A high-profile criminal is accused of master-minding mortgage frauds described as NZ's most complicated, costly and cunning.

House values are climbing back towards last year's levels but the rise may be just temporary, one valuation company says.

ASB's floating home mortgage rate is the cheapest on the market and is thought to be the lowest available to home buyers for decades.

Auckland has enjoyed a huge boom in real estate sales over the past 12 months, says Barfoot & Thompson.

SFO alleges deception involved inflating the purchase price of property.

The biggest problem the tax system faces is that in a globalised era we are taxing all the wrong things.

Real estate figures for July show small price rises and a five per cent jump in the number of sales.

Auckland house prices will rise by almost 30pc in the next three years putting the city ahead of every other region, a study predicts.

First-time homebuyers are being told to set aside suburb snobbery if they want to get on to the property ladder.

For the first time in 18 months, more people think NZ house prices will rise than those expecting a fall, says ASB Bank.

Auckland's biggest real estate firm says the average sale price rose $10,000 in July on the same month last year and look set to stabilise.