08Jul

Kiwis cutting back on heating to save

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Consumer NZ reports 38 per cent have their homes colder than they would like as they try to keep power bills down. By Vaimoana Tapaleao Power prices are an ongoing worry for many people, who hold back heating their homes in a bid to cut down on the power bill, a survey shows. Figures from […]

07Dec

Bernard Hickey: Poverty trap awaits retiring tenants

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This week’s Salvation Army report into housing baby-boomers in retirement exposed the deepest fault-line in New Zealand society and its economy – home ownership. The report’s author, Alan Johnson, recited the facts we all knew about the fall in home ownership from a high of 74 per cent in 1991 to a 60-year low of […]

11Nov

World’s best new building – Singapore’s “vertical village”

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A cluster of 31 apartment blocks stacked on their sides has won this year’s world building of the year title. Instead of dense high-rise apartment living, the architect behind The Interlace opted for apartment blocks each only six storeys high, but bundled together in piles of four. The innovative residential development in Singapore, designed by […]

09Nov

Iwi’s plans for North Shore housing land

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Ngati Whatua soon to announce intensive housing proposal on North Shore holdings. By Anne Gibson Ngati Whatua is poised to announce a huge redevelopment of part of its North Shore land holdings, capable of taking hundreds of new residences. Its plans for five streets of housing in the Belmont/Bayswater/Hauraki areas between Takapuna and Devonport are […]

08Nov

Housing accord has been a flop

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Auckland, Governments, Houses, New Zealand, Population, Wellington

It is disappointing, though no surprise, that after two years the Government’s “housing accord” with the Auckland Council has produced just 102 houses (of which it knows) in areas designated for faster building consents. When the accord was signed in October 2013, Auckland needed 39,000 houses in three years. This is the rate of building […]

08Nov

How your neighborhood will change by 2038

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Auckland, Buying a Houses, Construction, Houses, migrants, New Zealand, Real Estate, University, Wellington

New Zealand is becoming a super diverse nation, but its diversity story is a stratified one – drawn along ethnic and economic lines. Herald Insights, a new data journalism site on nzherald.co.nz, is launched today and an interactive allows readers to explore projections of ethnic makeups in Auckland neighbourhoods and every territorial authority in the […]