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Property Insider: Contentious retirement village survey, who wants $500k+ from failed builder

More than 300 NZ retirement villages and 71 operators ranked according to best practice.

Retirement company boss explains how they lifted profit in a housing downturn

Wood, insulation and carpet price rises are limited or capped to de-risk building jobs.

Global house prices rebound as economists predict turning point

Financial Times: In most industrialised countries, nominal prices grew in third quarter.

Revaluations boost retirement giant Summerset Group's bottom-line profit

CEO Scott Scoullar: 'We withstood challenges and continued to grow.'

ELE group collapse: Receivers’ report puts claims at $12.3m - who's owed money?

Buildhub, another labour hire business, had 60-70 staff. They were all sacked on Friday.

Property Insider: Heartbreak from The Ridge apartment purchase

From apartment hell to apartment opening: The Ridge and The Greenhouse span the spectrum.

Big profit hit for NZ's largest listed retirement company

Market conditions, the phasing of new main buildings take a toll on the business.

What will it take to fix Fletcher Building?

'All they did was inject another level of risk ... the CEO is not the problem here.'

'Immensely challenging' - Mitre 10 head office bosses on problems paying suppliers

'Interfacing between new and legacy systems while we transition to our new platform.' CEO

What Fletcher Building might declare in half-year result next week

Gearing could be at the top end of the range and dividends to shareholders could drop.

'Living hell': Owners of The Ridge apartments try to sell entire building

Seven-level block with 60 car parks advertised 'as is': apartment owners try to exit.

Compass Homes Franklin in liquidation, creditors want money

Grant Reynolds appointed. He is also the liquidator of other Compass building businesses.

East Coast lost 10 metres of shoreline from Cyclone Gabrielle

Effects of Cyclone Gabrielle leave East Coast with highest erosion levels in decades.

The value of financial assets owned by 10 big post-settlement iwi

Asset returns decreased and half the iwi reported financial losses.

Property Insider: Apartment ‘hell’ in new series; magic behind early highway fix; Chinese exodus

Owners spent about $15m trying to fix The Ridge apartments: it's stripped out, empty.

The prominent Herne Bay residents opposing Watercare’s sewer plans

Business people, investors and many others cite reasons to stop sewer project proceeding.