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Wrong gender: Students denied rentals for being male

Property owner tells students the rental was available only to 'six studious females'.

Lockdown blues: Buyer risks losing $120k deposit because seller won't delay settlement

New buyer can't complete final sale paper work during lockdown. But seller won't budge.

Second Auckland landlord giving hundreds of tenants rent breaks

Masfen Group is assisting hundreds of tenants struggling with the impact of Covid.

Auckland Council again delays CV revaluation due to Covid

Council expects to release city CVs in December after they were originally due last year.

No rent rise freezes, mortgage deferrals 'at this stage'

No sign yet of the mortgage holidays and rent freezes of 2020's lockdown.

Robertson and Orr see house prices becoming more 'sustainable'

"There's a shared view that house price growth has been unsustainable," Robertson said.

First-home buyers face needing an extra $90k after Reserve Bank clampdown

Analyst estimates how much extra it could take to secure a mortgage.

Apartment boom: New builds hit record in Auckland

There are enough to house the entire Queenstown population.

Editorial: Property prices ease - what's next?

EDITORIAL: Headwinds face the property market and these may accelerate the slowdown.

National accuses Govt of 'pumped-up' housing numbers

Only half of the 'new' public housing supply added by the Government is actually new.

Comment | What Covid-19 has taught me about the housing crisis in New Zealand

Covid-19 has shown us that we can do hard things when they're needed. So why don't we?

Revealed: Where Auckland rents are rising fastest

The areas becoming pricier than others.

Dream on Auckland: Check out what a few million buys in Christchurch

$2m gets you rundown, toilet-less villa in Auckland. Money goes a lot further down south.

Are Aucklanders ready for apartment living to fix the housing shortage?

Heritage groups worry high rises are coming inner Auckland. Developers say get used to it.

Landlord fined $8900 over substandard sleepout, unexpected visits

Sleepout was powered by extension cords from the main house.

House sales fall, prices rise less than 1% in Auckland

Volumes and prices often drop during the cooler months - or is this different?