The long-vacant ex-Auckland Star site between Fort St and Shortland St could soon get a carpark.

Fletcher Residential has approval to create 479 housing lots or sections in seven stages on the Manukau Golf Course.

NZ's largest construction company will bring some of the world's biggest builders here for the $4 billion-plus new public private partnership contracts it wants to win.

The construction of the motorway interchange at the northern end of Auckland's new Waterview connection has moved a step closer to completion.

Building activity slowed in the final three months of 2013 as non-residential work dropped for a second quarter.

A house construction rebound here and in Australia, the earthquake rebuild and cost-cutting will boost operating earnings Fletcher Building's interim result.

The New Zealand Institute of Economic Research expects the economy to grow 3 per cent this year.

A lawyer who grossly overcharged his former golfing buddy has been struck off the Law Society's register, and ordered to repay almost $500,000 in overcharged fees.

Some Aucklanders say a new skyscraper in downtown Auckland is a blot on the landscape. Others think it's a landmark building that will revitalise the area. Anne Gibson reports

A retirement village developer spending $500 million in Auckland says building in the city is hard because Auckland Council is extremely slow to process consent applications.

Building consent for New Zealand's tallest new skyscraper could be granted next year if all goes to plan.

Plans for New Zealand's tallest skyscraper, to rise in the heart of Auckland, have been unveiled today.

Money that Mainzeal Property & Construction owed to its staff, a trading bank and Inland Revenue has been largely repaid.

Change of venue for half-year figures reflects 'significant operations in Australia'.

Community leader says that scale of Three Kings development will leave locals 'aghast'.

A boost in new apartment consents led to an 11 per cent rise in the number of new dwellings consented in November 2013, according to Statistics NZ.

Legal action against Carter Holt Harvey for price fixing in the Auckland timber market is worrying industry heads, who believe revelations of the activity could tarnish the whole building trade.

Legal advice might be needed before the Building and Construction Minister can reveal a list of 14 potentially lethal buildings which owners are refusing to have assessed.

The new house up the road was ready to move into and the beginnings of a front lawn were visible over a rickety picket fence less than waist-high.

Balmoral residents and their local MP Phil Goff are angry about plans for a large expansion of The Warehouse.

Australia's economic growth isn't losing pace and might have even picked up a little as the non-mining sectors of the economy start to recover.

May 12, 2013, marked the fifth anniversary of the Wenchuan earthquake in the Sichuan Province of China.

Tower cranes have once again begun to bristle on Auckland's skyline as the construction sector hits better times.

The house-building sector's rising fortunes have taken a tumble, with the latest Statistics New Zealand data showing the rate of increase slipping.

Len Brown wants his council to look more to public private partnership models to create new infrastructure, saying it could relieve the financial burden on ratepayers and taxpayers.