Plea for rental WoF for Dunedin student flats
There are calls for a rental warrant of fitness to ensure student flats in North Dunedin are actually…
Victoria shooting: Two police officers dead, one wounded in rural property incident
He is believed to be a self-proclaimed sovereign citizen. NSW Police on the Albury/Wodonga border are on standby.…
Builder takes thousands, then vanishes
Homeowners are sounding the alarm about a construction company who they say took tens of thousands of dollars…
‘Slum’ Dunedin flats affecting students’ health, studies
Vomit up the walls, buckets of faeces on the lawn and surfaces covered in damp and mould –…
Are banks really passing on the relief from the OCR cuts?
The Reserve Bank have cut the official cash rate by 25 basis points this week — but have…
How much a new home loan borrower is better off with interest rate cuts
A typical new borrower is now about $270 a month better off thanks to drops in interest rates.…
Bigger properties occupied by smaller households in major housing mismatch, Cotality finds
In a reminder of how broken housing affordability and access is, new analysis highlights a major mismatch between…
Fletcher Building reports $419 million full-year loss
Fletcher Building has reported another full year loss, with a number of large one-time costs as well as…
What rate cut is coming today? When will there be more?
Economists are united in their view that the Reserve Bank will cut the Official Cash Rate (OCR) by…
Maps reveal new Auckland housing draft, 15 storeys around rail links
Fifteen-storey apartment towers could soon rise around select Auckland train stations in keeping with new zoning plans councillors…
Govt to rewrite liability provisions in building consents reform
New changes to speed up a “sluggish” consenting system means councils will no longer be left “footing the…
Boarded up homes are sign of a bigger problem in Anfield
People have called for more to be done in the area where they’ve lived all their livesDan Haygarth…