The number of properties sold across New Zealand in July fell by 24.5% year on year, the lowest number of transactions since August 2014, the latest index shows. The figures from the Real Estate ...

The island nation of New Zealand has emerged as an unlikely real estate and investment hub for U.S. billionaires looking for palatial estates, and, according to some reports, a sense of security amid ...

Overseas buyers will no longer be allowed to purchase existing homes in New Zealand, Prime Minister-elect Jacinda Ardern said Tuesday, as she unveiled a raft of policy deals made with her coalition ...

Some people buy houses. Some people buy apartments. Some people, perhaps, buy an entire abandoned town in New Zealand. Lake Waitaki Village, located on the South Island about 180 km (112 miles) north ...

This sleek estate on New Zealand’s South Island doesn’t make you choose between mountain or river views. Set against the picturesque Shotover River and surrounded by striking alpine ranges, you get ...

The New Zealand government has banned the sale of existing homes to foreign buyers, saying New Zealanders were sick of being "tenants in our own land". Associate minister of finance, David Parker, ...

In April, New Zealand’s government found itself in a bind. It had just relaunched its golden visa program, offering wealthy foreigners residency in exchange for a minimum NZ$5 million ($3 million) ...

A unique, glass-walled spinning house is on the market in New Zealand for $665,000. Known as "the Lighthouse," it has been engineered to turn 360 degrees on its central axis. The three-bedroom ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In June last year, Jim Ribbans finished building his first home in Queenstown, New Zealand’s best-known ski ...

New Zealand’s house prices have become “ridiculously expensive”, according to a major new report. The just-released 2020 Demographia survey, which compares median house prices to median household ...

The Residential Land Withholding Tax (RLWT) is the third part of the Government’s investment property tax reforms announced as part of its Budget 2015. It will come into force on 01 July 2016 under a ...