New Zealand residential building consents fell 4.1 per cent in June as construction intentions in Canterbury tapered off.

Owners of a huge apartment complex are about to endure their second round of building repairs, and taxpayers could be up for half that bill.

Part of the Ministry of Education's lawsuit against Carter Holt Harvey has been thrown out but the bulk of the litigation remains.

Buildings at a relatively new Auckland school are about to be demolished in one of the biggest casualties of the leaky building crisis.

A new $50 million dome-shaped silo for storing cement is due to spring up at Ports of Auckland next week or the week after.

One of NZ's biggest off-site housing manufacturers is now in liquidation, but creditors have hope of getting paid.

Initial geotechnic testing has been carried out on the site for the 52-level NDG Auckland Centre and construction might begin next year.

The head of New Zealand's biggest insulation manufacturer welcomed the Government's decision to require all tenanted properties to have ceiling and underfloor insulation.

Auckland needs to squeeze in and up and move to having more suburban units and apartments to meet buyers' growing financial constraints and limitations.

A council body has four months to produce a viable film studio plan at Hobsonville Pt or the land will be used for housing.

Aucklanders are divided on either side of the movies versus home debate that’s been raging over a prime piece of land in Hobsonville Pt.

One of New Zealand's largest privately owned elderly-care, rest home and retirement village businesses is planning a $450 million to $500 million expansion.

A pre-fabricated housing business, which built four new multimillion dollar Auckland houses aims to build new places within only four weeks.

A second Kiwi engineer is working on the world's tallest new tower and the first kilometre-high building.

Two Auckland Council bodies are at loggerheads over whether 20ha of land at Hobsonville Pt should be used for housing or a film studio.

The Bunnings chain of hardware stores have been a great success story, but the chain is at risk of becoming a victim of its own success, writes Christopher Niesche.

A vast 155ha block of South Auckland land has been ear-marked for a 1800 new dwellings to help ease the city's housing crisis.

Building consents were static in May as dwindling demand in Auckland offset increased construction intentions in other parts of NZ.

If Housing NZ has its way, no one will be able to easily say 'that's state housing' - see its latest plans for new Auckland homes.

A Chinese couple have taken a novel approach to quickly building Auckland homes - using a crane to swing four new units into place over just two days.

From swimming pool fences to unauthorised construction work, three high-profile Aucklanders have appeared before the courts on a range of charges.

Len Brown is being urged by a senior councillor to accept a court ruling on controversial wharf extensions and instruct Ports of Auckland to do the same.

Nearly 6000 new apartments are set to be built across Auckland over the next three years, with most planned for suburban and city fringe areas, new research reveals.

More than 500 New Zealand leaky-home victims, whose places have been clad in James Hardie materials, could lodge legal action in Auckland in the next few weeks.

Company denies liability, awaits appeal result involving Ministry of Education.

The Government has fast-tracked the building of a further 1000 houses and apartments at Hobsonville Pt and about 300 of those will cost less than $550,000.

A Christchurch man is the second person in Canterbury to be convicted for carrying out plumbing work without authorisation within the last two weeks.

Government plans to fill vacant Crown land with houses are being lambasted by Labour as a fiasco after one of four would-be Auckland sites turned out to be largely council-owned.

Shoddy buildings are going up in Auckland with workers encountering serious problems and inspection fails at some sites.