By this time next year, the first buildings could be going up in Wanaka's single-biggest commercial and residential development.

Two dedicated shoe stores in the Bay of Islands tourism centres of Kerikeri and Paihia are for sale as one going concern business as the only stores of their type in the Far North.

Lochmara Lodge, an award-winning luxury accommodation and dining property just 15 minutes by boat from Picton in Queen Charlotte Sound, Marlborough, is for sale.

The head of Fletcher Buildings' Winstone Wallboards is defending its dominant New Zealand plasterboard position, as the company awaits a Commerce Commission ruling.

Construction workers are at Auckland University's Newmarket campus site, preparing former warehouses for the first students to move in from late July.

The dilution of housing intensification in relation to Auckland Council's recently notified Unitary Plan will adversely affect the supply of land for businesses.

Port of Tauranga has continued its national expansion by buying up 15ha of commercial land in Canterbury to create a new inland port.

A new Arch Hill boutique cinema with four theatres is to be built on a site where 80 apartments and new shops are also planned.

A bankrupt property developer who used fronts and false information to borrow money as part of a $50 million loan scheme has been found guilty this morning.

Balmoral residents and their local MP Phil Goff are angry about plans for a large expansion of The Warehouse.

Investor confidence in the Auckland industrial sector is at a net positive 63 per cent - up from 36 per cent a year ago, says a survey by Colliers International.

Without action, Auckland faces a shortage of business-zoned land, potentially hampering manufacturing, transport, storage, construction and wholesale trades.

Auckland University's $1 billion decade-long property push is in full swing at Newmarket where many brewery structures, buildings and view-blocking fences have come down.

The Western Park Village caravan park, on a big site in the heart of the West Auckland suburb of Ranui, is for sale for the first time in 16 years.

The Arch Hill Residents Society is going to the Environment Court, appealing against Bunnings being given permission to build in their Auckland neighbourhood.

A financier has sold 65 Quay Park apartments and eight shops and offices on Maori land to a developer in a multimillion-dollar deal.

The biggest commercial building site crane in the country is Fletcher Construction's giant on Auckland University's $200 million science faculty job.

The ground floor of the first block of Auckland apartments to rise since the global financial crisis is due to be poured on Saturday.

Weathertight Homes Tribunal rules dwellings in St Heliers retirement village are private residences.