With prices soaring, many fear they will never be able to buy. Others will try anything as the crisis threatens to define a generation
On finding herself shut out of the property market, Nicole Thorburn looked for a side door.
At 29, Thorburn had been living with her parents for seven years to save for a deposit on her first home in Thames, a small town on the Coromandel Peninsula south-east of Auckland – but the pandemic has sent already buoyant prices skyrocketing.
