Two retail properties in the heart of the Mt Roskill shopping strip at the top of Dominion Rd are for auction, with one of them, at 1252 Dominion Rd, vacated by the Westpac Bank.

Major Auckland office block Swanson Towers could be in line for conversion into a hotel.

Developers are eying opportunities to build new Auckland hotels.

Auckland University has become New Zealand's largest real estate developer, with a $1 billion 10-year order book already well under way.

Brownfield sites - older and rundown industrial properties - are increas-ingly becoming the only option for businesses hoping to develop industrial premises in Auckland's more established industrial suburbs, says Justin Kean, director of research and capi

Ex-rich-lister Jamie Peters entered into a finance agreement on a luxury car at a time when he was unable to pay debts when they fell due, the High Court heard today.

Auckland city's oldest surviving hotel building, the Fitzroy Hotel built in 1854-55 on the corner of Wakefield St and Lyndock St.

Former rich-lister Jamie Peters has told the High Court he "barely survived" using $80,000 from a friend's bank account.

The building sector is expecting a rise in fortunes as the economy recovers and the Canterbury rebuild gets into full swing about 2016.

The number of companies going into receivership has fallen but more businesses are wanting advice on how to avoid financial trouble.

A $76 million job - the country's biggest building makeover - last night won the Property Council's top award.

The house-building sector is experiencing its biggest surge in more than a decade as demand for new places.

Architects Jeff Fearon and Tim Hay of Fearon Hay have won NZ’s top award for architecture, from the NZ Institute of Architects for their work on the Imperial Buildings refurbishment and strengthening. Ross Healy of Phillimore Properties who owns the buildings had been more than impressed with the finished result. New Zealand Herald reporter Anne Gibson spoke with the winning team.

Controversial plans for a $100 million 27-level Dunedin hotel have been knocked back.

The Government's pokies for convention centre deal cannot bind future governments to compensate SkyCity if the deal is revoked, leading constitutional lawyer Stephen Franks says.

Scarfie favourite, Dunedin's Captain Cook Tavern, could close by the middle of this month.

Sex trade entrepreneurs John and Michael Chow have opened a new downtown Auckland brothel, one in Wellington and are planning another in Auckland.

TSB Bank lifted annual profit 11 per cent as rural and commercial lending rose faster than its traditional sector in household mortgages.

A $2.3 million winery estate is for sale after being placed in receivership.

A luxury accommodation business set in 5822sq m of sub tropical gardens on the Coromandel Peninsula is being marketed for sale.

Hamilton's central business district is seeing a development surge in properties.

Auckland's 'frothy' housing market poses the biggest risk to the economy's strengthening recovery, the Institute of Economic Research says.

New Zealand chef Peter Gordon's dine restaurant in Auckland shuts this week so the area can be gutted and the SkyCity Grand Hotel's new hotel lobby bar can be relocated there.

Consultants have been paid $1.6 million for work on Auckland Council's Yard 37 marine precinct development.