The new Govt wants to move responsibility for problems away from local council building inspectors – but that assumes any insurance firm will take on the risk
Housing
Posted inSustainable Future
Building state houses to be ready for the floods to come
A research project explores how public housing on NZ’s most densely populated flood plain can be more resilient
Posted inHousing
Tumbledown cottage that bust reserve by half a million
Vendors willing to live dangerously have picked the bottom of the housing market, and made handsome profits
Posted inGovernment, Housing, Infrastructure, Newsroom Pro
Power gentailers' dominance helps consign 300,000 people to energy hardship – report
Commerce Commission should investigate lack of competition driving up electricity prices – chair
Posted inHousing
Migrants and change of government drive sharp forecast rise in house prices
Returning first home buyers face 'horribly unaffordable' prices
Posted inAuckland, Housing, Newsroom Pro
‘Huge impact on the community’: Karekare left in the long-term dark
Uncertainty abounds on the west coast, where post-cyclone land instability puts whole communities in doubt
Posted inHousing
$10m clifftop mansion first to fall as Reserve Bank warns of mortgagee sales
Banks get ready to impose debt-to-income borrowing limits to protect homebuyers as interest rates and mortgagee sale numbers rise
Posted inPodcast: The Detail
Convenient cities become conspiracy targets
How did a vision to make cities more people-friendly become twisted into a dystopian plot?
Posted inHousing
Don't let politicians off the hook with talk of 'unprecedented' events
Why didn’t we learn from Hawkes Bay earthquake? From Canterbury? From Kaikōura?
Posted inClimate Change, Corporate, Featured, Foreign Affairs, Government, Housing, Infrastructure, News, Newsroom Pro, Politics, Transport
A new-look government
Ahead of special votes being delivered, Newsroom looks at which portfolios various MPs might get
Posted inEconomy
Elderly Māori hard-hit by rising costs as they refinance to help whānau
Call for government help for communities worst affected by rising food prices and interest rates
Posted inHousing
Back-channels shift sands on which National’s property and tax package is built
Christopher Luxon faces staunch opposition from NZ First to lifting the foreign buyer ban
