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David Schnauer: Infratil takeover bid and housing prices
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Ponsonby school fire: Residents left in the dark over asbestos risk
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Builder fined $200,000 after worker fell from scaffold
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John Hawkes: Our obsession with property is a teetering Ponzi pyramid
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Generous arts benefactor Adrian Burr dies
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University of Auckland had to sell leaky Remuera mansion at massive discount
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