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NZ projects short-listed for World Architecture awards

Stadium, university, retail, home, spa, bach, marae, office buildings are all on the list.

Giant new 1.7ha warehouse: Cotton On expands in NZ

Originally opened here in 2006. Now has 1000-plus staff in around 100 stores in NZ.

NZ house building costs drop for first time in 12 years: 'eased the pressure'

Decline followed a huge surge in building consents as well as a post-pandemic rush.

Mark Cairns pulls out of 'farcical' process for Fletcher Building chairperson

Fletcher Building is missing key leaders.

'Remote' building inspections bring pluses and minuses, industry leader says

John Gray urges 'greater consequences' for lawbreakers as the Govt removes red tape.

District Court case: What is the definition of an equestrian centre?

Application for charges to be dismissed: Was the property operating illegally?

‘Five straight months of negative growth’: Auckland house values continue down

Chilly weather matches a particularly cold Auckland market for house sales and values.

Brown v Bishop on housing ‘flood’; Mayor’s wharf dream inches closer

Auckland Council versus Government on freeing up land on the outskirts. Who will win?

'Brakes' go on 110 Kāinga Ora homes in 'priority' city as hundreds still promised

'It had to slow up really, they couldn’t keep building at the same pace,' says a builder.

Builders want government help to smooth troughs of construction industry

While consents are down 29%, more trained builders will be needed soon in Northland.

Queenstown’s Westwood Group buys Ponsonby Central

'Considerable similarities between Ponsonby Central and Steamer Wharf in Queenstown.'

Gloomy business survey sparks rate cut hopes

Latest Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion shows a downbeat outlook across all sectors.

New building consents take a tumble

New dwelling consents well down biggest cities from a year before.

Cartel ran 'virtually uninterrupted' for nearly 20 years

Cleaner did a dirty deal, prices dropped by up to 30% after cartel arrangement broke down.

Property Insider: Insolvent modular apartment-builder owes $51.7m

A modular housing project has a big financial fallout, liquidators picking up the pieces.

Legal claim launched alleging defects in New Lynn's Merchant Quarter: no hearing yet

Statement of claim lodged, no date has yet been set for a hearing in court.