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Home values rise at fastest pace in year

QV's latest figures show NZ house values have risen at the fastest pace in 15 months.

Goodman's $45.8m Auckland projects

Goodman Property Trust, the country's second-biggest listed property investor, has ratcheted up development plans with four new industrial projects in Auckland worth $45.8 million.

Geoff Barnett: Auckland's housing market dominance only going to grow

With annual price growth at 13.9 per cent, it is no surprise Auckland is increasingly dominant in lifting the country's overall growth rate, writes Geoff Barnett.

Rising house prices put lenders at risk

Surging Auckland house prices would put New Zealand's lenders at risk if there was a significant downturn.

Warning over Sydney housing bubble

House prices in Sydney rose 15 per cent in May from a year earlier, prompting a warning of a price bubble in Australia's biggest city.

Homeowner 'an exception'

An Auckland student who became a homeowner at just 22-years-old is not a fair representation of all students, says the national students' association.

Student becomes property investor

While thousands of Aucklanders despair at their chances of owning a house, a determined 22-year-old student is proof it can be done.

Auckland's projects revealed

Surplus Crown land at Manukau, Avondale, Massey East and Hobsonville are set to be offered up to private development companies.

Property speculators a 'blight'

Head of Auckland's biggest new housing precinct says people looking for short-term fix aren't welcome.

Agents welcome new tax rules

Agents have welcomed new measures to track foreigners buying property but say tougher moves on money laundering are needed.

Measures 'just stalling for time'

Moves to crackdown on property speculators have been welcomed as a step in the right direction by market commentators but one analyst says the changes may be too little too late.

John Armstrong: National's challenge to avoid looking tired

Thursday's Budget will be judged just as much by what is missing from the document as by what it actually contains.

One-two punch effect to be stark, Bagrie

Economists are divided over the likely impact on the Auckland property market of new tax moves to target speculators.

Property rules prompt fears

The Government's property speculator tax crackdown will lead to large-scale real estate dumping before its October 1 start and widespread evasion and avoidance, experts say.

Warning property investors

RBNZ housing speech sparked action

Prime Minister John Key all but conceded that pressure from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand for action on house prices was a catalyst for recent announcements.