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ELE group collapse: Māori workers caught out
Crown entity paid the money to support more Māori getting into the workforce.

ELE Group collapse: Immigration NZ seeks direct contact with fired workers
Visas give the workers the right to remain in this country while they are working.

ELE Group collapse: Pay cut, redundancy threat came before receivership
Collapsed company ELE was a 'good employer in a tough industry' - but now wages are gone.

Watch: First look inside $310m Deloitte Centre, InterContinental Auckland luxury hotel
A new five-star hotel opens January 30. Deloitte will begin the shift from January 15.

$19b business moving, Brian Gaynor library planned for new offices
'Fearless champion for NZ companies and investors' to be commemorated in new premises.

'Like wraparound westie sunglasses': Tower scoops national architecture award
It's robust and low-maintenance, built to withstand the very severe coastal environment.

'Dominos falling' - receivers selling 11 unfinished Auckland apartment blocks
'Wake-up call for anyone pushing the Auckland intensify agenda.'

Property Insider: Waiwera tower went with whimper; wholesale fund repayments looming
Demolition more of a labour of love, slowly unpicking the structure from the top down.

Can 5000 new homes rise at Beachlands with no reticulated water, sewage?
Bore water for homes and a new sewage treatment system are proposed by developers.

Four-level mansion rising in front of $2m-plus apartments on Takapuna beachfront
'Suffice it to say, it was a tough outcome for that end of The Sands.'

Ex-Carrington Hospital buildings to remain: Strengthening, new uses planned
"These buildings rightly have the highest level of heritage protection."

Auckland's newest skyscraper: 41-level $250m tower nears completion
The tower will be a 225-room Hotel Indigo and 30 upper-level or ‘sky’ apartments.

Property Insider: 'Value heading for zero' on Parnell homes; who owns sinkhole property
Things beginning with L: leasehold, leaky, litigation. What to avoid in a property.

Dark, moody, indigenous: Inside the appliance centre taking luxury to a new level
'This is a physical manifestation of our brand.' - Mark Elmore

Fletcher's grim AGM: Perth leaky pipes and problems on housing
$1b losses had been a 'near-death experience', the company would never return to that.

Winton Land AGM: $138.5m lawsuit revealed against Kāinga Ora
'We remain firm in our resolve to re-zone the entire Sunfield.' - Meehan

How billion-dollar builder quadrupled annual revenue
"We don’t just move people around from project to project but let them put down roots."

Eke Panuku to sell Northcote town centre
The 3.13ha publicly owned site now a large carpark surrounded by shops on council land.

'Sensationalist': Fletcher boss hits back at Aussie builder on $750m leaky pipe repair claim
Poor installation practices in Perth were cited including over-bending, poor lagging.

'Is it going to take someone being electrocuted and killed?': Fletcher pipe crisis
"We believe this is an Australia-wide issue and that WA is simply the tip of the iceberg."

Snapping up the neighbour: Sir Bob Jones buys $70m Auckland office tower
He already owned the neighbouring tower.

First-half commercial, industrial, retail property sales $1.2b, down 25pc
Private investors are the single most active group, ahead of syndicates and foreigners.

Hiwa-i-te-Rangi reaches major milestone
Watercare's Hiwi-i-te-Rangi Tunnel Boring Machine has reached the halfway mark of its 14.7-kilometer journey to central Auckland as it excavates the Central Interceptor tunnel. Video / Watercare Services Ltd

Maat suspends returns from four property investment schemes - Tuffin
Investors poured around $180m into 11 Maat property schemes - what next?

Giant Ruakura Superhub will swell Hamilton City Council’s coffers
Tainui Group Holdings sets the record straight on its commercial obligations.

NZ's biggest builders: The contenders with $100m-plus workloads
They're nipping at the heels of the biggest operators.

Focus: Ikea finally on the way at Auckland’s Sylvia Park
The traditional big blue box, large-format store of 34,000sq m will sell the latest design and home furnishing at Sylvia Park. Video / NZ Herald

Premium: First look inside $15m Highbury Birkenhead mall expansion
Highbury Birkenhead is spending $15 million on a grand makeover with plans for new-look mall to be open around Christmas. Video / Michael Craig

Markets with Madison: Construction slowdown hits suppliers
Building product supplier Metro Performance Glass is seeing demand slow and expects it to get worse. Plus, bio-tech company Pacific Edge is awaiting a decision over its Medicare cover.