A land deal has been approved as part an overseas broadcasting giant's purchase of popular TV show Shortland Street's production house.

A West Auckland commercial building at 30 The Concourse in a popular industrial area of Henderson is being offered for sale as an excellent split-risk investment opportunity.

'Horrific" rates of nearly $50k a year on land still being grazed by livestock prompted the $37.9m sale of one of Auckland's largest land lots.

People behind the increasingly tired hot pools complex at Waiwera hint there are better days to come but the locals are more sceptical, writes Geoff Cumming.

Of the many schemes dreamed up for the thermal resort town of Waiwera, the plans outlined by Russian oil mogul Mikhail Khimich were the most grandiose yet.

A wealthy Russian has been ordered to sell his rural property after failing to make progress on a promised boutique winery and vodka distillery.

Oil tycoon Mikhail Khimich's promises to transform sleepy Waiwera have so far come to nothing. The Herald investigates why his ventures have struggled.

A family-owned company believed to have paid more than $30m for the St James Theatre in Queen St intends to restore the historic performance venue.

The owners and operators of Pacific Harbour Lodge on the east coast of the Coromandel Peninsula at Tairua want to sell the land and buildings as a tourism investment asset and negotiate a 30-year lease with the new owners so they can continue running it.

Alan Wallace is an accidental property investor, signing a deal to sell a 16ha East Tamaki site for more than $40m after paying $630,000 for the real estate 21 years ago.

A sobbing SkyCity Entertainment Group employee told hundreds of shareholders of the raw deal the company had dealt her after 15 years of employment in Auckland.