The number of homes for sale in New Zealand's three largest cities has fallen to its lowest level in four years, according to data released today by Realestate.co.nz.

Three years ago I signed up with Voxy to write travel stories. Ha, two and a half years and two kids later - there ain' t much travel been going on. So breaking with convention I have decided to write about whats going on in my life - that is being an 'un-yummy mummy'. 

There is good news for landlords across much of the country with rental demand from tenants up 13% on a year ago, according to the latest analysis of Trade Me Property's house rental listings in the three months from October to December.

The QV price indices for December show that New Zealand residential property values continued to gradually increase, rising 2.4% over the past twelve months. Nationwide values are now 3.5% below the previous market peak of late 2007.

New Zealand property values in 2011

The Mental Health Foundation is pleased to be hosting an event with Grand Design's Kevin McCloud in Christchurch today.

Auckland property owners can expect to receive a new Auckland Council property valuation notice in the mail from next Thursday (27 October 2011).

Data released today by the Real Estate Institute of NZ ("REINZ") shows there were 93 more sales (+56.7%) for the three months ended September 2011 than for the three months ended September 2010.

National property values have continued to gradually rise according to the QV residential property index for September.

Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ) data on the New Zealand housing market for September 2011 showed 5,235 unconditional sales for the month, up 912 sales (+21.1%) compared to September last year.

The total capital value of Auckland's real estate is worth $354 billion, following the first Auckland Council revaluation of 516,000 properties region-wide - the largest revaluation ever undertaken in New Zealand.