That's a $1,009,000 difference in price and a Gisborne real estate agent says the cheaper investment will see a rental return that is "way ahead" of what the Auckland market is seeing.
2. Grieving family offer olive branch
The family of a girl killed in a crash with two other people say the tourist accused of causing the carnage is as much a victim as those who died.
A 52-year-old Dutch man will appear in Christchurch District Court today charged with three counts of careless use of a vehicle causing death and one charge of careless use of a vehicle causing injury.
Abigail Hone. Photo / supplied
3. Nats donor in China bribery case
Donghua Liu. Photo / Richard Robinson
A wealthy Auckland businessman, whose links to the National Party led to a senior minister's resignation, gave cut-price real estate deals to a Chinese politician in return for business favours, according to a court judgment.
Donghua Liu said he was not charged in connection to the corruption case but gave evidence at the trial which led to a 13-year jail sentence for the political leader who was convicted of accepting bribes.
4. Computer users warned over virus pandemic
Computer users have been warned to take urgent action to protect themselves from a global cyber virus pandemic.
Police around the globe have launched an unprecedented attack on high-tech criminals behind software causing misery to millions, but the hackers are expected to soon rebuild their network.
Gameover Zeus, which first appeared in September 2011, stole bank information and other confidential details from victims. According to FBI investigators, the virus infected between 500,000 and a million computers in 12 countries, creating a network of "bots" the hackers could "infiltrate, spy on, and even control, from anywhere they wished."
5. Controversy grows over rescued US soldier
A Pentagon investigation concluded in 2010 that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl walked away from his unit, and after an initial flurry of searching the military decided not to exert extraordinary efforts to rescue him, according to a former senior defence official who was involved in the matter.
Instead, the US government pursued negotiations to get him back over the following five years of his captivity - a track that led to his release over the weekend.
6. State houses in pricey suburbs empty and deteriorating
51 Norfolk St in Ponsonby has sat empty for nearly a year. Photo / Dean Purcell
State-owned houses in some of Auckland's most expensive suburbs have been left unoccupied and "deteriorating" for up to 18 months.
Neighbours of the derelict buildings contacted the Herald following our story about the country's most expensive state house, 38 Takitimu St in Orakei, which has sat empty since September, 2012.
7. New Apple Mac features unveiled
Apple senior vice president of software engineering Craig Federighi. Photo / AP
Apple's Mac operating system is getting a new design and better ways to exchange files, while new features in the software for iPhones and iPads include one for keeping tabs on your health.
Find out all the details here.
8. Video catches Rolf Harris in 'lapse of memory'
Rolf Harris. Photo / AP
Rolf Harris has been accused of deliberately lying to the jury in his child sex trial after video emerged of him at a celebrity sporting event in Cambridge in 1978.
The entertainer, who's charged with groping a teenage girl in Cambridge in the mid-1970s, last week insisted he'd never been to city until three or four years ago. But the jury today was shown newly-uncovered footage of the Australian participating in Star Games in 1978 at Jesus Green in Cambridge.
9. Jono and Ben - and Graham too
Ben Boyce
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Kiwi TV pranksters Ben Boyce and Jono Pryor boosted their audience by millions when they gate-crashed the award-winning The Graham Norton Show, and tried to impress Hollywood guests Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt.
The Jono and Ben at Ten pair each featured on the popular red-chair segment of the UK talk show, with Boyce lasting longer on the chair than his co-host Pryor.
10. Police solve Google Earth 'axe murder'
Police investigated this Google Earth shot showing an 'axe murder'. Photo / Google Earth
What would you do if you saw a man brandishing a pick-axe handle standing above a lifeless body in a backstreet? Hopefully, you would call the police, as an alarmed member of the public did after seeing this scene on Google Street View.
The camera car recorded the disturbing scene from different angles as it travelled down Giles Street in Leith, Edinburgh, showing a man apparently being attacked from a distance and his assailant walking away from the scene.
But police who traced the assailant to a car repair shop in the road were relieved to discover it was a well-timed prank by two mechanics.
- nzherald.co.nz, NZ Herald, APNZ, AAP, AP
