More than 1000 people have signed an online petition protesting a West Auckland McDonald's from operating 24 hours a day.

Waiheke's biggest landowner has lost a challenge over the zoning on parts of its holdings on the island's eastern tip and on a nearby island.

The reduced dairy payout and the high Kiwi dollar are being carefully assessed by potential farm buyers, says the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand.

Mt Albert residents who feared an 80-unit Housing NZ scheme in their neighbourhood have been told of much smaller plans.

Many owners of big apartment blocks are going through their second leaky building repair project, after the first fix-up failed.

Auckland Council's City Centre Integration team has just released a map showing the huge public and private investment planned for the next decade.

Artists' impressions of Auckland's City Rail Link include a new underground station at Karangahape Rd built to resemble a stingray.

A fight has erupted over one of New Zealand's biggest leaky building payouts, as 253 owners of a North Shore apartment/hotel tower battle one another.