6+ day, 11+ hour ago   (284+ words) A familiar sign of summer in Hastings will be absent this year; there will be no hanging flower baskets in the city centre, Flaxmere and Mahora. There will be no baskets of flowers hanging from buildings and shop verandas in…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (350+ words) Residential home values in Hastings have dropped by close to one-20th in year-on-year reporting from state-owned valuation agency Quotable Value. In a report on the quarter to the end of August it said the average home value in Hastings was…...

6+ day, 12+ hour ago   (558+ words) Advertorial by The Housing Foundation Housing Foundation is a housing trust providing shared ownership opportunities, supporting first home buyers into affordable homes who may otherwise be locked out of the market. This content was prepared by Housing Foundation and is…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (716+ words) Treatment of real estate agent outrageous The treatment of Janet Dixon by the Real Estate Authority and Real Estate Tribunal is outrageous. I write as a former member of the Real Estate Agents Licensing Board, the forerunner to the present…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (980+ words) A 23-apartment development at Arthur St in Ellerslie collapsed in 2023. It has since been finished and put on sale at the instruction of lenders trying to recoup more than $90 million they lent to the project. Auckland apartments caught up in…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (666+ words) A real estate agent on the verge of losing her licence after being denied an exemption from a compulsory Māori tikanga course says if she had her time again, she would still refuse to do it. “It’s totally irrelevant to…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (482+ words) For more than 12 years, the ladies at the Rotorua Curtainbank have mended, stitched and prepared curtains for locals in need. They take referrals from local organisations about helping people living in cold, damp homes, some with only sheets over the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1563+ words) Real estate agent Janet Dickson has lost her bid to get an exemption from doing a Māori tikanga course, which was part of compulsory professional development. A real estate agent who refused to complete a Māori tikanga course, arguing it…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (708+ words) Finished two months early in July, five levels high and the newest building to rise at Parnell’s The Foundation, Abbott Residences welcomed its first occupants last month. This is one of New Zealand’s highest-spec retirement buildings, costing $200 million and wearing…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (765+ words) Graham Wilkinson, Generus Group is developing the rest of this property opposite the Auckland War Memorial Museum. Video \ Jason Dorday National pledges lower student loan repayments for graduates staying here, with new penalties on Kiwis overseas. Video / NZ Herald Can…...