Tauranga house sales show steady increase
A resurgence in house sales in Tauranga has flowed into the new year. Latest New Zealand Real Estate Institute (REINZ) figures show 93 homes changed hands in two-thirds of the city last month, a 41 per cent increase on the sales in January last year. Over the past six months the sales volume, more than 90 each month, has been consistently above...
Future of city skyline uncertain
The future look of Tauranga CBD is uncertain as more than 100 building owners are faced with carrying out major strengthening work to meet safety requirements.
Insurance shocks hit homeowners
Insurance bills received in the in the post are showing average increases of up to 30 per cent.
Chiefs are cautiously optimistic
Most chief executives of the major commercial and industrial property real estate agencies are quietly optimistic
Houses cheaper - but still at New York levels
Yesterday, the Real Estate Institute announced that November's nationwide $367,500 median and 6008 sales slid to $355,000 and just 5312 sales in December.
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Home affordability improving in Bay of Plenty
Home affordability continues to improve in the Bay, giving prospective first-time buyers more hope of owning their own house.
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Better times for Bay firms in 2012
Business Editor Graham Skellern checked out the new year resolutions of local business leaders and asked them how they thought 2012 would pan out.
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Home owners make most of demand
Home owners in Mount Maunganui and Papamoa are making thousands of dollars a week this summer by letting out their houses to holiday-makers.
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Battle for rentals at Mount heats up
The rental market has become a hotly contested battlefield in recent weeks, with a glut of house seekers fighting it out for too few rental properties.
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Home truths for housing plan
Tauranga's Vanessa Byrnes and her partner Warren Tully looked at buying an Auckland house for months, but they struck many hurdles.
Port of Tauranga denies talk of...
The Port of Tauranga has labelled union claims of fearful workers an attempt to paint the Tauranga port in a bad light against its Auckland counterpart.
- Fans thrilled to see Pinetree as well as Cup
- Big changes for Tauranga car parking
- Too much of a good kiwifruit
- House costs to fall as fees slashed
400 Tauranga intersections to be revamped
About 400 intersections in Tauranga are scheduled for change as the Tauranga City Council prepares the streets for the country's new give way rules.
- Refugees bound by memories of quake horror
- Paeroa top community
- Bereaved devastated by hospital experience
- Woman was covertly filmed having shower
Special round for McDonald
Something will be missing when old-time pro Bob McDonald tees it up in the $10,000 A1 Homes/IBM Legends golf pro-am tomorrow at Omanu.
- Motorsport: Cody Cooper aiming higher
- Olympic pair lift national 470 crown
- Board victory was a long time coming
- Kayaking: Son keen to follow in Dad's wake
Benefits for all entrants in awards
Brady Mitchell went into farming only because he needed somewhere to house his pig dogs.
- Psa infections dramatically up
- Teaming up to reduce the work toll
- Global volatility continues into 2012
- Big spray dryer key for value
