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Failed Auckland housing developer owes creditors $40m

Delays, material shortages and pandemic-driven cost overruns blamed.

Locals oppose boatshed, ramp scheme for $22m Herne Bay home

'Massive thing will dominate the wee public bay, its foreshore and the Herne Bay coast.'

Biggest retail property deal of year: who paid $85.7m?

'Seven properties currently under contract, two further sales pending' - Whillans.

Art remake heartbreak: Fire wrecked NZICC glass 'forest' panels

'Hopefully, something can be done with the old ones. Maybe they can be ground up...'

Kiwi Property makes record sales at malls

Big jump in sales at Sylvia Park, LynnMall and The Base.

Focus: City Rail Link boss on opening date, dealing with AT and learning from overseas mistakes

City Rail Link CEO Sean Sweeney talks exclusively to Bernard Orsman inside the freshly completed rail tunnel on the project's opening date and how the team learned from mistakes made overseas. Video / NZ Herald

IRD, creditors chasing $19m from failed Rainbow childcare chain

Employees are owed about $640,000 as "worrying" ECE closure saga claims casualties.

Builder struck-off for keeping insurance deposits; clients in the lurch

Ben Jones took at least 20 deposits for insurance guarantees but didn't lodge them.

The Trusts budgets $40m expanding West Auckland outlets

Boutique pop-up bars, restaurant-led gastro pubs: walking distance from units, transport.

What landlords want to see in this week's Budget, but suspect they won't

398,000 bonds were lodged with Tenancy Services by February, up from 383,000 a year ago.

Our biggest house builder reveals 30% volume drop

Real irony: Now is a great time to build.

New data reveals where Auckland rents jumped by 7.2%

New insights from an agency managing 19,000 properties: What does it say?

Are retirement village stocks safe? Analyst on ComCom probe

'Level of concern amongst residents and advocates about some of the sector’s practices.'

First look: What's it like inside NZ's biggest build-to-rent project?

"We allow people to do decorating of their apartments. You’re allowed to bring your pets."

Anti-bird roosting measures in cladding of new $63m block

'Sloped the bottom of the cruciform indents at a 50-degree angle,': birds don't roost.

The $70m question: Why Ponsonby Central's owner is selling up

Andy Davies established the hub 11 years ago.