A photograph was partly at the centre of a dispute over a Wellington property that was sold. Two Johnsonville real estate agents listed but did not sell a house there. They sought $30,000 from retirees but the parties’ legal battle wasn’t so much about that as a photograph taken from a roadside. Catherine and Craig Freear of Real Estate Now […]

Landlords’ investment property appetite didn’t change much towards the end of last year, with them still accounting for around 17 per cent of all borrowing. Reserve Bank data showed investors had a slightly stronger appetite for property,borrowing $1.3 billion in October but that rising to $1.53b in November. But their activity is staying relatively level and their share of buying […]

After moving in starkly opposite directions early in the session, the major U.S. stock indexes continue to turn in a mixed performance in afternoon trading on Tuesday. While the S&P 500 has joined the Nasdaq in the red, the Dow has pulled back off its best levels but remains in positive territory. Currently, the Dow is up 172.08 points or […]

As the digital clock ticks away, Quentin Tarantino and Miramax’s legal dust-up over the Oscar winner’s plan to auction off NFTs of his Pulp Fiction screenplay just opened a whole new front. A week before the first of seven offerings is set to start of the 1994 film’s script, lawyers for the Bill Block-run studio just drew a distinct line […]

New Zealand’s largest commercial property transaction of last year has a few curious twists. It’s not every day that a $177 million sale occurs, but when it happened last year, Colliers’ Chris Dibble put it at the top of his list of the most expensive of 2021. But there’s something a little odd about it: the vendor never said who […]

Heathrow Airport has called for all coronavirus testing to be dropped for fully-vaccinated people while revealing that “at least” 600,000 passengers cancelled flights during the key holiday month of December. The UK’s largest airport said “swiftly imposed” action during the month to tackle the Omicron variant in the run-up to the festive season prompted uncertainty among travellers who faced additional […]

Of all the most serious crimes tracked by the FBI — known as Part I offenses — larceny is by far the most common. There were 4.6 million cases of larceny-theft reported in the United States in 2020, accounting for nearly 60% of all Part I offenses, which also include murder, assault, robbery, rаpe, vehicle theft, and burglary.  Larceny is […]

Comcast and WarnerMedia have renewed their carriage deal covering major cable networks like TBS and TNT and also added Xfinity distribution for streaming outlet CNN+. The companies said the multi-year deal includes linear carriage of TBS, TNT, CNN, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, TCM, truTV, HLN and CNN en Español as well as on-demand and TV Everywhere programming. Comcast is the […]

The Delta wave of the coronavirus began to subside in the U.S. in late September, but congestion in the global supply chain linked to the pandemic continues to torment businesses and consumers. Wholesale orders for materials and finished goods are piling up, while cargo ships at key U.S. ports wait to unload the products they have due to labor shortages. […]