A deep analysis of mortgage registrations has revealed which areas of NZ are the most and least leveraged, and which bank is winning the cut-throat mortgage war.

Developers hit at calls to change school zone rules for prestigious Auckland schools.

Expand top Auckland schools, don't shut out people from their enrolment zones, says one property developer.

These words offer the chance of access to the prestigious and successful Auckland Grammar School and Epsom Girls Grammar School.

It'll be Auckland's tallest apartment block - 187m high with 221 apartments all looking north across the Waitemata Harbour.

Gabriel Makhlouf has raised concerns that Auckland "NIMBYism" may be having a negative impact on "people elsewhere in the country".

A rotting villa transformed into a Grey Lynn masterpiece sold for $2.825 million, the Herald can finally reveal.

Recent migrants from China are looking to save themselves a fortune by picking up raw land at Hobsonville.

Inside the 19th century Auckland cottage that sits on a 73sqm section and is sandwiched between two apartment blocks.

COMMENT: The figures confirmed the Auckland housing market is running hot through the winter and the heat from that "halo" is spreading around the country.

John Banks' multi-million dollar Auckland CBD penthouse - complete with silk-lined walls and marble-clad bathrooms and floors - is on the market.

The finest homes in Auckland and Northland have been revealed.

Consumer confidence recovers in June as more jobs, rising house prices lift sentiment.

Fletcher Building's residential division has signed a deal with the government to build 196 homes on Crown land.

A modest Whangarei bungalow has sold for $230,000 above its capital value - has the world gone mad?

New Zealand's national house price gained to a record high in May, rising above $500,000 for the first time, as five regions hit all-time highs.

It's getting more expensive to buy a house in two Australian states if you live overseas.

COMMENT: After a couple of months to assess the market's reaction, they now see that the market drivers of high demand and low supply still persist.

Auckland has about 45,000 to 50,000 residential multi-unit apartments which are home to more than 100,000 people, an expert says.

Prime Minister John Key says he "potentially" supports income-related restrictions on mortgage lending.

ASB is the fourth major bank to impose lending restrictions on foreign home buyers.

Lawrence Watt joins first-home hunters to see how far he can stretch $550,000 in Auckland's suburbs.

The outlook is bleak. The problem may be clear, but there is no one ready to step forward with a solution, writes Bryan Gould.

WATCH: More than 33,000 dwellings are empty as the city grapples with a crisis of affordable housing and homelessness.

Rotorua, Whakatane and Taupo are three new areas to bask in the glow of Auckland's property boom as investors drive up values.

America's Cup yachtsman Sir Russell Coutts and his family have moved into their multi-million-dollar beachfront home.