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Gib crisis: Is housing minister's taskforce making progress?
Taskforce established to investigate ways to resolve the plasterboard shortage.
Who wants $55.7m from failed Ormiston housing developer?
All up, 34 creditors claim from business involved in a 122-property project.
Ormiston housing project owes $55.7m: Developer blames vandalism, Covid, building costs
Creditors claim big-time as $85m Onehunga projects await buyers.
'Swiftest rise in a decade' as cost of building a new home soars
Steep surge in costs with no relenting anticipated for the rest of the year.
Construction site raids: 'Stressed' builders sleeping on-site to deter brazen thieves
Fears of organised crime and insider jobs as industry says crime on the rise.
Auckland area's 41 best new, refurbished buildings
All up, architects won prizes for 41 area projects - the work was seen as outstanding.
New study reveals NZ retirement village numbers and trends
The sector continues to see expansion.
Watch: 134-unit Auckland apartment block finished five months early
Spoiler alert: how this builder managed to avoid the Gib crisis. Look and learn.
$50b apartment sector reformed: What you need to know
"Know what you're getting into," says lawyer on apartments.
Lowest building sector confidence since Covid hit: Stagflation risk as profits slide
Survey points to high inflation and falling business activity - worst of both worlds.
Council selling 1.58ha in Avondale for planned development of 750 apartments
Avondale's regeneration "much needed and long overdue," says Mayor Phil Goff.
DDL Ellerslie apartment buyers anxious at delays, developer insists project progressing
Buyers concerned about progress on the site
Concern over caveats registered on title of troubled Ormiston property
Caveats potentially put blocks between the developer and all the home buyers.
Liam Dann: The vital industry NZ can't let collapse - and the reasons why
How the property sector fares through this tough cycle will be a real measure of progress.
Gib crisis: 'We're not gouging' - Fletcher CEO Ross Taylor
'We think we will take a hit as we come through this' - Hamish McBeath, Fletcher Building.
Stalled Ormiston development: Buyers fretting, sites sit 'dormant' - receivers
'They are playing mind games with poor gullible people,' says frustrated buyer.
Companies fined for making false building wrap claims
Product used to keep moisture out found to be not suitable.
Gib crisis: Commission probe into building sector out next month
Call for probe to address Winstone Wallboards' near-monopoly on plasterboard.
Gib crisis: Call for Fletcher chairman to resign
Strongly-worded letter sent to directors, calling for them all to stand again.
Gib crisis: Container Door gets 'overwhelming response'
Imported board more expensive than Gib, won't arrive till September.
Permanent rentals? New 32-unit central Auckland apartment block opens
Ockham's The Nix opens at Great North Rd, a block from Karangahape Rd.
Gib crisis: What happened at meeting between Fletcher chiefs and critics
Critics met Fletcher Building bosses to talk about the Gib crisis - with mixed results.
Gib crisis: Supply upped by 1 million square metres in next 3 months
Winstone to offer about 8 per cent rise in plasterboard supply.
Gib crisis: Council cuts back on red tape
Alternative wall lining is being approved on-site to get through supply crisis.
Gib crisis: Businesses rush to import alternative plasterboard
'We need to help as many companies as we can get through this' - Shane Brealey.
Gib crisis: Emergency meeting plea to allow rival products
Builders fight to break Gib maker's near monopoly on approved product.
Gib crisis: Fletcher reveals even they had to import Australian plasterboard
Fletcher bought ETEX board, deal ended but hopes for resumption soon.
Gib crisis: Struth, builder off to Australia for plasterboard
'Necessity is the mother of invention. Gib will lose ... a lot of loyalty.' - Rick Herd
Sudden switch shocked Ormiston house buyers
"Should I be worried?" asked one concerned buyer, unsure where to turn next
Editorial: Property collapses a grim Kiwi tradition
OPINION: Our editorial on the parlous situation for the construction sector.
Gib crisis: Four containers a month coming from Thailand
'We're just at the start of the failure of supply caused by our monopoly provider.'