About 600 construction workers are on the 17ha site of New Zealand's biggest new prison and the country's largest public-private partnership, which is recruiting staff now.

Some cynics think plans for the country's biggest new skyscraper are just a lot of hot air but an Auckland Council boss says wind is something to be avoided.

Property expert Jonno Ingerson joined us for a live chat, with the Reserve Bank expected to lift official interest rates later this week.

For the first time in 10 years a stand-alone office building has come up for lease in Newton that will appeal to creative and commercial companies.

A glimpse at plans for the country's tallest new skyscraper shows how it will have open skydecks, with gardens or trees, and has been designed to reflect the Sky Tower.

There is strong demand for places in Auckland's Innovation Precinct.

Online campaigns have succeeded in reviving Georgie Pie and Choco-ade - but have failed to convince furniture giant Ikea to come to New Zealand.

Indonesian and Singaporean investors are buying one of the country's biggest office towers in a deal worth more than $100m.

The decontaminated site of a former service station is being offered for sale on the Te Atatu Peninsula with resource consent to erect a ground-floor retail area.

The council's claims of high levels of design control are illusory and don't stack up, writes Richard Burton. "Very few residential developments will require a resource consent."

Eleven vacant retail units forming part of a new convenience retail development on a high profile site on Cavendish Drive in Manukau are up for sale.

Retirement village company Summerset has unveiled a 46 per cent jump in underlying profits.

Controversial $3.3 billion plans to develop a new freight hub or inland port at Ruakura on Hamilton's outskirts are due to be heard in May.

Precinct Properties is planning a $200 million five-building Wynyard Quarter campus as well as the $300 million 32-level Downtown tower.