Property
House sales up at top end
Demand for Queenstown properties worth more than $1 million increased in April.
Twenty properties for auction
Wanaka cottage sells for $1.1m
Rural property sales growth strong
Residential property sales improve
North Otago residential property sales last month continued to improve, compared with the same month last year, building on trends of a slow recovery.
Families will pay extra for backyards and good schools
New Zealanders want safe backyards for their children and access to good schools - and will pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for them.
Auckland replaces region as least affordable
The fact Auckland has replaced the Central Otago and Queenstown Lakes districts as the least affordable region to buy a house is "a positive", a Central Otago Lakes real estate spokesman said.
Residential property values rising
New Zealand residential property in 2011 continued to claw back value, according to December sales figures released on Wednesday by Government valuer Quotable Value.
NZ houses 'overpriced by 25%'
New Zealand homes are overvalued by 25 per cent and the country is one of nine under threat of a housing bubble burst, says the Economist.