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Some homes exempt from rental rules
Tenants' rights groups have welcomed plans to insulate all rental properties, but nearly 100,000 would be exempt where it was impossible to retro-fit insulation.
Tenants' rights groups have welcomed plans to insulate all rental properties, but nearly 100,000 would be exempt where it was impossible to retro-fit insulation.
A council body has four months to produce a viable film studio plan at Hobsonville Pt or the land will be used for housing.
Aucklanders are divided on either side of the movies versus home debate that’s been raging over a prime piece of land in Hobsonville Pt.
One of New Zealand's largest privately owned elderly-care, rest home and retirement village businesses is planning a $450 million to $500 million expansion.
A second Kiwi engineer is working on the world's tallest new tower and the first kilometre-high building.
A pre-fabricated housing business, which built four new multimillion dollar Auckland houses aims to build new places within only four weeks.
Two Auckland Council bodies are at loggerheads over whether 20ha of land at Hobsonville Pt should be used for housing or a film studio.
The Bunnings chain of hardware stores have been a great success story, but the chain is at risk of becoming a victim of its own success, writes Christopher Niesche.
The results of a probe into retirement village residents' complaints and disputes with their owners and managers will be revealed next month and could lead to a shake-up.
Expansion constraints now mean the city and its port are about to head off in entirely different economic directions, their futures divided by widespread opposition, writes Anne Gibson.
If Housing NZ has its way, no one will be able to easily say 'that's state housing' - see its latest plans for new Auckland homes.
A Chinese couple have taken a novel approach to quickly building Auckland homes - using a crane to swing four new units into place over just two days.
From swimming pool fences to unauthorised construction work, three high-profile Aucklanders have appeared before the courts on a range of charges.
Len Brown is being urged by a senior councillor to accept a court ruling on controversial wharf extensions and instruct Ports of Auckland to do the same.
Nearly 6000 new apartments are set to be built across Auckland over the next three years, with most planned for suburban and city fringe areas, new research reveals.
Company denies liability, awaits appeal result involving Ministry of Education.
More than 500 New Zealand leaky-home victims, whose places have been clad in James Hardie materials, could lodge legal action in Auckland in the next few weeks.
Government plans to fill vacant Crown land with houses are being lambasted by Labour as a fiasco after one of four would-be Auckland sites turned out to be largely council-owned.
Shoddy buildings are going up in Auckland with workers encountering serious problems and inspection fails at some sites.
Building consents fell in April, after the previous month's strong gain, as intentions to build houses decreased.
Land sold by TVNZ to SkyCity for $10 million to help build a convention centre has been valued at $28 million, less than two years later.
Funding has been confirmed for a class action lawsuit against the makers of defective plaster cladding.
Builders are already fretting about responding to Government plans for up to 10,000 affordable new residences on 500ha of the Auckland Crown landbank.
Free Primavera 50 Vespa motor scooters and helmets are being given away with six "affordable" Mt Eden one-bedroom apartments, for sale from $430,000.
Kiwi Property Group's annual earnings increased 4.5 per cent as it seeks to raise $151.9 million to expand Sylvia Park.
Construction is due to resume at the weekend on the giant Waterview motorway interchange project after the discovery of faulty concrete forced it to a halt a fortnight ago.
Changes to immigration rules to help meet demand for the 5000 more construction workers needed to rebuild Canterbury have been largely welcomed by a workers’ union.