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Nicola Martin
Return of the bear pits? How first-home buyers can beat the auction competition in 2025
Top tips for buyers worried about a return to the post-Covid frenzy.
Kelvin Davidson
NZ in recession - expect a 0.5% cut in interest rates in February
The five things you need to know about the housing market this week.
Nicola Martin
NZ’s most affordable beaches: Where to get a bach for less than $500,000
Be prepared to go remote and get creative.
Nicola Martin
Is the pain worth it? An extra $60 a week could wipe $125,000 off your mortgage
“For many Kiwis, it’s still about survival right now.”
Diana Clement
Church elder’s dying wish fulfilled as iconic estate sells to loving family
Catherine Masters
Brokenwood Mysteries trophy home has a $5m-plus price tag
Diana Clement
City slickers buy log cabin given $3m upgrade by Yogi Bear’s builder
Donna Fleming
From hawking fruit out of a van to selling $260m of property in NZ’s wealthiest beach town
Nikki Preston
‘Do not enter’: Ex-police house contaminated by asbestos up for grabs
The property had been taken over by squatters.
Diana Clement
New Plymouth home is jam-packed with paintings - ‘pretty much everything has a story’
Vendor wasn’t allowed anything on the walls as a child. She’s more than made up for that.
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Nikki Preston
Animal lover's house sells for $695,000 - and all the money goes to the dogs
Proceeds of the sale will be used to train seven pups as service dogs.
Nikki Preston
Kāinga Ora axes 60% of social housing projects planned for 2025
The developments the agency have put on ice would have provided 1019 homes.
Diana Clement
‘You fullas must have won the lottery’ - Couple opens the doors to their iconic castle
Roger Walker-designed home in Lower Hutt up for grabs.
Tony Alexander
Tony Alexander: An abrupt end to falling interest rates in 2025
The outlook for next year may be disappointing for some.
Nikki Preston
Unsaleable home scores extra $105,000 after renovation brings it back from the dead
Nikki Preston
‘Some of them will be selling at a loss’ - market flooded with townhouses
Amy Houlihan
Family who lost their home in the floods catch a break after worst start ever
Catherine Masters
‘Hidden’ compound snapped up by Auckland family after getting $13.25m price tag
Nikki Preston
Watercare ‘blindsides’ Auckland developers - ‘people will go under’
Plans for new housing halted following release of new map.
Catherine Smith
Vogue comes to West Auckland: Couple turned New Lynn home over to who’s who of NZ art
Bungalow hits the market with studios that have been used by leading artists and photographers.
Kelvin Davidson
My house price hunch: Why 2025 could be the ‘year of conflicting forces’
The five things you need to know about the housing market this week.
Catherine Masters
Buyers and vendor in tears after miner’s cottage sells for ‘ridiculously cheap’ price
The home was “chock-full” of antiques.
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Catherine Masters
‘We’ve had quite a few kamikaze buyers’ - Agent blows his boom tally out of the water
Diego Traglia says sales hit an all-time high last month thanks to falling interest rates.
Ed McKnight
Revealed: Banks put the brakes on ‘secret’ mortgage rate discounts
Four behind-the-scenes changes that will hit borrowers hard.
Catherine Smith
Award-winning home next to billionaire's mansion snapped up for secret sum
Striking waterfront pad has a CV of $10m.
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Future optimistic for rural property buyers and sellers
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Nikki Preston
24 nerve-wracking hours! Homeowners avoid financial ruin with $866,000 sale
Agent celebrates one-day auction success by shouting team KFC.
Nikki Preston
Heavenly Creatures bach for sale - ‘my husband liked to say Kate Winslet was in his bed’
Waterfront home linked to notorious Parker-Hulme murder case hosted Sir Peter Jackson and his stars 30 years ago.
Diana Clement
Renovated Matamata home with Japanese design touches hits market with $780,000 RV
Auckland buyers show interest in mid-century classic.
