Fletcher Building AGM + video
Fletcher Building has forecast an 11 per cent operating earnings uplift by as much as $66 million this financial year but some shareholders still expressed dissatisfaction at yesterday's AGM in Auckland.
Fletcher Building has forecast an 11 per cent operating earnings uplift by as much as $66 million this financial year but some shareholders still expressed dissatisfaction at yesterday's AGM in Auckland.
A specialist building and construction lawyer has backed a Supreme Court decision on an apartment owner's access to his Auckland block.
A big court case over one of Auckland's most ill-fated apartment tower developments is set down to be heard early next year.
Auckland's job numbers are growing, with 21,000 added in the past year.
It's lunchtime and Timaru is bustling. Stop a local and ask why, and most will give you the same answer: Allan Hubbard.
Major centres are sprouting a growing crane population, with 76 cranes now on big sites.
Finance Minister Bill English says rising land values in Auckland caused by planning constraints have made it "illegal to build a house under half a million dollars".
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.
An increasing number of Aucklanders are looking at getting 80 per cent-plus mortgages to build homes in the south and west.
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.