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Hot property: Auckland values soar
Auckland house values are up by 43.8 per cent on the last boom in 2007 - but a valuer is warning that off-the-plan buyers are not always recovering their money.
Auckland house values are up by 43.8 per cent on the last boom in 2007 - but a valuer is warning that off-the-plan buyers are not always recovering their money.
Auckland mayor Len Brown and other local politicians have called for their pay to be reined in by the Government.
Murray Goulburn, Australia's biggest dairy co-operative, has confirmed a full-year forecast farmgate price of A$6 per kg of milk solids.
New Zealand's export dollar does not stretch as far as it did, after the terms of trade fell 1.9 per cent in the last three months of 2014.
An alarming decline in food production at British farms will leave shoppers at the mercy of prices and quality elsewhere in the world, warns a UK farming report.
Business confidence has strengthened in ANZ's first survey of the year.
The net migrant gain has rebounded, pushing the annual population gain from this source to a record 53,800.
Fonterra chief financial officer Lukas Paravicini rejects the notion that the co-operative is playing safe in keeping this season's farm gate milk price forecast at $4.70 a kilogram of milksolids.
Drains and water mains are the ultimate out of sight, out of mind assets.
Global political uncertainty and oil price volatility have seen the confidence of Kiwi chief executives take a hit this year, but they are still more optimistic than their counterparts in Australia....
New Zealand eked out a merchandise trade surplus of $56 million last month, its first since last June, but on an annual basis the deficit widened to $1.4 billion from $1.2 billion for calendar....
New Zealand's annual net migration rose to another record in January as fewer locals departed for Australia, while Indian student numbers continued to bolster the influx of new arrivals.
In the last year, Auckland house prices were up 16 per cent and it is expected pressures will build up house prices even more.
Philanthropist and businessman Sir Stephen Tindall has been named Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year 2015.
Business leader Sir Stephen Tindall is making a last-gasp plea to Mayor Len Brown and councillors to halt further reclamation of the Waitemata Harbour for port use.
The Auckland Council seems to be constantly surprised by decisions of its subordinate bodies.
Building height restrictions and NIMBY attitudes in inner Auckland are standing in the way of an response to Auckland's housing shortage, the Reserve Bank governor says.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras won four more months to sell his policy program to creditors while keeping domestic voters on board.
In the midst of the price swoon, many executives and workers remain confident the oil-sands industry will pull through.
Which booming NZ housing market has turned down, and could it happen in Auckland? NZIER principal economist Shamubeel Eaqub explains.