Housing glut: Auckland’s biggest agency has record unsold stock

Housing glut: Auckland’s biggest agency has record unsold stock

Auckland’s largest real estate agency pushed up sales last month but its glut of unsold homes has now hit a record. Barfoot & Thompson’s unsold stock numbers...

House prices and rents reach record highs

The Reserve Bank may have left interest rates on hold today, but its February cut is already flowing through to the housing market in the form of higher home prices. The national median house price has risen back to record levels, at just over $820,000. And while landlords may have seen a reduction in their mortgage repayments, renters are still paying more.

Rents Outstripping Budgets in These Markets - The MortgagePoint

“Renting has many benefits over homeownership, including flexibility and the ability to relocate quickly for career opportunities,” said Matt Hutchinson, SpareRoom Communications Director. “But when budgets fall short of average rents, in some cases by hundreds of dollars per month, those benefits vanish, and renters can end up trapped.”

Rents rises for third month in a row: Goodlord – Mortgage Strategy

The average price of rental property in England was £1,213 during March, marking the third consecutive month for rental growth, the Goodlord Rental Index reveals. The latest data shows that year-on-year this is 4.6% higher than the £1,160 recorded in March last year. Renters that signed new tenancies in March this

Australian house prices continued to rise after a short-term decline, reaching a new record high in March 2025.

This follows from the latest data published by Idealista that show that, at the end of March, renting a house in our country had a cost of 14 euros per metre...