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Peeling paint, ancient wallpaper and a tumbledown shed have not put off an Auckland buyer, who paid $1.1 million for a century-old Ponsonby shack.The three-bedroom villa at 157 John St had been a treasured family home for decades...

A three-level historic central Auckland building, featuring the ornate 19th century frontage of the city's Freemasons Hall, which was constructed in 1881 for £3500, is being offered for sale as a bare shell ready for interior redevelopment...

An 8.5ha block of bare land is for sale in the Central Otago township of Lake Hawea about 17 kilometres north of Wanaka.The largely rectangular block at 195 Lakeview Terrace is being marketed for sale through Todd Soper of Bayleys...

A relatively new ground floor office unit, within a mixed development of commercial and residential units, is for sale in Auckland's popular city fringe suburb of Grey Lynn."The unit is available with vacant possession, so it represents...

Auckland's co-working office space sector is about to get a major international injection, as revealed in Bayleys fourth annual co-working report, the first to start tracking trends in the sector in 2016.The US$2.6 billion (NZ$3.97...

First-home buyers are being "cruelly" denied the chance to buy houses at a time of record low interest rates and plateauing prices because of rules forcing them to save enormous deposits.That's the opinion of Century 21 national...

New drone footage from Auckland's City Rail Link takes a dramatic dive from above surrounding hotel and office towers down around 14m below ground into the cavernous subterranean hole.Work on the city end of the $4.4 billion project...

"Land value is going to appreciate when it is close to centralised areas and transport systems," says Mark Schiele, the CEO of Oyster Property Group. He says these fundamentals drive commercial property investment and location remains...

The great kiwi DIY building tradition is thriving according to two experts who say people don't need to be licensed builders to put up the new Bunnings flatpack homes although the retailer is standing by its recommendation that licensed...

NZX-listed Kiwi Property Group is moving ahead with plans for its south Auckland greenfields site in a region expected to grow from about 193,000 people to 353,000 in 20 years' time.The business, which owns property valued at $3.2...

A century-old waterfront Auckland property is back on the market, 12 months after being sold.However, in the interim, the new owners of the derelict villa on St Marys Rd have managed to gain resource consent to demolish the 119-year-old...

Demand from major retailers and design changes have resulted in Kiwi Property spending an extra $35 million expanding its Sylvia Park shopping centre in Auckland.In its full-year results presentation posted on the NZX, the property...

A giant crane's apparently unusual angle on an Auckland building site startled one observer this morning who claimed the structure had fallen over - but he was wrong.The owner of the Mt Wellington property where the crane has been...

Qualified or licensed builders are needed to supervise work on construction sites where Bunnings' new flat-pack homes are rising and, despite being sold by a national retail chain, the products are no DIY dream.The business announced...

Diversified major listed real estate investor and Sylvia Park mall owner Kiwi Property has just announced it pushed up annual profit for the March year by 15 per cent, reporting $138m.Kiwi made $120.1m for the year to March 31,...

Flatpack homes have taken off with a hiss and a roar in New Zealand, however, one property commentator does not believe they are the future for inner-city living.In the last year, Bunnings Trade has sold more than 50 of the two-bedroom...

Eight tenanted freehold titles, leased by 12 retailers paying over $4.1 million in total annual rent, are for sale as a package or individually in the Westgate Shopping Centre 17km northwest of Auckland City."The portfolio's size...

Two South Auckland industrial properties and another in West Auckland are featured for sale in Barfoot & Thompson Commercial's latest Insite portfolio.In Penrose a well-located two-level corner property built in the mid1980s and...

Impulse buys don't always turn out perfectly, but+ Elizabeth and Friedhelm Sommer have got it right more than once. They did it with their first New Zealand home, and more recently with the clifftop home they built at 324 Pinecrest...

Ask most Aucklanders to find Pipimea Head on a map and they'd be scratching their heads. But hundreds pass it every day on the corner at the end of Mission Bay and at the turn of last century, was the site of the Kohimarama Wharf.Peter...