Housing

The house had a leaking roof, broken gutters, holes in the floor, rotten window frames and a non-functioning heatpump.

The reduction in the official cash rate is flowing through to the property market.

August has been the month of cuts. Here's how they've stacked up.

The number of households with adult children has grown by more than 100,000 since 2004. Here's why. Audio

Residents of a small Southland hamlet hammered by coastal erosion are living in limbo, as the river next to their properties inches closer.

The government doesn't know where they've gone - but an advocate says it's likely nowhere good.

Explainer - The changes making it harder to get into emergency housing, and harder to stay in.

"It was a little shoebox room. No windows, tiny, but it was under $200, so I was broke, keen, and I took it," one of the flatmates says. Audio

Interest rates will soon get to the level where it makes more sense, research firm says.

As one investor says buyers are waiting in the wings, our biggest bank says more rapid pick-up is possible.

Prices will be flat this year but increase 7 percent next year, bank economist says.

It started with a subdivison in a small alpine village. But when one landowner and his family tried to subdivide it further, a protracted legal battle began,

The rates bill on the property, which is surrounded by state homes, has grown to $317,846.55 and is now the city's longest outstanding debt.

Te Kohekohe will provide 60 homes in an area where accommodation is in desperately short supply.

Residents and business owners on Auckland's Waiheke Island are split on what to make of the island's housing crisis.