Online descriptions of houses to rent are reaching remarkable heights, prompting questions about truth in advertising, and whether the law is being broken.

New clamp-downs on residential property investors appear to be working.

A mortgage fraudster has been sentenced to three years and two months in jail for his part in a $33 million swindle.

ANZ has announced an assistance package for customers impacted by the 7.5 magnitude earthquake on Monday night.

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The official cash rate cut won't be passed on to mortgage holders at major banks across New Zealand.

With the average Auckland house is valued at over $1 million Kiwis are beginning to feel dejected, a new ASB survey reveals.

The squeeze is being put on home loan borrowers as a second major bank lifts its fixed term mortgage rate.

Home loan borrowers look set to face higher fixed-term mortgage rates despite a predicted cut to the official cash rate this week.

A pair of best friends who split at $12.3 million Big Wednesday win last year have some advice for tonight's potential jackpot winner.

BNZ boss Anthony Healy says mortgage holders should not expect predicted cuts to the official cash rate to flow through to home loan

An Auckland man has admitted his part in a mortgage fraud, pleading guilty to 16 charges of obtaining by deception.

New data shows nearly 90 per cent of all personal debt in New Zealand is tied up in property.

Financial adviser Hannah McQueen answered your money questions in a live chat.

Labour has renewed calls to ban foreigners buying New Zealand houses.

A lawyer says foreigners buy 29 per cent of New Zealand properties, not 3 per cent as reported in official state data.

The number of home loans and amount being borrowed has dipped ahead of further lending restrictions, but one mortgage broker says

Some customers of the BNZ have received incorrect messages from the bank telling them their accounts are thousands of dollars in the red.

Overseas residents bought 1749 out of the 57,678 homes sold in New Zealand between April and June, newly-released data shows.

New lending restrictions for property investors will make it harder for small-business owners to access capital.

All four big banks are now applying new lending restrictions to home loans - six weeks ahead of the Reserve Bank's official September deadline.

Labour leader Andrew Little set out the affordable housing policy at a speech in New Lynn this afternoon.

Reserve Bank says Government should consider reviewing it immigration policy, as migrants were driving up housing demand.

A deep analysis of mortgage registrations has revealed which areas of NZ are the most and least leveraged, and which bank is winning the cut-throat mortgage war.

When the police raided the Auckland home of fraudster Eli Devoy, they found a "veritable Aladdin's cave of compromising material".

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Eli Devoy faces jail over fraudulent scheme involving 11 Auckland properties.

An interest-only mortgage allows the borrower to pay just the interest on their loan, but could there be some big hidden risks?

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A week ago, when the Budget had delivered no answers to the hyperinflation of house prices, the PM told us to wait for a National Policy Statement.