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The fortunes of sellers and house hunters in the South Island are rapidly diverging from their northern counterparts.

The New Zealand courts are set to be challenged on whether AI can legally be an inventor.

The company is seen as a bellwether stock, and owns brands including NZ Couriers, Post Haste, Big Chill Distribution and TIMG.

How soon is the official cash rate likely to start to increase? And will any hint of it send what banks charge higher?

Milford Investments CEO Blair Turnbull said unless the retirement age rises to 72 or 73, New Zealand can't afford to pay superannuation.

A woman who helped her son and his wife buy a house has been offered compensation for the way the bank handled the dispute when the relationship went sour.

Customers are being caught out by large changes in the valuation of their vehicles.

Sky TV is apologising for what it says is a processing error that meant some Sky Sport Now annual pass customers were not given enough information about their contracts rolling over.

Concern for the impact on the environment of buying new and a desire to recycle is a big factor in younger people's choice to buy and sell secondhand.

However, even a modest reduction in commercial rates could push residential rates up by around 4 percent.

The company gets about 80 percent of revenue from overseas and close to 40 percent from US sales.

However, concerns over the review's timing so close to election time are a "fair question", he says. Audio

If you are in Auckland or Wellington, the answer may be more than you might think.

New data from Cotality shows that 12 percent of people selling residential properties in the last quarter of last year did so for less than the amount they paid for them.