Labour will work with Queenstown-Lakes District Council, iwi, and the Community Housing Trust to build the modern, affordable housing Queenstown desperately needs, says Leader of the Opposition Andrew Little.

A Bill which provides better protections and clarity for tenants and landlords has passed its First Reading in Parliament 105-14, Building and Construction Minister Dr Nick Smith says.

Tommy’s Real Estate, Wellington’s leading real estate agency, says that despite reports that the Wellington housing market was running out of steam, Tommy’s signed 76 sales during June.

"The NZ Property Investors' Federation is very pleased to see the release of the NZ Standard for meth contamination today" said Andrew King, executive officer

First National Real Estate Chief Executive, Bob Brereton, says an Americas Cup win would lead to a massive and sustained period of development on the Auckland waterfront and believes that the city would move quickly to gear up accommodation and infrastructure.

Legislation enabling a housing development at Point England and progress on Ngāti Paoa’s historical Treaty settlement has passed its second reading by 62-43, Building and Construction Minister Dr Nick Smith says.

A new approach to measuring housing affordability will provide important information to support Government and other stakeholder decisions on housing, MBIE Deputy Chief Executive Building, Resources and Markets, Chris Bunny said today when releasing the Housing Affordability Measure.

Tommy’s Real Estate, Wellington’s leading real estate agency, signed sales of 111 properties in the Capital in March, up on the 99 sales achieved in February.

From tonight Accessible Properties will take over the ownership and management of more than 1100 homes from Housing New Zealand in the Tauranga area.

A new initiative aimed at ending chronic homelessness in Auckland has officially kicked off.

The median weekly rent for a typical New Zealand house hit $500 for the first time ever in February, meaning the annual cost for tenants is now $26,000 a year, according to the latest Trade Me Property Rental Price Index.

Thirty-eight percent of those disabled people in rented homes said they have difficulty heating, Stats NZ said today.

AVJennings announced today that it is now underway with the construction on the site of the 12.5 hectare Buckley B Precinct at Hobsonville Point, a project that will see the company deliver 114 of the 383 homes as affordable housing.

The value of building activity rose a seasonally adjusted 3.5 percent in the December 2016 quarter, Statistics New Zealand said today. Most of this rise was in Auckland, where residential building work rose 4.5 percent, and non-residential rose 17 percent.

Wellington is making good progress against its annual targets for new building consents, with 1204 new dwellings or sections consented in the last six months - well over half the 1500 targeted for the year.

Century 21 New Zealand says its number of residential listings nationwide is up a staggering 35.92% compared to the same day last year.

A $190m 225-home lifestyle development has been announced to local business leaders in Queenstown by Singaporean-based developers GYP Properties Pte Ltd.

Some of Wellington’s most vulnerable will benefit from a new emergency housing service now open thanks to the Government’s backing, Social Housing Minister Amy Adams says.

Housing Minister Nick Smith is already backtracking on Bill English’s suggestion he’d provide 69,000 homes in Auckland, as house prices continue to skyrocket across the country, the Green Party said today.

Century 21 New Zealand has recently re-launched its office in Turangi, buoyed by the growing popularity of the riverside town just south of Lake Taupo.

Revitalisation of Porirua’s city centre has been given boost with plans for the city’s first residential apartments - in the former NZ Post building in Serlby Place and an exciting modular apartment development in Station Road.

Over the last quarter of 2016 housing affordability across New Zealand declined by 2.8 per cent, with big declines in some provincial regions. The latest Massey University Home Affordability Report shows further declines in affordability across New Zealand in the final quarter of 2016.

Data released today by the Real Estate Institute of NZ ("REINZ") shows there were 86 fewer lifestyle property sales (-3.8%) for the three months ended December 2016 than for the three months ended December 2015.

The number of new homes consented reached an 11-year high in the month of November, Statistics New Zealand said today. This was due to increased consents in Auckland and the usual pre-Christmas rush.

Residential property - particularly in Auckland - is in for another year of strong growth according to Property Institute of New Zealand Chief Executive, Ashley Church.

The new Tauranga Housing Accord has been signed by Tauranga City Mayor Greg Brownless and Minister for Building and Construction Dr Nick Smith.

The volume of residential building work rose 2.4 percent in the September 2016 quarter, Statistics New Zealand said today. This rise followed 5.7 and 5.6 percent increases in the June and March quarters, respectively.

Land suitable for 60 apartments on the Te Atatu Peninsula is the latest addition to the Crown Land Programme, Building and Housing Minister Dr Nick Smith says.

A new social housing complex of 120 apartments is to be built on surplus Crown land and an adjoining Housing New Zealand site in Auckland in partnership with local iwi, Ministers Paula Bennett and Nick Smith have announced.

Just four townhouses offering a luxury living experience remain for sale in Alexandra Park’s celebrated urban village development currently under construction on Greenlane West, Epsom.