like in decade, asks Liam Dann.

A young Russian migrant bought $1.7m of Auckland properties in 4 years, here's how.

Aimee Russell started saving in high school to put together a $150,000 house deposit.

An Auckland couple in two years went from nothing to buying two homes - one in the city.

Millennials share how they've managed to buy their first Auckland homes.

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.

The property of people resisting development could be seized if the land is within certain areas marked for housing development.

The Government has begun discussions with the Reserve Bank about income-related restrictions on mortgage lending, Finance Minister Bill English has confirmed.

COMMENT: Cap means a home buyer in Auckland would have to have an income of more than $220,000.

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.

The Reserve Bank says housing and dairy debt are major risks to the economy and changes to LVRs are possible.

The Auckland apartment building that defies the logic on renting.

Aucklanders appear to be being short-changed when it comes to accessing a Government subsidy aimed at helping first home-buyers.

Prime Minister John Key has made a speech at the opening of the Employers and Manufacturers' Association. Issues with Auckland's housing and transport are 'quality problems', he says. Video: Anne Gibson

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.

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.

Just seven months after new valuations were set for Hamilton homes, some are already fetching up to $205,000 above those figures.

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.

Councillor Jan Sedgwick on why Te Kauwhata is a good choice for Auckland house buyers

Te Kauwhata is drawing Auckland house buyers forced from their home town by spiraling prices. Developer Ryan Castles on what's available to home hunters

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.

Almost one in 10 houses in Auckland change hands within a year, a much higher turnover rate than the rest of New Zealand.