Watch NZH Focus: Up to 75 per cent of Auckland properties going under the hammer are failing to sell.

A house in Spain has been crowned as the world's best house after it won House of the Year at 2016's World Architecture Festival.

More charges against the accused in the final failed finance company case have been dropped after a blowout in the length of the trial.

Super-investor Ron Hoy Fong discloses how his students get into property by using their parents' house and help.

New Zealanders have leapfrogged Brits, Singaporians and Belgians to become the fifth wealthiest people in the world, according to a major new study.

The corporate community fears it has lost the public debate over tax avoidance and a legislative crackdown is imminent.

WATCH: Demolition of Auckland's Downtown shopping centre is finishing and construction on the $850 million Commercial Bay is beginning.

Auckland households earning over $104,950 are cut out of new affordable housing developments.

Credit card spending in October increased on last year as New Zealand enters the holiday spending season, new data from the Reserve Bank shows.

An multi-millionaire landlord says New Zealand homeowners lack financial knowledge.

COMMENT: Unbridled bank lending is the driving force behind house price growth, Michael Rehm writes.

Prime Minister John Key took on Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg about the company's tax reputation internationally - and Zuckerberg did not click "like".

COMMENT: If your house burns down and the insurance company doesn't pay, it's likely to affect you financially for much of the rest of your life.

COMMENT: Figures suggest NZ real estate prices are well out of line.

Large companies need to "rebuild the trust of the public" by being more open about tax arrangements, the IRD says.

The kiwi fell against a resurgent greenback after Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen said the case has grown for a hike in US interest rates.

Buyers of a big Takapuna apartment project replacing The Block homes are the latest off-the-plan purchasers to be asked to pay more for units.

An Auckland apartment buyer now faces forking out $1 million for a unit he had agreed to buy for $775,000.

One of Auckland's biggest inner-city apartment projects has been hit with funding issues and buyers have been asked to fork out more.

This guy was fed-up with paying tax, so he found a bit of empty land and created his own country. There's just one little problem.

IAG, Tower expect claim inquiries to mount

by David Porter[Temp photo until David finds some real people] Mount Maunganui and Papamoa Ray White Realty Focus franchise owner

This exclusive Australian precinct is already up to 80 per cent foreign owned and mostly by Chinese investors.

Coming from a privileged background helps men, but not women, get top jobs researchers have found.

COMMENT: It's Fraud Awareness Week. Here's why we all need to look out for each other and those money traps out there.

Vodafone is heading to Mt Eden before shifting into its new permanent North Shore headquarters.

The CEO of an engineering firm has raised concerns about structural damage to towers that were swaying in the earthquake.

Thousands of people who work in two huge Wellington buildings can't get in this morning because of earthquake damage.

Sally Ridge is now a licensed real estate agent with her first listing for sale in Auckland.

Business people are upset about Queen St's homeless but they're being called on to help.