COMMENT: You don't expect to find traces of meth when you are buying from the Crown, writes David Rowe.

Couple's home renovation dreams shattered after their house tests positive for methamphetamine contamination.

Cancel the gym membership - an expansive property overlooking the Waikato River includes its own gymnasium, covered swimming pool and sauna.

Young Aucklanders with dreams of buying a first home should look to other parts of the regions for a property.

Only 14 per cent of young house-hunters in Auckland expect they'll get on the property ladder within two years.

The Leighton St house transformed from hovel to high-end "sophisticated elegance" goes under the hammer at 6pm on Tuesday.

Barely one in three young Aucklanders believe they will ever own their own home, with many resigned to a lifetime of renting.

COMMENT: IRD excels at finding evaders, who can face huge bills, writes Diana Clement.

Hundreds of state houses are testing positive for methamphetamine contamination, but information on suspected properties shows that could get worse.

COMMENT: Despite New Zealand's home-buying culture, not everyone needs a Hummer home, writes Diana Clement.

One of the most expensive properties in Hamilton bought by Auckland CEO, who plans to commute.

Yong Xin Chen ditched her leasehold Cornwall Park house after her annual rent increased from $8300 to $73,750.

The Serious Fraud Office is investigating a property development company that built two central Auckland apartments.

Auckland villa sold for $1.35 million - $190,000 over the reserve - just three months ago.

House dubbed NZ's most unique property passes in at auction.

Self-employed tenants are a landlord's biggest risk after a law change making it easier to deduct unpaid rent from an employee's wages, an expert says.

About 300 people held hands in Mangere today in a bid to stop a housing project on what an archaeologist described as "the paddock next to Stonehenge".

A family is suing their former landlord for $50,000 after discovering the house they lived in for more than three years was contaminated with P.

House prices and turnover rose in February from a year earlier as Auckland's cooling property market stoked interest across the rest of the country.

Three banks say they will pass on only part of the surprise official cash rate cut made by the Reserve Bank.

Wheeler's surprise move at odds with the way he was talking a few weeks ago, write Liam Dann.

One of Auckland's first two multi-storey state housing blocks has been sold to Auckland University to help meet a desperate shortage of student accommodation.

There must be some irony in council chief executive Stephen Town floating the idea of an independent consensus group to help resolve divisions over housing density in Auckland.

WATCH: Fran O'Sullivan, Brian Gaynor and Liam Dann dissect the surprising rate cut and what it means for house prices.

Adult entertainment and property investors strike deal for troubled builders.

The popular Ponsonby Central food and retail precinct is placing the future of four neighbouring villas in doubt.

Luxury five-bedroom Waiheke Island house will be burned to the ground this weekend.

Police are investigating an incident at the Anthem vineyard estate involving bankrupt developer Dave Henderson and former All Black Grahame Thorne.

Which suburbs now have a median house price of more than a million dollars?

Wealthy American golfers are desperate to snap up a piece of Pacific coastline - even if it's 13 hours from California.