Why Chinese pod home doors open into fresh air high up at Point Chevalier project
The way things look with many of the doors now, if you stepped out you'd be in peril.
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Mary Holm: Should I sell up in the face of mortgage rate rises?
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NZ's most expensive house: Sale shatters price record
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Nick Hoogwerf used the letterhead of a real company, but the valuation was false.
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Massive residential development in central Queenstown
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Neighbours at war over risk to sea view
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Developer proposes housing for Awatoto sea front
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'Shattered hearts': Friends launch appeal for missing estate agent Yanfei Bao
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One bank is now testing at over 9 per cent.
Missing estate agent's alleged kidnapper had only been in NZ for several months
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Yanfei Bao's employer speaks of 'very heavy hearts' as search efforts ramp up
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24 pages of amendments: MPs rush to declare interests after Michael Wood scandal
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Project finds way to retrofit concrete floors to make buildings safer in quakes
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Petition launched to keep 18-hole golf course open space
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Missing real estate agent: Police search home on street where her car was found
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Police find cellphone of missing real estate agent, 'concerned' for her welfare
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