The lawyer of woman who defended Cornwall Park Trust Board’s $170k lawsuit over back rent suspects her opponents may appeal.

Barfoot and Thompson has just released its annual landlord survey - and it revealed most are planning to put rents up by about 5 per cent.

Owning your own home is the "Kiwi dream" but it's becoming out of reach for a lot of people. But fear not, here's ten reasons why you might prefer to stay renting.

The Maori Party would make a warrant of fitness for all rental properties compulsory within three years if it gets into government.

Auckland landlords are hiking rents amid fears of big rates increases next year on the back of spiralling property values.

A "warrant of fitness" scheme for all rental housing may be on the agenda whoever wins the election in September, a new survey has found.

Landlords are too lenient when a tenant falls behind in rent or causes damage, property managers say.

A landlord whose property was left in squalor by a tenant owing more than $6k rent and another who caused $28,000 damage, says renting is risky.

First time landlords are being warned to check how much tax they may need to pay on rental incomes ahead of the July 7 deadline.

An Auckland landlord wants tenants to rent his caravan without a toilet or shower at his Sandringham property, advertising the "Arabian nights" bargain at $200 a week.

Yong Xin Chen bought a leasehold $2.4 million Greenlane property from the Cornwall Park Trust Board expecting to develop it, the High Court has been told.

Yong Xin Chen, being sued for more than $300k after abandoning her leasehold Greenlane property, broke down crying in court yesterday.

Ground rent of $173k is being sought from Yong Xin Chen in a case being brought by the Cornwall Park Trust Board.

A woman who walked away from her multi-million dollar Auckland house has failed to get legal costs in a battle over freezing assets.

'Cave' dwellers will officially get top priority for social housing under new rules that kicked in this week.

Restored cottage on Rangitoto will soon take paying holidaymakers back to 1930s.

Auckland landlords are making more capital gains off their rental properties than those elsewhere, a trend predicted to speed up in the next few years.

State houses will have to be leak-free, well-ventilated and contain an electric light in each room to get a warrant of fitness.

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

Renters are paying up to $70 more a week than they were four years ago in some of Auckland's city fringe suburbs.

Police are trying to track down the owner of an Auckland rental property bought for almost $1 million last year which was destroyed by the young tenants.

Changes in design, funding and land use will deliver healthy, sustainable communities, writes Glen Sowry.

An enterprising landlord has been swamped with inquiries about his modest rental property after offering a free holiday as a sweetener to prospective tenants.

House rental prices in Auckland could rise up to 50 per cent in some areas because new mortgage lending restrictions are pushing would-be home owners to rent.

The prices of necessities such as shelter and food are rising at a faster rate than non-essential items, particularly manufactured goods, writes Peter Lyons.

A West Coast woman who told a court she could only afford to pay $2 a week to her former landlord was caught out trying to buy $62 of cigarettes by a judge at the supermarket.

The Cornwall Park Trust Board has extended an olive branch to cash-strapped ground renters, offering to change the terms of 110 controversial leases.

It's no secret that Kiwis have a love affair with property. Any spare money goes into bricks and mortar, rather than a weighty investment portfolio.