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<i>Bernard Hickey:</i> Housing habits hard to shake

The housing market has started to simmer again.

Richlisters up for Govt bailout

Taxpayers could be paying as much as $178 million to bail out a failed finance company owned by one of NZ's wealthiest families.

Reserve Bank boss defends rate rises

Govt-guaranteed firm goes into receivership

Household spending up 6.1pc, income up 11.5pc in 3 years

<i>Inside Money:</i> Shadow on the wall (chart)

Kiwibank cuts rates to spark quiet property market

Kiwibank has cut its 2 year fixed mortgage rate to 6.59pc, to try and spice up housing demand.

Tax cuts make homes more affordable

Gripes to bank ombudsman at record high

$572pw: Auckland's mortgages soar

Homes are at their most affordable in six years - apart from in Auckland, where the average weekly mortgage is more than $570 a week.

Home loan affordability improves

<i>Alasdair Thompson:</i> Sea change needed for new decade of low growth

<i>Diana Clement</i>: Change your ways for fee free banking

Debt addicted Kiwis buckling down, says English

Start buying houses, says Kiwibank boss

New Kiwibank head Paul Brock is urging potential first home buyers not to be spooked and to go out and buy, so long as they can afford to.

The great American mortgage crisis deepens

After the Subprime Mortgage Mess, the US Foreclosure Fiasco.

<i>Andrew Hooker:</i> How insurers accuse customers of dishonesty

You might be surprised how often insurance companies call their customers liars, fraudsters or criminals, and the flimsy basis on which they sometimes do so.

<i>Mary Holm</i>: Bailout unlikely if scheme folds