Stories by Susan Edmunds

If you were looking for the best investment returns of the past year, international assets would have been your top bet.

Since February, values have slowly been drifting down, Corelogic says.

Here is what to do if you are worried about time out of the workforce affecting your retirement savings.

Emily Rutherford says the app keeps reporting the temperature in her part of Central Otago is up to 5C cooler than MetService predicts - and even that is underestimating the summer heat.

It's been a tough year around the country. Here are some of the prominent businesses that did not survive.

House prices are expected to increase over the next 12 months, but how much and how fast are still up for debate.

Hamilton business Greenleaf Fresh is being put into voluntary administration. It is the company behind Greengrower, a vertical farm operation that received $3.5 million in public funding.

House prices are expected to increase over the next 12 months, but how much and how fast are still up for debate.

While brighter economic times are likely ahead, don't expect them to begin on New Year's Day, experts warn.

The woman says she was not aware he was smoking and was assaulted when she found out and confronted him.

Although the economy is set to improve next year, there is a warning things are likely to remain difficult for applicants for some time yet.

RNZ's money correspondent Susan Edmunds answers your questions.

The man thought he had accident cover in place, but when he injured himself, he couldn't book surgery in a private hospital.

'Passionate' gardener crossed the line with tenants, tribunal says.

Buddhika Rajapakse, who is based in Auckland, has received two letters from BP telling him he's driven off from a petrol station in Whanganui without paying for fuel.

The Ministry of Social Development says Rhonda Saxton can't afford rent on new premises - but she says she's already proved she can.

With the 'investment' provider registered overseas, there is little she can do to try to get her money back.

MBIE favoured a 2 percent increase, however, the government opted for 1.5 percent rise.

RNZ's money correspondent Susan Edmunds answers your questions.

If you've been grocery shopping recently, there's a good chance your trolley contained milk and toast bread, and maybe some bananas and avocados.

A hospitalised reveller, a serially delayed traveller and a disgruntled borrower are just some of the cases revealed by a deep-dive.

Subsidies are gone, road user charges are in, and ACC levies are up. So do electric cars still make financial sense?

Investors are often driven by an expectation of capital gain - meaning they might overvalue a house, researcher says.

Bad news for the economy could mean good news for homeowners in the new year.

That equated to nearly 20,000 jobs, economist Shamubeel Eaqub's data shows.