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An independent fast-track consenting panel has granted resource consent with conditions to a housing development in Ellerslie, Auckland. Auckland Thoroughbred Racing Incorporated and Fletcher Residential Limited applied to subdivide land that is part of Ellerslie ...

Following months of conversation and several tense town hall meetings, the Englewood City Council has decided to no longer pursue two-to-four-unit multifamily buildings in single-family zoning, the city announced Tuesday.

The Hutt City Council has added over 80 new houses to the proposed heritage area on the Petone Foreshore without consulting residents, which the Hutt Voluntary Heritage Group (VHG) says could breach the Local Government Act. The extension was made in ...

Tainui Group Holdings (TGH), the commercial arm of Waikato-Tainui is responding to long-term housing challenges in Hamilton by seeking a rezoning of 68 ha of land near its Ruakura Superhub to ‘residential’. TGH’s application for a private ...

“Landlords are being hit with a double whammy of rising mortgage interest rates and increasing interest deductibility limitations to hit them hard during a cost of living crisis,” says ACT Deputy Leader and Housing spokesperson Brooke van Velden. ...

Leaders from Pasefika, iwi, health, finance, and urban design have been appointed to an independent board of trustees to deliver a transformational Pasefika housing project in Porirua. The Pasefika Housing Trust Board will govern Our Whare Our Fale ...

Counting the homes we have is straightforward, yet counting the number we need is anything but

Building houses on the Ihumātao land appears to be all hui, no action, despite a desperate shortage of housing, says National’s Associate Housing­ spokesperson Tama Potaka. The 32ha block designated as a Special Housing Area was for four years ...

Household net worth, the value of all assets owned by households less the value of all its liabilities, fell $10.3 billion in the December 2022 quarter, according to quarterly figures released by Stats NZ today. The net worth fall of 0.5 percent ...

05 April “Parliament has the ability tonight to support a practical solution to free up infrastructure funding and get houses built for the next generation,” says ACT Deputy Leader and Housing spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “My bill, the Housing ...