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Editorial: National's home plan no silver bullet

Most first-home buyers will find the Government's new plan to ease their burden less compelling than Labour's plan to build 10,000 affordable houses.

Rates payment upgrade two years away

It will be another two years before Auckland Council has a single direct debit system for rates, making life difficult for some ratepayers in the meantime.

Deck battle turns into nightmare

Cross-lease property dispute escalates into costly legal stoush and ruling to demolish illegal structures.

House prices down, sales up

House prices dipped last month, says the Real Estate Institute, but the number of properties changing hands was up more than 10 per cent from the month before.

House dream or nightmare?

A newborn baby and now for the first home - except things are not so straightforward in Auckland's heated property market.

Peter Lyons: Housing policy foundations built on hearsay, prejudice

House price inflation creates no new output and few jobs. It consigns young first-home buyers to a life of debt servitude, writes Peter Lyons.

Heat stays on house prices

Expectations that house prices will rise remain at very high levels last seen in 2003 at the outset of the mid-2000s boom.

Rates a shock for hard-hit Aucklanders

Aucklanders' rates bills have arrived in letterboxes and the figures have come as a shock to some homeowers who have seen rises of 10 per cent.

Asking prices surge to all-time high

Asking prices for houses have skyrocketed to an all-time high in New Zealand.

New mortgage limits will help investors - bank

Brian Rudman: Foreigner ban won't build one new home

It won't create a single new home, which is the crux of the crisis facing the country's two biggest cities, writes Brian Rudman.

Politicians face off over housing

National and Labour have gone head to head over their affordable housing policies as National ministers tried to discredit Labour's new proposal to prevent foreigners buying homes.

Consents hit five-year high

'Mum and Dad' equity for deposits

Westpac has launched a service allowing family members to help first-home buyers into properties.

Trade warning on home buying ban

Plans by the Labour Party to exclude foreign buyers from the housing market have sparked more calls for restrictions and warnings about the risk of damaging the country's relationships with its major trading partners.

Editorial: Foreigner ban just one way to ease house price inflation

Editorial: If foreign restrictions will help first-home seekers - and we should be sure of that first - they could be one of many policy levers used.