“Latest house price figures from Quotable Value show the annual growth rate has fallen to 2.9 per cent. This compares to Statistics NZ figures showing wages grew by 3.3 per cent in the year ending December 2018. “This compares to 2016 when house prices rose 16 per...
QLDC Planning and Development General Manager Tony Avery advised these 90-minute focused sessions have come about due to a number of statutory consultations coming up in 2019 which relate to future development in our district’s townships. “Stage Three of the District...
- Brad Ward - Deputy Chief Executive (DCE) KiwiBuild and Large-Scale Projects Transition at HUD. - Helen O’Sullivan - Head of KiwiBuild Commercial. - Chris Aiken - overall leadership of the work programme regarding the delivery of Large-Scale Projects and the use of...
Organiser and tiny home owner Sharla May says: “The tiny house scene in New Zealand is gaining momentum as people choose living tiny over living in houses most people can no longer afford. “Tiny living is definitely appealing to a wide audience. It’s becoming popular...
To better understand homelessness and create a strategy to resolve it, Council staff have worked closely with local schools, health providers, government agencies, people and families who have found themselves homeless, and the social service organisations that work...
Tallwood, an innovative design and technology-led offsite manufacture company has just amalgamated with Stanley Modular – a devision of Stanley Construction. The new entity, Tallwood, caters for the ‘missing middle’; the amalgamation having...
Located at 80 Don McKinnon Drive, the bare block of 15,969 sq m of freehold land is for sale by tender, closing 4pm, Thursday May 17, 2018, unless sold prior to that date. It is being marketed by Eddie Zhong, Bayleys North Shore Commercial in conjunction with Mike...
Spanbild, whose suite of brands include Versatile Homes & Buildings, Ideal Buildings and Totalspan Steel Buildings, today said it acquired MGHs’ 50 percent stake in New Zealand Panelised Building Systems, trading as Concision, for an undisclosed sum. The...
A report out today, called Our Land 2018, shows New Zealand’s urban sprawl is eating up some of the country’s most versatile land. It highlights that between 1990 and 2008, 29 percent of new urban areas were built on some of the country’s most...
“Under the pretext of improving the supply of affordable houses,” said Glenys Searancke, RDRR Chair, “the Mayor has used the Housing Accords and Special Housing Areas Act to ram through a proposal for sign off by the Minister of Housing Phil Twyford. It will see a...