100th home completed at Waimahia

In Manurewa in south Auckland, Waimahia’s key focus is to provide high quality housing within an affordable price range. The development will ultimately yield around 280 new dwellings and sites and is scheduled for completion by 2017. It features a mix of housing...

Community housing provider meeting in Christchurch

Community Housing Aotearoa and Christchurch City Council have organised this meeting as a follow up to the discussion on 8 September, here are the minutes of that meeting. At that meeting there was interest in forming a network of providers to work on increasing the...

Australasian Housing Awards 2015

Leading Innovation: Whangarei Accessible Housing Leading Housing Development Project Award: Accessible Properties NZ, 8-10 Middleton Road Development Leading Tenant Engagement Practice – Tenants Protection Association Christchurch The Winner of the Inspirational Team...

Directors for New Zealand Housing Bonds announced

The new directors are: Toni Kerr, Paul Minett and John Abel-Pattinson. Antoinette (Toni) Kerr, has significant experience in financial services. After focusing on risk management for capital markets and private banking with various multinational banks offshore, Toni...

Urban planning rules to be reviewed

Finance Minister Bill English says“Urban planning in New Zealand not only underpins housing affordability but also the productivity of the wider economy.” “Many parts of the regime are out-dated and unwieldy, having been developed over the years in a piecemeal...