Fletcher Residential has applied to Auckland Council to have the Three Kings quarry re-zoned for apartments up to 10 levels high in the deep pit.

A new $17 million health and fitness centre at private Epsom girls' school St Cuthbert's College opens today.

A councillor has called it "pure madness" to spend $157.4 million on the council's new central Auckland premises.

The market for small low-cost houses by commercial group builders is gathering pace, as cash-strapped Aucklanders squeeze in and up.

Buyers of hundreds of new Auckland waterfront apartments will escape the leasehold ground rent trap.

Auckland's mega motorway tunnelling machine is powering its way below Waterview with only about 300 metres to go before reaching daylight early next month.

NZ building consents rose at a modest 0.1pc pace in July reflecting a drop in the number of consents issued in Canterbury and a pick up in Auckland.

The country's busiest house builder, which expects to put up a third more homes this year, has welcomed the Government's KiwiSaver boost announced on Sunday.

Auckland International Airport's vast Mangere land bank rose in value by $734 million between June 2011 and June 2014.

McConnell Dowell Constructors is drilling an underground tunnel north of Auckland, from the Watercare Pump Station at Orewa to subdivisions north of Grand Drive.

National is promising grants for first-home buyers on modest incomes will be doubled - to up to $20k for a couple buying a newly built home - if it is re-elected next month.

New Zealand's biggest builder is about to start a $40 million makeover at its own global headquarters, after buying its headquarters back from Tauranga's Carrus Corporation.

A Melbourne engineer with some of London's biggest commercial and residential building projects under his belt is Fletcher Building's new housing boss.

New Zealand's biggest listed company is planning a five-fold surge in house building, concentrating mainly on Auckland, where it is negotiating to buy a big site in the city's northwest.

Ports of Auckland said it had reached its goal of achieving a 12 per cent return on equity two years ahead of schedule with a net profit of $74 million for the year to June 30, up 90 per cent on the previous year.

New Zealand's biggest NZX-listed business is forecast to declare a $355 million to $366 million normalised annual net profit after tax tomorrow, up on last year's $326 million.

Grant Florance, as head of the Certified Builders Association of New Zealand, helps to ensure building a dream home doesn't become a nightmare.

The need for skilled engineers and construction workers continues to grow in Christchurch and elsewhere in the New Zealand economy.

Financial contract negotiations and arrangements for New Zealand's biggest new infrastructure job have been completed.

Construction industry organisation Certified Builders has launched a new set of plans for houses, saying it could save people around $10,000.

About 100 leaky building victims whose claims were rejected because they were beyond a 10-year threshold may now get help to fix their homes.

Auckland's CBD has cranes on its horizon again, but not enough to resolve a critical office-space squeeze

The $30 billion rebuild of post-earthquake Christchurch will race ahead if local firms team up with British firms experienced in major construction projects.

The ex-wife of a former bankrupt property developer has gone back to court in an attempt to revive her multi-million dollar claim over relationship assets.

Construction helped to boost the Auckland economy by 2.6 per cent during the March year but unemployment is still high and wage growth remains stagnant.

Changes are afoot at Mt Wellington's new 107-unit Thompson Park housing estate after the former main lender was replaced some weeks ago.