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Insolvent Auckland joiner owes staff $138,000, creditors claim $1.7m

Inflation, labour shortage and pandemic cause anguish but new factory lease brings hope.

Slice of waterfront Wynyard Quarter for sale, ASB building could lose views

Sale could net cash-strapped council $36 million or more - property investor.

How rich-lister gained consent to fell pōhutakawa at $34m clifftop mansion

Council officer noted chasms and fissures around the cliff and an area close to the house.

Neighbours at war: Legal feud latest in dispute over $100m Viaduct hotel

Many overseas-based hotel room owners are pitched against Pandey businesses.

Construction firm collapses owing $2m, eight projects in limbo

Rising costs and falling prices claim another casualty.

Mega 422-unit retirement village faces opposition from AT, council

Council submissions cited 'significant concerns' about the plans, and potential flooding.

$34m Herne Bay mansion: Pōhutukawa felled just before Cyclone Gabrielle struck

Some bystanders mistakenly thought the trees fell from a landslip event.

Remuera retirement village block demolition: Residents push back on hospital plan

Some residents don't like the idea of having to live through any site development.

Construction crunch: More building firms fail, homeowners in the lurch

Peter Wolfkamp, Newstalk ZB’s resident builder worries about recent string of failures.

Another builder fails: Ex-TV presenter a client, nine sites abandoned

'All I wanted to do was build a home and income residence for retirement.' - client.

'Racist' post against Asian builders, major benefit boost & new poll favours Labour | Focus Morning Bulletin: 14 March, 2023

Influencer called out over comments about Asian builders, criticism mounts on the Government’s welfare boost and how the country’s tracking 28 days on from Cyclone Gabrielle in the latest New Zealand Herald headlines. Video / NZ Herald

Dismay as joinery firm with 28 staff folds after nearly 50 years

The building and construction sector dominates liquidations, accounting for 29 per cent.

Fletcher reveals shareholders plan class action over loss-making division

'There’s also the potential of no payout if Fletcher can defend it robustly.'

Watch: The Drawing Board episode 3

Derek travels to a small papakainga development in Rapaki with Perry Royal and Ngāti Whatua unveil plans to expand their ground-breaking multi-level papakainga development in Tamaki Makaurau. Video / Faultline Films. Made with funding from NZ on Air and Te Mangai Paho.

'Bombed out': Neighbours up in arms about half-finished apartment complex

Tough times for developers leaves Auckland street with unfinished eyesore, neighbours say.

Ten 'unfair' retirement village practices: Govt review under way

Practices a focus of Government review announced in December, due out this September.