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Market close: NZ stocks end flat as investors await Fletcher, election result

Most of the talk in the market was around Fletcher Building.

'Is it going to take someone being electrocuted and killed?': Fletcher pipe crisis

"We believe this is an Australia-wide issue and that WA is simply the tip of the iceberg."

Why a $3m-plus Auckland house nets resident only $185,000

New offer to break the impasse between resident lessees and board with 100 properties.

City that had just 'six' available rentals gets $11.2m boost to build more

The local rental market is 'unbelievably tight', social housing operator says.

Sweden to Ōwairaka: Why modular house business turned to Europe for $90m project

'We went to the USA, China and Europe but the Swedish model was the right model for us.'

Fisher & Paykel Appliances to develop radical new $220m three-building global HQ

Whiteware giant to leave East Tāmaki base for Penrose where around 1000 people will work.

Infratil’s CDC Data Centres gets another valuation hike, Auckland plans expanded

Yet another revaluation as CDC's construction plans expanded, accelerated.

Work to commence on Forgotten World Highway sealing

Motorists should plan ahead as the road will be closed at times.

First-half commercial, industrial, retail property sales $1.2b, down 25pc

Private investors are the single most active group, ahead of syndicates and foreigners.

Covid wage subsidy scam: Prison for dad who made fake company

Uatesoni Filimoehala was already bankrupt when the pandemic hit. It didn't deter him.

Southern Cross members make $1.3b claims: premiums to rise

Forecast of 7.1 per cent premium rise for 940,000 members in the 2024 year.

Top Kiwi architect Marshall Cook dies

'There’s not enough time to say all that needs to be said about Marsh.'

What landlords and tenants need to know this election - will renters take a hit?

Tenant-favoured policies could swing more back towards landlords: details outlined here.

Fewer apartment jobs blamed for falling crane numbers

Slowing pipelines of work in residential sector blamed for the decrease in skyline giants.

$435m of property sold: NZ's two biggest deals of 2023

Two transactions challenge views that the market is quiet: both were in South Auckland.

New timber processing plant rises from ashes

The building's previous plant was destroyed in a fire.