Discount retail outlet Dress-Smart in Onehunga has been expanded and upgraded, with about another 1000sq m added.

Prisoners at Auckland's new $300 million private men's jail could be building or fixing metal skip bins.

A new dining/restaurant and cinema zone at West Auckland's LynnMall and apartments and offices at Sylvia Park are planned.

A new website for commercial property, which combines the Herald's national listings of property and businesses for sale with expert editorial writing.

A new apartment buyer faces the possibility of a legal row with a developer after finding window and bed space blocked by pillars she claims were not on the plans.

The Sultan of Brunei has sold Auckland's 26-level BNZ tower at 125 Queen St for $57 million in this year's biggest New Zealand property deal.

A big block in the central business district of the South Waikato town of Putaruru is for sale, and a proposed district plan will allow for its development.

The privatisation of Queen Elizabeth Square for a giant mall downtown in the CBD was initiated by Auckland Council last year, documents show.

Four New Zealand businessmen have joined Americans to develop Vunabaka, a new $140 million Fiji resort, where the first stage of construction is nearly finished.

Precinct Properties, with consent for a 41-level Auckland waterfront tower on its Downtown Shopping Centre site, took a team to San Francisco last month to study a new 62-level waterfront skyscraper rising above an underground railway there.

The eastern Chinese city of Suzhou is joining a national rush for the sky with what's slated to become the world's third-tallest building.

Online retail sales growth is slowing and 19 out of every 20 New Zealand purchases are still made in a shop,

Auckland is suffering a desperate shortage of land for business expansion and retailing with a "critical short supply" of large format shopping space, says one Auckland councillor.

Eden Park's operators have tabled plans to borrow $1.8 million to install a sound barrier for the east stand.

Auckland's CBD has cranes on its horizon again, but not enough to resolve a critical office-space squeeze

New Zealand real estate investment specialist Caniwi Capital has bought chicken processing plants, hatcheries and farms from Inghams Enterprises NZ .

An organisation representing 10,000 young Kiwis backs plans for Unitec and Eden Park.

Intensive housing development on land surrounding Cornwall Park is being proposed - but lessees fear it'll result in further hikes to lease fees after new valuations.

Former Auckland apartment developer Lily Zhong is planning a US$380 million ($436 million) scheme to develop commercial and residential units on vacant land in Florida.