A new book is out to help landlords, with a series of forms ranging from notices to increase rent to a dog clause document.

This five-bedroom bungalow has seen five generations through it, but you wouldn't know it.

On paper, it looks like Andy Davies owns half of Auckland. In real life, the $75 million-plus man wears holey jerseys and lives in a Freemans Bay 'do-up'.

The value of New Zealand investment buildings sold last year was back to pre-global financial crash levels.

An 8.6 per cent stake in giant listed landlord and Sylvia Park owner Kiwi Income Property Trust is now in play.

The next big financial disaster to hit New Zealand investors could involve a collapse in house prices or the sharemarket, says departing investment watchdog boss Sean Hughes.

A financier has sold 65 Quay Park apartments and eight shops and offices on Maori land to a developer in a multimillion-dollar deal.

Rules slash number of low-deposit mortgages but house buyers still encouraged to ask.

The number of first home buyers in the market since the introduction of new Reserve Bank mortgage restrictions last month has plummeted, real estate agents are reporting.

A Kiwibank mortgage manager has been reined in after wrongly telling a customer it was pulling low deposit pre-approvals.

Much-publicised, long awaited changes to Auckland's canyon-like Federal St car rat run.

Finance companies could make a comeback in the wake of the Reserve Bank's clampdown on low deposit lending by banks.

Experts say tighter mortgage lending rules will only a partially ease house prices, writes Jamie Gray.

A four-bedroom home in Epsom has sold for more than $1 million - or 82 per cent - above valuation.

The Government has set a deadline of 20 years for assessing 193,000 buildings for earthquake risk and strengthening them.

Luxury retailer Saks has agreed to sell itself to Hudson's Bay Co, the Canadian parent of upscale retailer Lord & Taylor, for about US$2.4 billion.

Plans by the Labour Party to exclude foreign buyers from the housing market have sparked more calls for restrictions and warnings about the risk of damaging the country's relationships with its major trading partners.

It's risky policy for a liberal, left-of-centre party because it leaves them open to accusations of xenophobia, writes Liam Dann.

Jamie Peters salvaged property from his "crumbling" businesses, secured hundreds of thousands of dollars for his family and managed his bankruptcy on his own terms, the High Court has been told.

Jamie Peters was put up in a $1200&-a-week Remuera house by a company that almost a year earlier had cancelled the bankrupt property developer's employment agreement.

More than $300,000 from the sale of a $2 million luxury yacht ended up with a company directed by his father-in-law, a court heard yesterday.

A former rich-lister is back at the High Court today, fighting to be discharged from bankruptcy - one of 24 the Official Assignee has objected to releasing.

A Bankrupt Kiwi property developer is still living in a 660sq m Las Vegas home despite defaulting on its $2.8 million mortgage four years ago.