Two Auckland Council bodies are at loggerheads over whether 20ha of land at Hobsonville Pt should be used for housing or a film studio.

A pre-fabricated housing business, which built four new multimillion dollar Auckland houses aims to build new places within only four weeks.

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.

A vast 155ha block of South Auckland land has been ear-marked for a 1800 new dwellings to help ease the city's housing crisis.

Building consents were static in May as dwindling demand in Auckland offset increased construction intentions in other parts of NZ.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Company denies liability, awaits appeal result involving Ministry of Education.

The Government has fast-tracked the building of a further 1000 houses and apartments at Hobsonville Pt and about 300 of those will cost less than $550,000.

A Christchurch man is the second person in Canterbury to be convicted for carrying out plumbing work without authorisation within the last two 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.

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.

A crackdown on tradies' cash jobs is yielding "outstanding" results, says the tax department.

Major changes to rules about quake-prone buildings have been announced, cutting the number of buildings requiring assessment from 500,000 to 30,000.

Fletcher Building subsidiary Fletcher Living has just won a huge Government contract to build 191 new Christchurch houses.

Investigations are being carried out into weak, faulty Firth concrete supplied to the $1.4b Waterview Connection.

New Zealand has 72 large fixed cranes up, including 29 in Auckland and 23 in Christchurch.

The director of a failed Auckland building contractor that owes creditors almost $5 million has allegedly refused to co-operate with receivers.