A total of 110 Viaduct Capital secured depositors are owed NZ$7.8 million, including accrued capitalised interest. Under the Crown retail deposit guarantee 94 depositors owed NZ$7.3 million are covered.

A new survey shows the number of New Zealanders interested in investing in residential property has declined significantly, for the first time in several years.

The man behind the $27m purchase of a Queenstown property development from Allied Farmers is declining to say how the deal is being financed amid speculation Allied may be helping him.

A top economist says the property market is "stuck in neutral at best", but REINZ says property prices in the main centres are holding up well.

It's really easy to cut out the middleman.

A report prepared by business researcher Infometrics is predicting house prices will fall 4.1 per cent by next June.

The fundamental problems with the NZ housing market are coming home to roost, writes Bernard Hickey.

Receivers say they will make a payout to investors of between 1.5c and 2.5c in the dollar within the next 4 weeks.

A "do-nothing" sentiment is gripping the property market and the number of house sales is down a third from a year ago, says the valuation agency QV.

Auckland house prices held firm in July, but the number of sales slipped, new numbers suggest.

A court was told this morning that businesswoman May Wang owes the company Latitude Asia $2.5 million.

Strategic Finance's trustee has appointed liquidators to the failed property lender - saying they will have wider powers than the receivers to scrutinise deals made.

It's clear the economy has become dependent on the debt growth fuelled by the housing market's ever-increasing values.

For the 240 investors in Fiji's Denarau Hilton, the past 18 months have been anything but paradise.

NZers will look back on the winter of 2010 as the moment we finally realised the last decade of growth was a sham.