Shamubeel Eaqub is a keynote speaker this morning at Making Community Housing Happen: The Impact Conference being held in Nelson. Read the media release here
Contains information on the social housing reform programme, housing affordability and housing supply in Canterbury. Read the report 2014-2015 Estimates for Vote Housing here
Stephen Barclay says his team was on target to meet the 1000 house goal while he was in charge. Cabinet ministers are meeting for the first time this year with the KiwiBuild programme high on the agenda. The flagship scheme has dogged the government in recent weeks...
Economist Shamubeel Eaqub says KiwiBuild will have to change and might be better off building social or rental houses if it’s to reach its goal of 100,000 houses. “People have really misunderstood KiwiBuild, it’s such a complicated thing. It’s...
Young developer’s fresh take on housing. A 28-year-old entrepreneur believes his $1 billion south Auckland housing project will be held up as a “blueprint” for future developments. Land developer Charles Ma, an Auckland-born Kiwi of Chinese descent,...
Number of homes contracted and committed: 10,160 with thousands more planned in our Large Scale Projects. Number of homes completed: 47 with 236 more homes under construction Number of homes contracted and committed for completion by 30 June 2019: 293 (Some contracts...
Jessica*, who is a nurse, and her builder partner bought a piece of land in Auckland at the end of 2016 for $220,000 with the dream of either putting a transportable house or kit-set type home on to it. But two banks and two mortgage brokers later she has virtually...
