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Ministerial home sale raises $3m

A sell-off of ministerial homes has raised more than $3m, but more valuable remaining properties worth about $18 million are unlikely to be put on the market.

Housing: 'No quick fixes'

Government to place a six-month time limit on processing consents for medium-size projects including housing developments as part of push to make homes affordable.

Small business: Own or rent? Van Dyck Fine Foods

Govt to open up more land for houses

Prime Minister John Key says fast-tracking the supply of land will help solve the housing affordability crisis.

Can the Govt create lower house prices?

Small business: Own or rent? Wild Wheat bakery

Distance makes $650k go further

Interiors: Back to front

Restrictions on what could be changed on their house, meant one Auckland family had to think outside the box on renovations.

Crisis demands mass demolition

Up to 80,000 Auckland homes have to be demolished and replaced with townhouses and apartments to create the world's most liveable city, says a housing expert.

Philip Macalister: Investors right to claim tax benefits but wrong to rort system

Stay-at-homes get wraparound

Review of red-zoned Port Hills properties detailed

House prices rise only 1.8pc in last quarter

Quake exiles look north

Cantabrians are setting their sights on Hamilton's housing market as they look to spend their newly received insurance payouts from damaged properties.

Beachside plan questioned

From 'Narnia' to wasteland

It took two days last week to flatten a gully full of native and exotic trees in Auckland's Westmere into a "nuclear wasteland", angering residents.

Fix-it option for leaky homes

Auckland Council's top building official says wide-scale demolition of rotting townhouse units might be the best solution - but many properties can be fixed.

Brokers in the cold