“This $112 million Waimahia housing development is a wonderful success story and a huge credit to the community housing sector and iwi partners. It has delivered 295 genuinely affordable homes for modest and lower income families in a beautiful new coastal...
Earlier this year, the Council entered a 15-year agreement with a local property development company to convert the former Freemason House on Willis Street, into 35 apartments, called Te Kāinga Aroha. Council will lease the quality one-, two- and three-bedroom...
A New Zealand start-up has launched a low cost, high-tech home environmental monitoring system that is already helping landlords like Housing New Zealand mitigate health risks to tenant families from common but deadly ailments like asthma and rheumatic fever. New...
“I am very pleased to appoint Mr Crisp to this role,” the Commissioner said. “Mr Crisp is a seasoned public servant and leader with significant experience working in the housing and urban development sector. “His career includes 13 years in senior and executive...
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The Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment (MBIE) opened the temporary housing village in April last year for those displaced by earthquake damage to their homes. But in the nine months since they opened some units have not had a single occupant. Ngaio Te Ua...
Hutt City Council-owned property company Urban Plus Limited (is experiencing high demand for its new developments with one sold out, over half of another under contract and a 27 dwelling development in the planning stage already receiving enquiries. Bringing new...
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...
“Access to public buildings is a basic human right and New Zealand building legislation supports this. The Buildings for Everyone guide encourages building owners and designers to consider the needs of all users of public buildings right from the start,” says Jenny...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
“The government could lower unit construction costs in many ways, as it is well aware,” former Business Roundtable economist Bryce Wilkinson says in a new research note today. It could ease up on red tape, improve the supply of urban land by removing...
This week a report found New Zealand is one of the most unaffordable countries in the world to buy a house, with the average price more than six times the median household income. More than six months into KiwiBuild, only 33 homes have been built – well short of...