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A tenant who demanded $49,999 from Housing NZ for concreting, building a garage and planting fruit trees at her Auckland state house has had her case dismissed by the Tenancy Tribunal.Diane Tsirakoff's father lived in the rental...

A holiday accommodation booking company has been charged with misleading consumers. Property management and booking company Bachcare is facing two charges under the Fair Trading Act for allegedly misleading consumers by manipulating...

A woman living on a Canterbury farm who claimed her landlord hurt her ducks and complained about noisy roosters and chainsaws has been labelled "frustrating in the extreme".Tenant Jenny Robinson had earlier lodged a Tenancy Tribunal...

It may not be everyone's dream - but train enthusiasts or snow bunnies can hop aboard a cheap ski getaway or rental property for under $300,000.The two iconic red and green train carriages opposite Ōhakune's night life area...

An overseas-owned company behind a subdivision for 117 homes in Auckland has been fined and ordered to sell up after buying the land without permission.The Overseas Investment Office has forced BCH Investments Ltd to sell up illegally...

A massive $6.295 million Waitoki home with a $250,000 Maserati thrown in is likely to be snapped up within the next two weeks.Neighbouring property owners looking to upgrade - and even one considering a downgrade - flocked to yesterday's...

An unlicensed builder has pleaded guilty to 15 charges after misleading property owners and a real estate agency.Mosgiel man Rodney James Day was the first unlicensed builder to be charged since the Licensed Building Practitioners...

A Palmerston North tenant who left cannabis plants in the lounge during an open home viewing for potential buyers of the house has been given the boot.Tenant Anthony Kenneth Murrell had been renting the granny flat of the Fairs...

An Auckland boarding house owner has been fined more than $4200 following complaints from 24 tenants.Robert John Angus failed to lodge bonds for numerous tenants at his Otahuhu boarding house at 25 Moa St, a Tenancy Tribunal adjudicator...

New Zealand and Canada are the most vulnerable economies to a correction in house prices, with Australia and the UK also drawing concern, according to new research from Bloomberg Economics .Seeking to build a "housing bubble dashboard,"...

It's a slice of country paradise complete with a large shed ... and this mansion comes with your choice of Maserati worth up to $250,000. A five-bedroom Waitoki property in the Rodney district, designed by South African architect...

By Eleisha Foon of RNZ Councillors have described the wave of people needing accommodation as "a tsunami", with a more than 10 percent increase in the last six months.A Christchurch mum and her kids found it traumatic dealing...

In Queenstown a portfolio of four freehold retail units within large new development projects, has been placed on the market as tenanted investment properties.Located in Queenstown itself, and immediately adjacent to Queenstown's...

Savills says Hornby is retaining its status as the pre-eminent location for industrial property occupiers in Christchurch, with demand trends and development activity demonstrating the ongoing strength of the suburb's property market.Mitchell...

It's an exciting and transformational time for chartered surveyors in the construction sector, says Chris Nicholl, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) managing director for Australasia, Japan and Southeast Asia.Nicholl...

A third floor unit within an established property in Grey Lynn has come on to the market offering a number of potential options as to its use.JLL's city and fringes sales broker Jason Armstrong says the property is part of a Mixed...

Land and buildings housing a trio of modern well-established suburban early childhood care centres in Browns Bay, Henderson and Glenfield have been placed on the market.The three independent-owned suburban Auckland's properties...

A new tranche of six warehouse-office buildings at Hamilton's Te Rapa Gateway industrial park is for lease off the plans through Alex Ten Hove and Anne-Marie Brown of Bayleys Hamilton.The units range in size from 292sq m of warehouse...

A food processing, retail and workshop property is for sale in Napier's mixed-used seaside suburb of Ahuriri.Bayleys' Napier salespeople Sam MacDonald and Mark Evans are marketing 7 Tangaroa St for sale by private treaty closing...

The only Commercially zoned land and business, sustaining one of the last remaining caravan park accommodation facilities near Auckland city, have been placed on the market in the West Coast seaside township of Muriwai.The Muriwai...