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.

New Zealand's crane population is booming with 71 up, compared to just 10 two years ago.

The country's busiest house builder expects to put up a third more homes this year and could build more than 1000.

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.

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.

Many businesses think the raising of the official cash rate by the Reserve Bank was precipitate.

The long-vacant ex-Auckland Star site between Fort St and Shortland St could soon get a carpark.

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.

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.

Some Aucklanders say a new skyscraper in downtown Auckland is a blot on the landscape. Others think it's a landmark building that will revitalise the area. Anne Gibson reports

A retirement village developer spending $500 million in Auckland says building in the city is hard because Auckland Council is extremely slow to process consent applications.

Building consent for New Zealand's tallest new skyscraper could be granted next year if all goes to plan.

Plans for New Zealand's tallest skyscraper, to rise in the heart of Auckland, have been unveiled today.

Money that Mainzeal Property & Construction owed to its staff, a trading bank and Inland Revenue has been largely repaid.

Change of venue for half-year figures reflects 'significant operations in Australia'.