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City of giants: High-rises changing Auckland skyline

The Pacifica building is 70 per cent complete.

National promises to end a 'state house for life'

Should tenants be able to get a state house for life?

Where to find the cheapest rentals in Rotorua

Find out where the cheapest and most expensive areas to rent are.

Petition to Parliament urges apartment law reform

Collins and Kaye push ahead with petition to try get action.

Tenant's $5000 payout: Mouldy flat 'unsuitable for human habitation'

A report found protective clothing was needed just to enter the bedrooms.

'He doesn't care': Landlord under fire for party house rental

A third destructive party in weeks has neighbours in a once sleepy Auckland street irate.

$16m lawsuit: Mt Maunganui leaky building heads for 10-week trial

Scope of claim revealed: 12 parties involved in $16m Mt Maunganui claim

Peter Lewis: It helps for tenants to know their rights

COMMENT: There's no reason to fear eviction when asking for a property to be maintained.

No crackdown on property managers: Faafoi

"This is not a simple issue" - Kris Faafoi, Associate Housing Minister

Airbnb nightmare: Apartment owners bring in drug dogs

The first legal challenges by body corporates against Airbnb hosts in NZ are not far off.

40,000 'ghost houses': Council wants to use them for homeless

The 2018 Census found up to 40,000 empty homes in Auckland.

Real estate bosses campaign for regulation of property managers

Forty organisations and businesses join REINZ to lobby Government

'Ghost houses': Thousands of empty homes in AKL CBD

Despite a housing shortage, the vacancy rate was 11 per cent.

Rogue landlord fined $25,000 for failing to lodge tenants' bonds

Landlord failed to lodge tenants' bonds on 32 separate occasions.

$12.5m Auckland hotel upgrade: 178 to 244 room expansion

The ex-Waldorf Stadium hotel has been expanded.

Dawn Picken: Well-behaved pets no threat to rental properties

Landlords might consider pets home-wreckers, but for many of us, pets are family.