Housing Minister and Wigram MP Megan Woods says Budget 2022 will help more people get onto the property ladder by funding about 7000 extra first home grants and 2500 more first home loans every year.
A Christchurch couple ordered to pay $40k after a child living at their "uninhabitable" and "unsanitary" property contracted rheumatic heart disease may face further legal action after failing to hand over a single cent.
A landlord has won the upper-end of compensation after two meth-using tenants left a trail of destruction to her property and were ruled to have abandoned the home early.
One of the South Island's most spectacular homesteads - with its eight bedrooms, two kitchens, snooker room, large parlours and a colourful past - will be restored to its full glory.