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'Only buy what you need' - supemarket plea to Auckland shoppers

Customers are urged to be considerate 'so everyone gets their fair share when they shop'.

Horror chainsaw accident: MP bounces back from disaster

'Pretty rural bloke' who broke his neck is now ACC spokesman.

Builder insolvency to cost creditors $698,000

A slew of problems, some pandemic-related, seem to have struck another builder.

How four retailers helped drive retail sales to record $1.7b

$200m of sales made in December alone.

Real estate agent numbers slow in latest half-year as market turns

More people unlikely to get decent income in real estate, expert says.

$200m Mission Bay shop, apartment, cinema plan rejected

Business has a 60% landholding in seaside town centre.

'Not in my back yard': Auckland residents fight housing intensification plans

Neighbours want to stop 467 new houses in Orewa and 81 in Beach Haven.

Nightmare before Christmas: IRD owed $1.1m, creditors $460k - what to do?

Troubles hit another builder - just before Christmas.

Summer questions: See opportunities in challenges

'Now is the time for preparation and planning,' Leonie Freeman says.

$20k fine for drunk port digger driver

Drunk digger driver who tipped his vehicle had to be hauled out of trouble by a crane.

NZ's busiest housing developer holding $152.4m of investor funds longer

"Adverse market conditions" cited in letters to wholesale investors

Retirement village law under spotlight for potential reform

Probe comes following widespread calls for change in the sector.

FMA suspends The Property Crowd licence for non-compliance

Business 'has a poor understanding of its regulatory obligations'.

Redundancies climb: Developer goes from 204 to 125 staff

Business adjusting to coping with slower demand.

House prices, building costs stall $300m retirement village plans

As retirement village stocks get hammered, huge Parnell project stalled.

Boaties ‘devastated’ by decision allowing $300m+ Bayswater Marina project

"The only significant North Shore marina" - opponents fight back.