Property news

Are 1576 new homes heading to the scrap heap? Full list of developments on hold at KO

Future of big housing developments hangs in the balance.

Hawke’s Bay apple industry: Newcomer buys 70ha of orchards amid industry shake-up

A German-owned newcomer has bought the apple orchards in Twyford.

Flaxmere lost New World, Havelock North gets new replacement store

Opening date announced for replacement supermarket in affluent, growing area.

$150m+ investment: Where are eight new Foodstuffs North Island replacement supermarkets going?

Economic downturn didn't dent our food market: biggest owner expanding, replacing stores.

'True to their word' – infrastructure chief on Budget 2024

'Government appears to have recognised the deficit with roading and rail maintenance.'

Where new supermarkets have opened and might rise soon

Where are new stores opening? One store shut in Flaxmere but that's been eclipsed.

Real estate agent wins court dispute over commission on $6.6m sale

Station was sold between brothers' trusts in a "family arrangement".

Freedom from secrecy and shame: How a sex abuse victim has transformed her life

'Now I live a life that I thought only existed in movies or books.'

Evacuations and no power: The fate of 1000 retirement village residents during cyclone

"Mobile generators were a godsend. In our new villages, we’re building generators."

Cyclone Gabrielle: 6 Summerset villages lost power, communications

"Ran essential services on generator power, fully supplied with food and medication."

'Selling a house is not a hopeless exercise': Inside Hawke's Bay's property market

Agents say the property market is slowly, but surely, improving.

House values fall close to 10pc in a year in Napier

Lines were once out the door. Now agents are 'lucky to get two or three to an open home'.