Is six storeys the new height for apartment buildings in zones approved for four storeys?

An Auckland-based building society is accused of making "deceptive" statements about a fund it manages and claims it holds US$6.2 billion of assets.

Applications to build new houses and apartments have hit a new seven-year high but the rate of growth is slowing.

A dispute over building defects at one of Auckland's biggest shopping malls was on the electronic online High Court list last Thursday.

Filling a gap left by bigger construction companies has been the foundation of a specialist bridge-building firm.

The Hataitai bus tunnel in central Wellington will be earthquake-strengthened over the next six months, causing some disruptions to off-peak bus services.

Burglars forced entry to an eco house being built in Christchurch - stealing a fully-constructed wall from the lounge. Is it a case of industrial espionage?

Fletcher Residential has applied to Auckland Council to have the Three Kings quarry re-zoned for apartments up to 10 levels high in the deep pit.

A new $17 million health and fitness centre at private Epsom girls' school St Cuthbert's College opens today.

A councillor has called it "pure madness" to spend $157.4 million on the council's new central Auckland premises.

The market for small low-cost houses by commercial group builders is gathering pace, as cash-strapped Aucklanders squeeze in and up.

Buyers of hundreds of new Auckland waterfront apartments will escape the leasehold ground rent trap.

Auckland's mega motorway tunnelling machine is powering its way below Waterview with only about 300 metres to go before reaching daylight early next month.

Families of the 115 people killed in the CTV building collapse during the 2011 Canterbury quake are hopeful justice will be served by a criminal investigation.

New Zealand's expanding building industry has signed up its 9000th apprentice - but says it is running out of young people to fill the demand for more.

NZ building consents rose at a modest 0.1pc pace in July reflecting a drop in the number of consents issued in Canterbury and a pick up in Auckland.

At long last the cavalry has ridden in to deal to Auckland's housing crisis. Indeed, not one cavalry, but several.

Auckland International Airport's vast Mangere land bank rose in value by $734 million between June 2011 and June 2014.

The country's busiest house builder, which expects to put up a third more homes this year, has welcomed the Government's KiwiSaver boost announced on Sunday.

McConnell Dowell Constructors is drilling an underground tunnel north of Auckland, from the Watercare Pump Station at Orewa to subdivisions north of Grand Drive.

National is promising grants for first-home buyers on modest incomes will be doubled - to up to $20k for a couple buying a newly built home - if it is re-elected next month.

A Melbourne engineer with some of London's biggest commercial and residential building projects under his belt is Fletcher Building's new housing boss.

Ports of Auckland said it had reached its goal of achieving a 12 per cent return on equity two years ahead of schedule with a net profit of $74 million for the year to June 30, up 90 per cent on the previous year.

New Zealand's biggest listed company is planning a five-fold surge in house building, concentrating mainly on Auckland, where it is negotiating to buy a big site in the city's northwest.