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Up or down - how does the Official Cash Rate actually affect your mortgage rate?

What is the Official Cash Rate and how does it control lending rates?

Property Insider: Contentious retirement village survey, who wants $500k+ from failed builder

More than 300 NZ retirement villages and 71 operators ranked according to best practice.

ASB takes a punt on some home loan rates ahead of cash rate decision

A 'volatile' global environment was a factor in the home loan rates decision.

The BoP town getting 24 new Kainga Ora homes

There will be 24 new homes in four locations in western Bay of Plenty town.

It's not Auckland: The city where it takes 11.3 years to save a house deposit

The influence of 'wealth' on the property market is one suspected reason for high prices.

Revaluations boost retirement giant Summerset Group's bottom-line profit

CEO Scott Scoullar: 'We withstood challenges and continued to grow.'

To hike or not to hike - economists divided on RBNZ's big rate call

ANZ is expecting the official cash rate to be raised from 5.5 per cent next week.

Letters: Housing costs driving crime; Ginny Andersen’s Mark Mitchell quip

OPINION: & cynical corporates: 'Reminds me of plastic tikis being sold in souvenir shops.'

'Yikes': Queenstown rental requires tenant to share bed with flatmate

The advertisement says the bedmate is 'clean' and 'always busy with work'.

Prosecution of property developer pointless, judge says

Charges against Dave Henderson described as "waste of taxpayers' money" by judge.

What will it take to fix Fletcher Building?

'All they did was inject another level of risk ... the CEO is not the problem here.'

Letters: Why we need to pay more tax; a better Auckland stadium site

OPINION: "NZ will have to learn to make sacrifices and save."

Opened: Ponsonby's new The Greenhouse apartments, 19th block by Ockham Residential

Mayor praised Ockham Residential's apartment buildings as "architecturally fantastic!"

Ponsonby's The Greenhouse apartment building open

Ockham's Mark Todd with architect Tania Wong and Mayor Wayne Brown spoke at this morning's opening. Video / NZHerald

'Dark numbers': Fear housing crisis 'normalised'; region with most need revealed

The charity delivers 92,000 food parcels in a year: 'That’s not a flex'.

Tiny school's win in fight to protect students from 'appalling behaviour'

The school fought to stop intensification impacting children's privacy.