COMMENT: Are overseas investors currying favour with the Investment Office to ensure the approval of large land purchasers? Barry Soper looks at some recent examples.

Argentine investors who were approved to buy a farm in NZ were allegedly investigated for a pollution incident which led to fatalities, claims Labour MP David Cunliffe.

The Government says it is hiking the fees for foreign investment applications to help the Overseas Investment Office keep a closer eye on investors.

Two Argentine investors could be forced to sell a $6 million New Zealand farm if they are found to have misled the Overseas Investment Office.

The Overseas Investment Office is taking a harder line in rejecting applications that need more work.

Ngarango Otainui lies in Auckland's Manukau Harbour and is only 5km from the airport.

A five-year investigation into the sale of Motukawaiti Island has failed to turn up enough evidence for the OIO to launch a prosecution.

If an investment fund started buying up NZ dairy farms and dairy factories and wanted to staff them with workers imported from low wage countries this should ring alarm bells, writes Peter Lyons.

NZ First leader Winston Peters has told a Grey Power meeting they had better start buying more clothes and blankets because they won't be able to afford the rising prices if the Chinese or the Australians move to buy the power stations

Carter Holt Harvey is putting 29 dairy farms on the market, asking $224.5 million in the biggest single offering of farm land seen in NZ.