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Bernard Hickey: Use overseas dosh for Auckland

This week's news from Auckland's housing market must have terrified first-home buyers and delighted property owners.

Advantages to buying your own home

Mary Holm says Auckland house prices and shares may look a bit bubbly, but it’s better to focus on what you want and go for it.

You might be sitting on a veritable goldmine

Here’s how to turn your spare bedroom into a money machine.

New turn on rollercoaster ride for NZX indices

Monday was an important day for the NZX because it passed all responsibilities for the maintenance, calculation and dissemination of its indices to S&P Dow Jones Indices.

Busting Winston Peters' immigration myths

Auckland's net gain of 26,600 migrants in the past year boosted demand for housing in the city, writes Brian Fallow. But if you are talking about home ownership there are a lot more factors at play.

John Drinnan: RNZ seeks cure to ratings malaise

Major changes are expected for flagship shows on Radio NZ National after the latest survey showed no improvement, writes John Drinnan.

Caseload: Little known truths about new judges

CaseLoad must remain tight-lipped about his part in last week's appointment of two new High Court judges - lest nosey parkers get the wrong idea...

Super Fund kudos shows Govt folly

JPMorgan's hat tip to the New Zealand Superannuation Fund was PR manna from heaven after all the hoo-haa a few months back over its ill-fated Portuguese excursion.

Peter Bromhead: Great robo escape

Even though it's 70 years since World War II ended, my home still resonates with traces of the event, thanks to my purchase of a robotic vacuum cleaner that responds only in German.

Five ideas to help get more done at work

There is a vast gulf between what business tools can do; and how people actually them, says Debbie Mayo-Smith.

Get Sorted: Credit elephant in the room

We spend a lot more using credit cards than we would with cash. How much more? A number of studies show how and why people spend more on credit than with cash, but there's no consensus as to how much.

Christopher Niesche: Buffett's IAG foray

Last week the world's greatest living investor and third richest person made his first foray into the Australian stock market with a A$500 million stake in insurer IAG.

Helen Twose: Ins and outs of holidays

A contributions holiday can be taken once you've been a KiwiSaver member for at least 12 months.

Bernard Hickey: Auckland property an ongoing issue

This week's Productivity Commission report on housing reveals how Auckland's land prices have spiralled over the past decade and the toll that is taking on NZ's economy, writes Bernard Hickey.

Probe 'wake-up call': Gaynor

Milford Asset Management executive director Brian Gaynor has spoken out on the market manipulation probe into the company he co-founded in 2003, describing it as a "wake up call".

Women's gifting circles can be a worry

Partying and fun veil pressure to give to ‘worthy’ cause and could be classed as illegal pyramid schemes in US, writes Mary Holm.

Diana Clement: Insurance fraud high price

Insurance is a privilege. If you're caught breaching the terms and conditions of your policy, you could be blacklisted from both your present and any other insurer, writes Diana Clement.

Brian Fallow: Busting open the land banks

A land-buying agency with compulsory acquisition powers is the most radical of the Productivity Commission's proposals for dealing with Auckland's housing crisis.