
<i>Bernard Hickey:</i> Housing habits hard to shake
The housing market has started to simmer again.
The housing market has started to simmer again.
There was 7.3pc increase in house listings last month, but a big glut of unsold real estate is still weighing heavily on the market.
Kiwibank has cut its 2 year fixed mortgage rate to 6.59pc, to try and spice up housing demand.
A real estate agent must pay $1500 and undergo ethics training after replacing a private 'for sale' sign with one of his own.
Adri Noom has been told the proposed Puhoi-to-Wellsford highway route runs right through his house near Warkworth.
A real estate agent who bought a $1.27 million home with a complete stranger was a victim of an elaborate property scam and has been left with a $600,000 debt.
A former Auckland Barfoot & Thompson real estate agent has been found guilty of mortgage fraud totalling $13 million.
REINZ has reported 3903 properties were sold last month - the lowest October total since its records started in 1992.