Dampening highly geared speculators' appetite for the Auckland cash-box housing market got the thumbs up from many quarters yesterday.

David Chaplin says the Reserve Bank has made a heroic attempt to hose down the smouldering Auckland property market.

The Reserve Bank will introduce new limits on lending to property investors in the Auckland Council area that would require those borrowers to have at least a 30 per cent deposit. What effect will this have?

Everyone says interest rates are low therefore they must go up. But Brent Sheather says maybe not so, in the short term.

A Netflix tax? Soon, overseas companies will have to collect goods and services tax at 10pc a pop on "online intangibles" or digital goods and hand it over to the Aussie government.

Hammerheads restaurant is in liquidation after occupying a prime waterfront position for more than 20 years.

Although an incredible 44 per cent of Kiwisavers have changed from their default, shifting the rest will be a challenge.

Graeme Hart's Rank Group confirmed it plans to sell down its stake in Carter Holt Harvey in an initial public offering.

Auckland Council's first big forced-sale property case sparked by unpaid rates did not go ahead as planned when the money was suddenly paid.

Inland Revenue now has a clear path to try to bankrupt an accountant who owes it nearly half a billion dollars.

Record numbers of New Zealanders are seeking to make a mint on foreign exchange trading.

Desperate home-buyers have resorted to sleeping in cars overnight in the hope of securing one of 12 sections when they go up for sale this morning.

Special team zeroes in on landlords and speculators, netting $258 million in unpaid tax in past 5 years.

Rules can mean it’s easier for single-parent child to get passport or medical care than to join savings scheme, Mary Holm writes.

Carmel Fisher says it is hard to judge the true worth of growth stocks.

Auckland Uni tax professor Craig Elliffe says there is a proposal to change the way non-residents NZ-sourced interest is taxed.

The 2015 UK general election is almost upon us and it's shaping up as one of the most interesting and unpredictable contests in decades.

Andrew King of the NZ Property Investors Federation outlines the main concerns around housing in Auckland - and clears up some of the facts.

With money, it’s not about how much we make, or even how much we keep – it’s how much we grow that counts.

Dear 20-somethings: You're quite right that nobody can make any promises about KiwiSaver in the future - or at least any promises that we can be confident a future government will keep.

Tens of thousands of first-home buyers stand to benefit from a KiwiSaver change coming into effect next month.

Setting yourself up for life financially can be done with seven easy steps.

Personal finance and investments writer Brent Sheather on the UK Financial Conduct Authority.

A tax hit facing almost 13,000 New Zealand investors in Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP Billiton is a result of "illogical" treatment of corporate demergers under this country's law, an....

The Government has proposed giving the taxman more resources to crack down on residential property speculators.

Kiwi shareholders in Australian mining giant BHP face paying an unfair tax as the company proceeds with a "demerger" plan.