A survey of listed property investments has found New Zealand's companies and trusts being outgunned by their Australian counterparts.

Possibly the last and best piece of vacant land in Auckland's blue chip industrial belt has been put up for sale.

Q. I am the owner of a number of commercial premises and often run into problems with tenants when they leave the premises and either take everything, like the carpet and light fittings, or leave unwanted items behind.

What is a tenant entitled to take when the lease ends and they leave the premises?

Can they take the fit-out? What happens to anything that is left

Some North Shore immigrants are using supposed language barriers to profit from illegal house renovations, says the council.

Up to 500 houses and apartments could be built near Saxton Field and neighbouring farmland as part of a south Nelson rezoning plan, according to a confidential Tasman District Council report.

The average price of a home in Auckland is now more than $400,000, 16.5 percent higher than the same time last year.

A guaranteed way to make waves in the financial planning business is to discuss how advisers get paid for the work they do.

Q. Many people would agree with your "house built on an old tip site" buyer, that one should carry out careful checks before a major purchase. But why stop with the council?

To be really safe you should also have structural, plumbing, drainage, electrical, groundwater, geological reports and probably a cultural audit would be wise too (though this may be no longer necessary "po

Just who should be part of the Waitara Leaseholders Association's (WLA) legal proceedings against the New Plymouth District Council was sorted out in the High Court in New Plymouth yesterday.

Timaru's booming property market is hitting first home buyers where it hurts –in their wallets.

Retirement Commissioner Diana has made it clear that she wants to see a self-regulatory regime that covers all advisers in New Zealand implemented urgently.

ANZ Bank is in the process of setting up a mortgage selling franchise network in Australia.

The High Court in Hamilton has found Waikato Real Estate Institute president Mark Winter did not cause Putaruru farmer Herman Jans humiliation and loss of dignity when he withheld information about the mortgagee sale on Jans' farm.

The NSW government has shocked the property industry by imposing a 2.25 per cent tax on the sale of investment properties at a time when the housing market is already suffering a downturn.

Whangarei district ratepayers could face a 5 per cent rates increase.

Police are trying to find the landlord of a North Shore property where a 25-year-old Asian student was allegedly held at gunpoint for 48 hours last week.