Major affordable housing project in the pipeline for Arrowtown

Last Thursday the Queenstown Lakes District Council approved a 3.6ha site on Jopp Street to be assigned to the Trust to build 65 homes for a mixed tenure development. The land has been earmarked for housing since 2003, when the local community identified the site as...

​ Govt will not implement a Capital Gains Tax

“The Tax Working Group gave the Government, and the country, an opportunity to look at the fairness of our tax system and debate options for change,” Jacinda Ardern said. “All parties in the Government entered into this debate with different perspectives and, after...

300 apartments for Gorge Road – but are they affordable?

But Housing Minister Phil Twyford was not able to give an indicative price for the apartments – admitting that “not everyone will be able to afford them.” The prices could be around the $500,000 to $600,000 mark which the Minister said “is half...