Home buyers can expect mortgage interest rates to start rising by the middle of next year and be 3 per cent higher in 18 months, economists say....

Rich investors and entrepreneurs will find it easier to get residency in New Zealand following the Government’s decision to relax the rules. ...

An indicator of the housing market improved to its best reading in two years, as the economy struggled to escape a recession that began at the start of 2008....

Fiscally pressured property owners are losing their homes in bank fire sales because they leave it too late to fight back. ...

Unprecedented numbers of mortgage sales are the result of New Zealanders who over-extended themselves during the property boom by buying multiple investment properties, according to new figures....