Housing
How to best prepare your home for heavy rainfall
Flood specialists are urging households to consider what simple and low-cost steps they could take to limit damage to their home from extreme rainfall. Climate change correspondent Kate Newton… Audio
The towns that just clocked up their first $2m house sales
There are still plenty of regions where sales are yet to crack the barrier.
Some Aucklanders 'very wound up' over housing intensification plans
The council would be asking the government to allow more housing density within 10km of the city.
Auckland mayor wants to push ahead with intensification despite mixed reviews
Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown wants to push ahead with intensification in inner-city suburbs, whether residents like it or not. Last month, the government agreed to reduce Auckland's minimum housing… Audio
New Zealand's hidden $27 billion home maintenance bill
About 90% of homes around the country are in need of immediate maintenance, research has found. Audio
Where are the country's most - and least - affordable houses?
Affordability is at the best level in almost a decade, but the effect is not being felt evenly.
Intensification is coming, mayor tells leafy suburbs after 'long, painful' meeting
"It will end up with a city which looks like a city, not the world's largest suburb," Wayne Brown says. Audio
'It's my kids that I worry about': The 800-day wait for home
One provider says there are "horrendous" wait times for the programme which helps chronically homeless people into housing in Northland. Audio
Fiery debate as councillors revisit housing rules
Auckland councillors are cracking on with implementing the government's changes to the city's housing intensification plan. Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss. Audio
Northland rough sleepers waiting 800 days for a home
Rough sleepers in Northland are typically waiting more than 800 days for a home through the Housing First programme. Lauren Crimp reports. Audio
'It's quite deceptive': The rise of property flippers
One of the country's most prominent buyers' agencies has complained to the Real Estate Authority about "property flippers" making six-figures from unwitting vendors.
Local government minister can't guarantee rates cap won't increase social housing rents
Simon Watts said the final rates cap policy is still being designed, but didn't anticipate it would cause higher costs for those living in roughly 10,000 council-owned rental homes.
Housing insecurity numbers double in Queenstown
The amount of people experiencing housing insecurity in Queenstown has doubled over the last year, a council survey has found. Victoria Crockford from End Women's Homelessness spoke to Corin Dann. Audio
Queenstown district’s rise in homelessness
Friends' homes, couches, cars and tents - that's where one in ten Queenstown Lakes locals have had to spend at least one night in the past year. Otago Southland reporter Katie Todd reports. Audio
Tenancy Tribunal backs landlord's termination of unsafe Auckland rental
The man rented the Auckland home he had inherited from his mother to a couple, after they approached him "desperate for a place to live".
The Detail: Is the Kiwi landlord mentality dying?
New Zealanders finally seem to be dialling down their obsession with owning houses to create wealth.
The great property breakup
New Zealanders finally seem to be dialling down their obsession with owning houses to create wealth Audio
Private rentals being used to house rough sleepers
Organisations helping house rough sleepers are relying on private landlords to open their doors. Lauren Crimp reports. Audio
Demand for high-end homes may outstrip supply
Demand may outstrip housing supply when it comes to the wealthy foreign investors keen to come to New Zealand under the so-called golden visa. Sarah Wood, chief executive of realestate.co.nz spoke to… Audio
Private landlords needed to help house rough sleepers
With the government limiting further social housing builds, Housing First providers are eyeing up market rentals - but the perfect properties, and owners, are hard to find.
