Phillip Matthews is standing down as chief executive of the Financial Planners and Insurance Advisers Association.

Wellington

The residential building sector is continuing to cool, with official figures showing a 15% fall in consents for new houses and apartments in July compared with last year.

Anita Bell is best known as Australia's favourite debt busting mum and will be visiting the North Island on a whirlwind tour in association with local NZ Property Investors’ Associations.

Finance company Lombard is planning to list on the New Zealand Stock Exchange through a backdoor listing.

Pacific Retail Group (PRG) says it is close to a deal on the sale of its consumer finance group.

Hawkes Bay

Tauranga

Auckland

The Real Estate Institute of New Zealand’s analysis of the real estate market for July, 2005.

The changing face of the New Zealand mortgage industry leads off the September issue of the New Zealand Property Magazine.