Free Primavera 50 Vespa motor scooters and helmets are being given away with six "affordable" Mt Eden one-bedroom apartments, for sale from $430,000.

The boss of the $850 million Transmission Gully project worked on one of Queensland's biggest motorway jobs before shifting here.

New Zealand shares rose yesterday, paced by Genesis Energy, Contact Energy and Mighty River Power in a relief rally as Meridian Energy's instalment came due.

Kiwi Property Group's annual earnings increased 4.5 per cent as it seeks to raise $151.9 million to expand Sylvia Park.

Construction is due to resume at the weekend on the giant Waterview motorway interchange project after the discovery of faulty concrete forced it to a halt a fortnight ago.

A crackdown on tradies' cash jobs is yielding "outstanding" results, says the tax department.

Fletcher Building subsidiary Fletcher Living has just won a huge Government contract to build 191 new Christchurch houses.

New Zealand has 72 large fixed cranes up, including 29 in Auckland and 23 in Christchurch.

Investigations are being carried out into weak, faulty Firth concrete supplied to the $1.4b Waterview Connection.

Faulty concrete has now been discovered in The University of Auckland's $200m city campus science redevelopment and expansion.

The Canterbury rebuild's imminent conclusion and business sales will push New Zealand's biggest listed business to make operating earnings of between $650 million to $690 million - the lower end of....

An investment company that failed to build nearly $10m worth of new homes has finally succumbed to creditors' pressure and entered liquidation.

China Construction Bank New Zealand is on a recruiting drive as it pushes for a slice of the growing market facilitating trade between this country and the world's second-biggest economy.

Work on up to 35 residential and commercial projects will need to be redone after faulty concrete was supplied and used in building work.

NZ's biggest listed company has revealed how one of its businesses made faulty and weak concrete and sent it out to many building sites, including the Waterview project.

Auckland tradies are being targeted by the Inland Revenue Department in a bid to recoup unpaid income tax.

New Zealand's biggest leaky building payout points to serious flaws in our system, according to an industry expert.

The 150 owners of the 12-level Nautilus tower in Orewa were awarded the payout in a decision released yesterday by Justice Murray Gilbert.

Spark has fallen from being the NZX's largest listed company by market capitalisation, valued at $6.51 billion in February, to the third largest at $5.17 billion.

Amendments to the Construction Contracts Act are due to be passed in Parliament soon and to come into effect from July 1.

Developers who have been sitting on Auckland land earmarked for fast-tracked housing are being warned to start building or lose their special privileges.

Site enabling works on New Zealand's biggest new infrastructure project, Transmission Gully, begin this month.

A fight has erupted over one of New Zealand's biggest leaky building payouts, as 253 owners of a North Shore apartment/hotel tower battle one another.

One of the country's largest off-site housing prefabricators, eHome NZ, owes secured creditors $13.9 million.

Some of the biggest buildings of the new-look Christchurch are being put together virtual piece by virtual piece, thanks to remarkable 3D technology.

Massey University is planning to spend more than $130 million in the next year to double the student capacity of its Albany campus.

The McConnell family own construction company Hawkins. John McConnell talks to Jennifer Dann.