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Where Ikea is hunting for its first Auckland site
Will your neighbourhood be near the new store?

'So angry': Customers fume as awning business folds
"We have heard nothing" - Total Cover NZ customer

$65m Remuera apartment project planned
Clonbern Garden is seeking buyers to pay deposits.

Haka outside Ihumātao site where an announcement on the land’s future is being promised before Waitangi Day
Haka outside Ihumātao site where an announcement on the land’s future is being promised before Waitangi Day. Video / Michael Sergel

Massive 191-room hotel planned for Auckland CBD
Two new hotels opposite NZICC, another new one nearby

The Auckland suburb with the most cinema theatre seats
The suburb will have three large multiplex theatres within a few blocks of each other.

Owner of defective apartment left $23m short after contractor folds
Victopia owners won $53m to fix apartments - but only got $30m.

NZ house-building hits highest mark since 1974
The great boom of the mid-1970s was the last time we saw houses spring up so fast.

Fletcher's Ross Taylor on restructuring, fire and golf
"If I could eliminate all safety risks, I would."

Watch: $200m Seascape tower rising on schedule
"Allegations about hold-ups due to defects in the diaphragm wall are incorrect" - engineer

When is a 'garden' not a garden? Apartment buyer wants refund
Neil Gray claims he was misled about the unit he was buying and wants his deposit back.

Hundreds of Auckland Council staff to move to $120m block
The new office block will be located in Albany.

Tiny house company fails leaving buyers with partly-built homes
A West Auckland tiny house building business has gone under, leaving unfinished homes.

$6m building job blows out to $10m at veterans' building
The extra spend will add years to the lifespan of the building said one person involved.

Brand of Brothers: The $1b family business building Auckland
How Willis Bond and LT McGuinness are taking on Auckland.

Kiwi building chosen as world's top inside office
A Takapuna building has won big at the World Architecture Festival.

Auckland city holiday accommodation for $265 a week, but there's a catch
It might be affordable but guests will have to be okay with sharing bathrooms.

Fletcher reveals profit expectations for coming year
Fletcher expects to post a profit despite the convention centre fire.

Blind Foundation HQ to be levelled for retirement village
"This is the union of commercial and charitable interests" - Wilkinson.

Convention centre fire: SkyCity, Fletcher insurance update
SkyCity thanks insurers for professionalism, cooperation

Building company ordered to pay $151k after worker paralysed
Fall had "devastating consequences" - WorkSafe

Metroglass stock tumbles on full-year profit downgrade
Glass company finds it tough going, still

Arvida spending 'millions' upgrading Kerikeri road
A 17ha farm site is being developed at the end of the cul de sac on the outskirts of town.

A$103m tax court date against tallest NZ apartment developer
Purchasers of The Pacifica apartments have heard from Hengyi on court case

SkyCity fire: Fletcher Building board to front shareholders
$487m gap: what Fletcher revealed on NZICC.

Mall wars: Albany gets $500m super-size, St Lukes five years away
What happened to St Lukes? "Newmarket," says Peter Allen, CEO Scentre Group.

Mega-mall grows: 15-level hotel/offices, more shops, 5000 parks
15-level hotel/office block planned for Sylvia Park

The three factors that dragged down Kiwi Property profit
The company's profit dropped 24 per cent.

Developer of NZ's second tallest building has Australian assets frozen
The developer of the 57-level Pacifica apartment tower has had assets frozen.