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City slickers buy log cabin given $3m upgrade by Yogi Bear’s builder
Kiwi who brought Hollywood blockbuster to life was called in to save standout home.

From hawking fruit out of a van to selling $260m of property in NZ's wealthiest beach town
Bayleys agent Victoria Turner is hooked on selling.

New Plymouth home is jam-packed with paintings - 'pretty much everything has a story'
Vendor wasn't allowed anything on the walls as a child. She's more than made up for that.

'Do not enter': Ex-police house contaminated by asbestos up for grabs
The property had been taken over by squatters.

Animal lover's house sells for $695,000 - and all the money goes to the dogs
Proceeds of the sale will be used to train seven pups as service dogs.

Tony Alexander: An abrupt end to falling interest rates in 2025
The outlook for next year may be disappointing.

Young woman with terminal cancer is on the hunt for her dream home
Dominique McShain-Suson was given shock diagnosis two weeks before her 21st birthday.

Kāinga Ora axes 60% of social housing projects planned for 2025
The scrapped developments would have provided 1019 homes.

'Some of them will be selling at a loss' - market flooded with townhouses
Hundreds of new or near-new two-bedroom homes are up for grabs.

Family who lost their home in the floods catch a break after worst start ever
Their run of bad luck comes to an end with a new house and a $100,000 donation

'Hidden' compound snapped up by Auckland family after getting $13.25m price tag
Sale of Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired home likely to be one of this year's biggest.

Watercare 'blindsides' Auckland developers - 'people will go under'
Plans for new housing halted following release of new map.

Vogue comes to West Auckland: Couple turned home over to who’s who of NZ art
Bungalow hits the market with studios that have been used by leading artists.

Buyers and vendor in tears after artist's cottage sells for 'ridiculously cheap' price
The home was "chock full" of antiques.

My house price hunch: Why 2025 could be the ‘year of conflicting forces’
The five things you need to know about the housing market this week.

'We've had quite a few kamikaze buyers' - Agent blows his boom tally out of the water
Diego Traglia says sales hit an all-time high last month thanks to falling interest rates.

Real estate agent sells his grandma’s old house for $1.88m
He will make more in commission than she paid for the house.

Mysterious lifestyle block sells for $65,000 - almost $600,000 below RV
The new owner plans to use it for storage.

House with no kitchen sells for nearly $3m
The new-build was deliberately sold with "blank spaces" that the buyer could fill in.

FOBO knocks city for six: What is it and what is it doing to house prices?
Forget FOMO - buyers are waiting for something better to come along.

Award-winning home next to billionaire’s mansion snapped up for secret sum
Striking Westmere home had a CV of $10m.

Revealed: Banks put the brakes on 'secret' mortgage rate discounts
Four behind-the-scenes changes that will hit borrowers hard.

24 nerve-wracking hours! Homeowners avoid financial ruin with $866,000 sale
One-day auction campaign a success.

Kiwi maths genius on the hunt for UK home after family sells up
Tristan Pang is completing a PhD at Oxford University.

Heavenly Creatures bach for sale - 'my husband liked to say Kate Winslet was in his bed'
Property linked to Parker–Hulme murder case once hosted Sir Peter Jackson and his stars.

Listed yesterday, must be sold today: Homeowners have one day to beat the bank
Stressed sellers need to sell their home before lender takes possession.

Young Auckland family snaps up iconic turret house for record-breaking sum
Historic Te Awamutu home had been restored to its former glory.

Swimming champ's $1.6m auction win after four-year home renovation saga
Georgia Marris Smith and her carpenter husband took a gamble on a damp Auckland house.

The castle that's got the whole town talking - first chance in half a century to see inside
Couple's dream home has a turret and a moat-like swimming pool.