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Online building products platform inks $35m capital raise

Milot Zeqiri and Brittany Gribben co-founded ArchiPro in 2014.

Boss blames poor reception for sacking worker by text

Boss sacks worker by text after accusations of serious misconduct.

Revealed: The new buyers of landmark Auckland property

Couple behind purchase of prominent site revealed; what are they planning for it?

Stalled townhouse project cost developer extra $500,000

Developer complains about neighbours parking vehicles to stop trucks entering site.

Franchising in NZ worth almost $37b - and growing

New Zealand is the most franchised country in the world per capita.

'Embarrassing': Developers on Kāinga Ora property problems

Building houses overseas and shipping them here not seen as sensible by some.

Watch: Fletcher raising the ground at Three Kings quarry

Around 200,000 truck-loads of soil raised the 15.1ha quarry floor by 10m to 15m.

Cost blowout, delays hit 21-unit state housing project

Kāinga Ora is sticking by its decision to go modular and with overseas builders.

Ho Chi Minh City to Northcote: 182 modular units planned for state land

The TLC site is beside Kāinga Ora's Tonar St site where the builder failed last year.

The missing $300k: Families and tradies left in lurch by company collapse

Tradies and others who worked on Xmas Day are yet to be paid.

It's wholesale: Property developers' new money source

If it's not the bank, then syndicate? But now wholesale schemes have followed that.

'Toilet paper syndrome': Builders panic buying gib board

Signature Homes and Fletcher Building have acknowledged extremely high demand.

Fletcher Building forecast: Is an upgrade on the cards?

Analysts are relatively upbeat about what could be announced next week.

Tararua businesses struggling amid supply shortages and delays

Businesses are trying to cope with demand amid shortages and delays of supplies.

Half of first-home buyers could be in mortgage distress when rates rise

The warning comes from a Reserve Bank briefing to Finance Minister Grant Robertson.

Commercial builders launch $210m apartment venture

Renting is such big business now that it commands its own development sector.