Mortgage interests over Queenstown's luxury Hilton Hotel have been sold in an $80.5 million deal involving Chinese businesses.

By next year more than half of all new homes built in Auckland will be part of apartment blocks or terraced homes.

Which suburbs now have a median house price of more than a million dollars?

Chinese buyers could be back in the Auckland property market and if not now, they would be soon, experts say.

Sales data from New Zealand's biggest real estate agency showed a 17 per cent annual price jump for Auckland and Northland.

Property market tables turned - check your region to see how it fares.

Auckland University property researcher Dr Michael Rehm said the figures showed that long-term homeowners in the "hot spots" of Auckland could cash up but people living elsewhere had fewer options.

Auckland's housing "bubble" is worsening inequality, says Salvation Army.

Auckland property values fell last month, but the market's still surging in many parts of New Zealand.

Auckland property values fell last month, says QV, as new rules dented investor demand.

An Auckland property specialist with links to Chinese investment community predicts a huge inflow of capital into Auckland's property market this year.

Making a movie about collateralised debt obligations and credit default swaps that is both compelling and accurate is quite some achievement.

Auckland is one of the world's least affordable cities to buy a home. See here the homes that you can get for the median price around the world.

Roger MacDonald, the new chief executive of Auckland Council's Panuku Development Auckland, gives his take on the year ahead.

Auckland house prices are expected to rise at more modest levels in 2016 as lending curbs for investors offset likely declines in mortgage rates.

The latest QV stats revealed that Auckland's house value increases slowed to almost snail's pace last month.

Quotable Value figures out tomorrow are expected to show a cooling in prices in December.

Auckland Council is understood to be releasing maps tomorrow showing large swathes of suburban Auckland being rezoned for multiple townhouses and apartments.

Interest rates might be sinking but council rates are rising and that could drive rents up.

Housing's perfect storm as cost of renting a typical home in Auckland hits new high.

In a raging property market, it's possible to have a million-dollar home and no cash, writes Joanna Mathers.

ANZ, Westpac, Kiwibank and BNZ have now cut mortgage rates after the Reserve Bank reduced the OCR to a record low of 2.5 per cent.

More than 11 new retirement villages will need to be built annually to cater for our aging population.

A $50 million-plus housing project at Albany identified as the site of a shoddy-building video has been issued with four notices by Auckland Council to fix work.

Auckland's property market showed signs of slowing last month, with a 7.7 per cent fall in sales and new listings dropping by a similar amount.

INTERACTIVE: Confidential maps show a big squeeze in some of Auckland's poshest and poorest streets.

Economists at Westpac and ASB forecast a drop in the OCR to 2 per cent next year.

Just imagine if someone told you the ratepayers of Auckland and the taxpayers of New Zealand were giving billions of dollars to the wealthiest property owners.

Twenty years ago they bought a 4ha lifestyle block in Whenuapai's Brigham Creek Rd for $285,000. This month they sold it for $7 million.