The owners of properties in Auckland's leaky Chancery shopping complex have won $3.4 million for repairs, now about halfway through.

A fully tenanted and renovated office building at 23 Union St, just off the motorway on the edge of the Auckland CBD, is being featured for sale.

A new tenant is moving into one of Auckland's best-known heritage buildings, one of only three remaining on the Freeman's Bay shoreline adjacent to the Viaduct Harbour.

British-born computer specialist Phil White is facing a mortgagee sale on his luxurious Auckland apartment because he has not made full mortgage repayments.

The early commercial strips of Karangahape Rd, Kingsland, Dominion Rd and Ponsonby Rd are under threat from the draft Unitary Plan, say heritage groups.

The woman behind a controversial $100 million waterfront hotel bid in Dunedin says she will compromise to secure a deal with the Dunedin City Council.

Precinct Properties New Zealand's $76 million ANZ Centre upgrade saw 22 office floors refurbished, making it the country's biggest building renovation.

The company bidding to build a $100 million waterfront hotel in Dunedin is taking its fight to the Environment Court.

One of Waitakere's largest lifestyle blocks, the 6.8ha Kiwi Valley Farm Park and Maze complex in Henderson Valley Rd, is being offered for sale.

The Commerce Commission has confirmed it will investigate a big Auckland car parking deal.

A mixed use site of over 4000sq m with consent already in place to build an apartment complex just two blocks from the main Otahuhu shopping strip is being marketed.

Two retail properties in the heart of the Mt Roskill shopping strip at the top of Dominion Rd are for auction, with one of them, at 1252 Dominion Rd, vacated by the Westpac Bank.

Developers are eying opportunities to build new Auckland hotels.

Major Auckland office block Swanson Towers could be in line for conversion into a hotel.

Auckland University has become New Zealand's largest real estate developer, with a $1 billion 10-year order book already well under way.

Brownfield sites - older and rundown industrial properties - are increas-ingly becoming the only option for businesses hoping to develop industrial premises in Auckland's more established industrial suburbs, says Justin Kean, director of research and capi

Ex-rich-lister Jamie Peters entered into a finance agreement on a luxury car at a time when he was unable to pay debts when they fell due, the High Court heard today.

Three fully leased freehold units on the ground floor of a new, architecturally designed two storey building in Jervois Road in Herne Bay.

Auckland city's oldest surviving hotel building, the Fitzroy Hotel built in 1854-55 on the corner of Wakefield St and Lyndock St.

Almost $650,000 from the sale of a boat that Jamie Peters had personally used ended up in a bank account which the ex-rich-lister accessed during his bankruptcy.

Former rich-lister Jamie Peters has told the High Court he "barely survived" using $80,000 from a friend's bank account.

The building sector is expecting a rise in fortunes as the economy recovers and the Canterbury rebuild gets into full swing about 2016.

The number of companies going into receivership has fallen but more businesses are wanting advice on how to avoid financial trouble.

A $76 million job - the country's biggest building makeover - last night won the Property Council's top award.

The house-building sector is experiencing its biggest surge in more than a decade as demand for new places.

Architects Jeff Fearon and Tim Hay of Fearon Hay have won NZ’s top award for architecture, from the NZ Institute of Architects for their work on the Imperial Buildings refurbishment and strengthening. Ross Healy of Phillimore Properties who owns the buildings had been more than impressed with the finished result. New Zealand Herald reporter Anne Gibson spoke with the winning team.

Controversial plans for a $100 million 27-level Dunedin hotel have been knocked back.