Building

Buyer beware: The runaway price of building materials is shattering the illusion of a fixed price housing project.

A shortage of materials and delivery delays are shifting the ground under home… Audio

The escalating costs of building materials are jeopardising a first home buyer's $20,000 Kiwisaver grant.

The speed with which costs are rising is pressuring builders to invoke escalation clauses… Audio

Some factories will be allowed to fire up under level four in Auckland to help combat a nationwide shortage of building materials.

The Government will cherry-pick essential building product… Audio

Builders are refusing to offer fixed prices due to the escalating cost of construction materials - which are running out. Mortgage brokers say banks favour fixed price builds, and getting a loan could… Audio

Builders are refusing to offer fixed prices on jobs because of escalating prices and a critical shortages of materials.

Mortgage brokers says banks favour fixed price builds, so getting finance could… Audio

Construction costs have risen at a pace not seen for nearly a decade, as anyone building or renovating a house will know. So what are the implications of this for house insurance? According to… Audio

Scott Brown's youtube HOW TO videos are helping do-it-yourselfers around the country and overseas. It's a family affair, with partner, Jessica Bell's ideas and creativity reflected in the tutorials… Audio

A renowned architect has come up with a plan to turn a former leper colony into a scenic managed isolation facility. Michael O'Sullivan has designed a prefabricated pod that he reckons would be a big… Audio

A group of leaky homeowners have been left with more bills to pay - after their long-running class action against the cladding giant James Hardie failed.

A court judgement has found the 144… Audio

Wellington's largest office building is considerably emptier today as more than 1000 staff stay away.

IRD staff have been told to work from home until the 17-storey Asterton Building on Featherston… Audio

Authorities are pausing search and rescue operations at the partially-collapsed building in Surfside, Florida to prepare for the likely demolition of what remains of the Champlain Towers.

At least 24… Audio

The building boom is in full force - but with it comes an ugly side effect. Construction waste is an increasing problem.  Audio

Our panellists look at the new Princess Diana memorial statue, why the war on drugs never mentions cigarettes, the Oranga Tamarik investigation, and whether New Zealand can really afford to keep its… Audio

To Miami, where a sixth day of searching at the site of the collapsed seaside apartment building has revealed no further survivors.

There are still 150 people unaccounted for, while 11 bodies have… Audio

The prospect of finding any more survivors in the rubble of the collapsed apartment building in Miami appears to be fading following a fruitless day for rescuers.

The painstaking process has… Audio

It’s not a great time to be young right now. But has Covid crushed what was left of our dreams? 

Yeah. Nah.  Audio