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Millions owed: Director has second modular building company collapse within months
Cabin and shed-maker collapse leaves almost $1m in debt to more than 70 creditors.

Scarbro liquidator: Building sites being transferred back to customers
Information about the failure due out on Monday, explaining the fate of around 60 staff.

Record crane count reflects busy building sector
Queenstown had the biggest increase: crane numbers shot from eight last year to 15 now.

Giant Sydney-HQ real estate chain coming here
Local manager says agency looking at up to 20 offices in New Zealand.

Compact housing likely in another Kāinga Ora purchase
Housing agency still mulling plans for the site but says it’s ideal for compact homes.

US-inspired Carlaw Park Student Village takes off
Old school dorms out: Uni's new megablock took design tips from students.

'Wild West': Big housing project a return to bad city planning, councillor says
The councillor believes the application should be publicly notified to give people a say.

Project Auckland: Resilience key in housing - Kāinga Ora
The recent floods have made Kāinga Ora determined to push on with future-proofed housing.

Trad front, rad back: Grey Lynn house valued at $5.6m for sale
'But a lot was done on the renovation. I spent too much on that - over $2.5m.'

‘Stoked’: Relocatable homes arrive for some Tairāwhiti cyclone victims
Whānau displaced by Cyclone Gabrielle received a welcome boost this week.

Tūwharetoa housing strategy foundations taking shape; first affordable rentals up
Five of the 14 brand-new homes destined for Te Iwiheke Place in Tūrangi are in operation.

Thousands of state homes sit empty, maintenance budget up $410m
State homes are being brought to Healthy Homes standards - but some are empty.

Scarbro was building 89 apartments for state's Kāinga Ora when it failed
Another major building firm calls in liquidators.

Find flatmates, grow your own veges: Grim advice for new homeowners after OCR rise
Rise in the official cash rate tipped to heap big pressure on Hawke's Bay housing market.

Big builder in liquidation after series of adverse events
Four big problems have devastated the company's ability to trade.

Pasifika bearing the brunt of New Zealand’s housing crisis
New Zealand is one of the most expensive places to buy a home.

More than 60 new homes for Hastings in latest Kāinga Ora project
There are plans for more than 60 new homes.

Taieri residents alarmed over property ‘red zoning’
Landowners stunned to discover building or development could be banned.

Neighbour takes on property developer seeking to cut down trees
Clash over boundary trees: Tall shelterbelt in residential area neither fence nor hedge.

Insane reason Aussie mum failed rental inspection
'Are they allowed to say that, to say, 'Tidy up [your] son’s toys?'

18 months to build pensioner flats as housing shortage deepens in Tararua
The flats were expected to have been finished by July, but are still not ready.

Hell in paradise: The luxury holiday hotspot where locals are sleeping in cars
The rental situation in New Zealand's tourism hotspot is growing more desperate.

Largest public housing development plans for Northland unveiled
A new public housing development for Whangārei will provide 95 homes for people in need.

Brutal rental market: Harrowing tales of the hunt for a home
What it's like living in a garage: 'I never imagined I’d end up like this.'

Unhappy tenant awarded $9000 over freezing, noisy, unlawful flat
The tenant was entitled to quiet enjoyment of her home without disturbance - tribunal.

Big southeast Auckland rezoning application in for 3000+ new homes
The site is partly occupied by the Rydges Formosa Golf Course and Resort.

Marama Royal: The resurgence in our population has been a miraculous recovery for my people
Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei chair Marama Royal outlines the iwi housing pathway

Wānaka developer insolvent, $440k owed to IRD
IRD appears on a statement of affairs, owed $448,000 as a preferential creditor.

'I wouldn’t even put my Rotties in what I found': CEO's blunt view of homeless hotel conditions
Lifewise boss Haehaetu Barrett spoke at National Māori Housing Conference.