The Government opens its books today. Now is a good time to assess your own budget.

$32.8m bill to fix Mt Wellington apartments.

Tauranga council asks for more time for a review into its handling of building consents.

Draw the charts inside to see how much you know about New Zealand's Budget.

The former agents have been suspended for eight months, fined $1500 and censured.

COMMENT: It's time to inject some resilience into your incomings and outgoings.

The value of its property portfolio rose at a slower pace, and it expects more moderation.

Residential sections sell by the minute as housing shortage bites in Hawke's Bay.

COMMENT: Tax relief would allow all households and business to pay down their debt.

Flooding, erosion and sea levels rising can make it hard to get insurance in parts of NZ.

Resource consent has just been granted for the controversial 186-berth marina.

The iwi, which already owns waterfront land, says they're the port's natural owner.

You could get hundreds in free Government money, and it's not even very hard.

Listing volumes have ballooned 42 per cent in the last year.

Ryman has bought a 3.2 hectare site in Geelong, Victoria's second-biggest city.

Rents would rise in reaction to Labour's investment tax policy, an investor warns.

COMMENT: What's the difference between a savings account and a KiwiSaver account?

More people are taking their money out of KiwiSaver for hardship reasons.

COMMENT: Multinationals aren't used to being stymied overseas, writes Samanth Subramanian

COMMENT: Foreign currency is not something that you can take chances on.

The village will go ahead, after five weeks of mediation in the Environment Court.

Auckland house prices only rose $24,500, a mere 3 per cent, in the past year.

While Christchurch prices saw a dip, Wellington outstripped the rest of the country.

An apartment proposal shows how Auckland streetscapes are changing.

The Government has responded to news that four out of five Aucklanders can't buy a home.

Paul Bublitz, Bruce McKay, Richard Blackwood and Lance Morrison were on trial in Auckland.

The plight of first-home buyers in Auckland has worsened, new government figures show.

A nine-month-long trial of the directors of two failed finance companies has been aborted

Unexpected area is by far the city's most expensive.

IRD holds staff meetings ahead of plans to cut 1500 staff between 2018 and 2021.