Building consents for residential housing rose to a six-and-a-half year high in March, snapping two months of decline.

Shipping containers are being put to new uses in Auckland, as builders make inroads on two prominent city sites.

A big new Takapuna beachfront development started a few weeks ago has left an Auckland councillor unimpressed

Editorial: Inevitably, there will be opposition to the demolition of Auckland's Civic Building. Some see the Aotea Square structure as one of the country's finest modernist buildings.

Alice the tunnel-boring machine sometimes seems to work at its own pace.

A real estate agency boss has backed a call this week by finance minister Bill English to relax rules designed to stamp out so-called "shoebox apartments".

It's costing $1.4b and by 2017 should help give drivers from Manukau to Albany with an alternative to SH1 and the harbour bridge. So how's it going?

Finance Minister Bill English has hinted at changes in the Budget to make it easier for housing developers to build smaller and cheaper.

One of the world's biggest and oldest insurers is underwriting a new building warranty insurance scheme being launched in New Zealand.

The Australian home building sector is still going quite strong despite an across-the-board fall in building approvals figures for February, economists say.

A Parnell group is upset about approval for a big new apartment building, saying office workers' cars already clog their street.

A couple who paid $913,000 for a leaky Meadowbank house fought for four years to get it reclad after an earlier repair continued to let water into the home.

Franchisees at the country's biggest house builder remain dissatisfied with Auckland Council, despite claims of more speed and efficiency.

New Zealand building consents for residential housing fell 1.7 percent in February, the second straight monthly decline.

Around $47,000 could be shaved off the cost of each new place built in factories under Labour's planned KiwiBuild 100,000-house scheme, an opposition spokesman says.

Twin brothers Maui and Mihaka Hohua say they got into carpentry to repair their Kawhia home which needs a bit done to it.

Carter Holt Harvey has agreed with the Commerce Commission that it should pay a $1.85m penalty for its part in a timber price fixing cartel with a division of Fletcher Building.

Fletcher Residential has approval to create 479 housing lots or sections in seven stages on the Manukau Golf Course.

NZ's largest construction company will bring some of the world's biggest builders here for the $4 billion-plus new public private partnership contracts it wants to win.

The construction of the motorway interchange at the northern end of Auckland's new Waterview connection has moved a step closer to completion.

Building activity slowed in the final three months of 2013 as non-residential work dropped for a second quarter.

A house construction rebound here and in Australia, the earthquake rebuild and cost-cutting will boost operating earnings Fletcher Building's interim result.

The New Zealand Institute of Economic Research expects the economy to grow 3 per cent this year.

A leading recruitment boss has identified construction workers as most likely to receive a pay rise from their boss this year.

A strong New Zealand building recovery drove the country's biggest listed entity to push up half-year earnings 5 per cent and leave analysts expecting a strong second half.

A lawyer who grossly overcharged his former golfing buddy has been struck off the Law Society's register, and ordered to repay almost $500,000 in overcharged fees.