Latest from Home Truths

Buying a home - Breaking down the jargon

Josh Farry from The Money Men breaks down some of the more confusing aspects of the home buying process.

House prices rise 41% in five years - the impact on Kiwi kids

About 40 per cent of Kiwi kids regularly move house by the age of 8, study finds.

First home buyer confidential: 'The dream of ownership has quickly drifted away'

Wannabe first home buyers on life on the frontline of New Zealand's housing crisis.

Focus: How do young people feel about the housing market?

We ask young people around the NZME office about their home owning aspirations and expectations.

Home Truths: NZ's Affordable Housing Crisis

A look at New Zealand's affordable housing crisis and the way house prices have changed relative to incomes over time. Video / Paul Slater

Interactive: Who's paying the highest rent in NZ?

Red spread: tenants' plight in two major cities revealed - interactive Herald graphics

First home buyers' confidential: What's it like to be a first home buyer?

First home househunting is hell - tell us your story.

Brian Fallow: Choose your weapons in housing fight

First home buyers face financial risk, but Government's focus is on investors.

Hamish Rutherford: Reserve Bank's preferred lending tool would hit investors 'hard'

Reserve Bank appears to soften stance that new lending rule needs to apply to everyone.

Home Truths: A happy ending

Young couple widened their search area and just bought their dream home.

Home truth: First buyers need $670k

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

$150k newly-weds face new-home reality

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

Who will fund Auckland's future?

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

Time for action on house prices

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

'Victim of success' excuses wearing thin

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