House price inflation stalls as lending restrictions bite: QV
By Pattrick Smellie April 5 (BusinessDesk) - New lending restrictions imposed late last year appear to be behind a slowdown in the pace of house price inflation in the first three months of this year, but the impact may not last. The latest QV House Price Index from governm...
Eight-year RMA reform saga enters home straight with GM carve-out
By Pattrick Smellie April 4 (BusinessDesk) - The National Party's long-stalled second round of Resource Managment Act reforms returned to Parliament this afternoon, revealing the detail of a final concession to the Maori Party to allow local authorities to declare their region...
'Deeply favourable cocktail' putting Tiwai Pt aluminium smelter in the black
By Pattrick Smellie April 4 (BusinessDesk) - The Rio Tinto-controlled aluminium smelter at Southland's Tiwai Point is benefiting from a "deeply favourable cocktail" of factors that have returned it to profitability and could prompt a restart of its small, fourth production 'po...
Bluescope sweetensTaharoa ironsands mine sale with $51M cash payment
By Pattrick Smellie April 4 (BusinessDesk) - Former timber industry lobbyist-turned-tourism entrepreneur Wayne Coffey will take management control of the Taharoa ironsands mining lease on Maori land near the Glenbrook steel mill following completion of a deal with New Zealand...
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