The upmarket Auckland suburb of Pt Chevalier will be home to the next series of The Block NZ.

Kiwibank has announced it will lift its home loan rates in response to yesterday's Reserve Bank decision to increase the Official Cash Rate.

A Coromandel beachfront commercial property with an upstairs apartment and sweeping ocean views plus a development site just two doors away are up for auction.

Leasing has now started for the Pinehill Centre, a new North Shore development in Albany that will comprise 22 retail outlets and commercial offices.

It was to be a development so huge it was nicknamed Neverland, but now nearly 1ha of St Heliers land has been put up for sale.

The $1.26 million seismic upgrade of Diocesan School for Girls' old chapel will be finished around mid-May.

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.

Its first Property Connector for the year contains CBRE's biggest portfolio of Auckland office properties for lease for two years.

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.

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.