Business & Markets

Bay breaks $500K asking price average

The Bay of Plenty has broken the $500,000 ceiling in average asking price, with Waikato, Wellington, Canterbury and Central Otago also reaching new record highs. A... Read More

New trustees for Creative Tauranga

Creative Tauranga plans to establish a new governance structure to better serve the local artistic and cultural sectors. This new governance structure comes after... Read More

Hammers and nail in BOP

House building is through the roof - at its highest level since mid-2004. Latest building consent statistics tell us nearly 1700 houses, worth $1 billion nationally,... Read More

Fonterra revise forecast milk price

Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited today reduced its forecast Farmgate Milk Price for the 2015/16 season from $4.60 per kgMS to $4.15 per kgMS. When combined with... Read More

$400k tourism boost promise

Tauranga City councillors are supporting Tourism Bay of Plenty's bid for investment in the city's tourist facilities. The draft annual plan, which will be going... Read More

Bureta sales looming

Ownership of all the former Bureta Park land is about to turn over with both the recently completed Countdown supermarket and the adjoining vacant land under conditional... Read More

House sales up in Tauranga

New Real Estate Institute of New Zealand figures show house sales in Tauranga rose by three per cent in December 2015, compared to the same month the previous year.... Read More

Jobs vacancies rise in the Bay

The Bay of Plenty saw an increase in the number of jobs advertised in the month of December. According to the latest figures from the Ministry of Business, Innovation... Read More

Western Bay’s million-dollar towns

Katikati and Te Puke are homes to some of the region's most expensive real estate listing with 32 properties expected to fetch more than $1 million. Of the 61 properties... Read More

Cars plugging into the Coromandel

A revolution is taking place in the Coromandel that will allow people to drive their electric vehicles around the Thames-Kopu area. Just south of Thames off State... Read More

Post-xmas debt hangover

Bay of Plenty companies are being warned to start following up outstanding Christmas debt. For every six months waited there is a 20 per cent less chance of recovery,... Read More

Dick Smith CEO steps down

Dick Smith chief executive officer Nick Abboud tendered his resignation on Monday night, effective immediately. The company's receivers Ferrier Hodgson have also... Read More