Which home is right for me?
Five quick questions on budget, bedrooms, outdoor space, commute and what matters most. Get the type of home most likely to suit you.
Find your ideal homeEverything you know about a property, in one place.
You've already found homes worth a closer look. OurHouse is where New Zealand buyers organise the research that follows. Ratings, notes, photos, and side-by-side comparison. So nothing gets lost between an open home and a decision.
Free to start · No credit card required
How it works
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Find a home worth a closer look
Discover it wherever you already look: a listing site, an open home, a tip from a friend.
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Add it to a watchlist
Save it alongside the others you're weighing up, with your own ratings, notes and photos attached.
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Research, compare, decide
School zones, commute times, hazard data and mortgage rates sit next to your own impressions: so the decision is yours, made with everything in view.
Work out your next move, before you commit to anything
Four quick tools for the questions that come before you buy, sell or wait. Each one gives you a result straight away, and you can save or print it. What you enter stays in your browser and is never sent to OurHouse.
Your property journey
Tell us where you are, from just exploring to ready to move. Get a next-step plan, in order, with the right tool for each step.
Get my next stepsBuy, sell or wait?
Compare buying now, selling first and waiting, using your savings, equity, timeline and view of the market.
Compare my optionsFree property readiness report
Answer a few questions as a buyer or a seller and get a report with the actions to take, rough costs and resources. Save it or print it as a PDF.
Get my reportWhat you get
Know when something changes.
A price drop, a status change, a new open home. Tracked properties notify you the moment something on your watchlist moves.
- Price and status change alerts
- Sold price and agent update history
- Upcoming open home reminders
Get the process straight before you buy.
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How to buy a house in New Zealand
Budget, search, offer, conditions and settlement, step by step, with what to do at each one.
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The OCR explained: what it is and how it reaches your mortgage
What the Official Cash Rate is, how the Reserve Bank uses it, and why floating and fixed mortgage rates don't follow it in the same way.
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Unit titles and apartments: body corporates, levies and what to ask for
How a unit title development is run, the difference between ordinary and special levies, and the body corporate records to read before you make an offer.
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Compare what actually matters.
Bedrooms are the easy part. See liveability, commute time, heating, insulation and more, side by side, for every home you're weighing up.
- Your own rating for every property
- Hazard, school zone and transport data in one place
- Notes and photos attached to what you saw
Start your first watchlist.
Free to get started. Organise the homes you're already considering in one calm place.
No credit card required