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Green with envy: Home with golf course

Seaside property in Russell is on the market - complete with its own 18-hole golf course.

Council: Landlords have too much power

Auckland Council says landlords have too much power over tenants and it wants the Government to introduce random auditing of rentals.

House costs raise poverty

Think-tank says today's Kiwis better off than past generation - until housing factored in.

Sudhvir Singh: Don't let the old guard strangle Auckland's future

If we do not see leadership from the council, we will continue to allow an old guard to have a stranglehold over Auckland's future, writes Sudhvir Singh.

Stonewood has 110 unfinished houses

Receivers says unsecured creditors are owed about $15 million and they hope to sell the business.

Editorial: Panel should see late bid to alter city plan

Many residents' groups in Auckland over the years have fought hard against the schemes of city planners for higher-density housing.

90-year-old Remuera house saved

Residents in one of the country's most exclusive streets celebrate court victory that stopped developer's plan to remove $3.1 million house.

59 homes to be bulldozed for highway

Residents say they have been left disgusted, disappointed and frustrated and feel their arguments fell on deaf ears.

Would you pay $100k for $2.5m house?

A $2.5 million Auckland house offered up for only $100,000 had no takers when the sale concluded this week.

3800 new homes backed

Independent commissioners have backed plans to allow more than 3800 new homes next to an exclusive Queenstown development.

Playing housing lottery

Auckland University property researcher Dr Michael Rehm said the figures showed that long-term homeowners in the "hot spots" of Auckland could cash up but people living elsewhere had fewer options.

Is it time to quit high rise plans?

Mayoral candidate Vic Crone says dramatic housing density changes should be withdrawn.

Rezoning casts shadow over property dream

The Kiwi dream of owning a house and section for the kids to run around is fading for Ben Grimer and Anna Macky.

Owners face the bodycorp blues

As the apartment blocks rise so does the call for law reform by a growing band of unhappy owners.

Concerns flood in to apartment probe

Concerns about a lack of pre-purchase disclosure and possible manipulation of proxy votes at body corporate meetings were issues complained about yesterday.

Revolt in the suburbs

Auckland Council wants to move away from the quarter-acre pavlova paradise to offering Aucklanders different types of housing at different points in their lives.