CoLab 2018

CoLab 2018 will be in and around Auckland, the heart of the building action: Wed 7 March: CoLab Site Visit Day @ AUT pick-up (9.30am – 5.00pm) Thur 8 March: CoLab Conference Day @ AUT + evening soiree (8.30am – 7.00pm) Fri 9 March: CoLab Members’ workshops @ pro clima...

​CORT Community Housing in Herald

It shows some of the changes and challenges, successes and solutions in community housing over the 30 years CORT Community Housing has been in existence. Unfortunately, we have little control over the media removing the Community Housing part of CORT’s title...

Government stops the sale of state houses

The Labour-led Government announced on 20 December to cancel the sell-off of state houses. The Minister of Housing and Urban Development announced the following: “This will stop the transfer of up to 2,500 state houses in Christchurch. Tenants in the suburbs of...

KiwiBuild unit set up in MBIE

The KiwiBuild Unit will be responsible for: · Building KiwiBuild homes as part of redevelopment of state housing land, alongside new state and open market homes. · Scaling up the building of KiwiBuild homes on underutilised Crown-owned land. · Purchasing (or...

Cost of building a home in NZ continues to rise

Photo RNZ QV costbuilder figuresshow the average cost of building a standard 140m², three bedroom, one bathroom home increased by the most in Wellington and Hamilton over the past year, up 2.1% to an average cost of $261,265 in both regions. In comparison, Palmerston...

Building housing in Auckland

As one of Auckland’s largesthousing developers and builders, Fletcher Living understands this issue all too well. We know a lot of Aucklanders want to own their own homes, and we can see the impact that supply issues are having on affordability and the...

Auckland relocation grant to end

“Since the Relocation from Auckland Assistance was introduced in June 2016, there has been an across-the-board increase in the demand for public and private housing, especially in regions and towns close to Auckland. “This initiative was just shifting the housing...