Lifestyle news and publications

Featured

January 2025

The rise (and rise) of lifestyle properties - what’s driving demand, and is it in your home-ownership future?

The quarter acre dream - it’s a nostalgic slice of New Zealand’s housing history. But as house prices grew and busier lives meant less time to tend to large sections, property sizes...

Featured

March 2024

Christchurch northern fringe property sells 40 per cent above government valuation

Wally Vaughan was born on the family farm, Beaconsfield in Woodend, North Canterbury in 1941, 26 years after his grandfather Henry Vaughan purchased the property, initially to farm sheep and...

Featured

March 2024

Casual drive to Cambridge leads to permanent move

For Auckland couple Mike and Linda Panther, taking a casual drive to Cambridge one weekend in August last year ended up taking them there permanently. “We have contemplated retirement for a...

Featured

March 2024

‘Most significant’ far north offering set to become highly prized coastal settlement

An exceptional Northland rural property, subdivided to enable the establishment of a series of spectacular coastal lifestyle blocks, is set to come to the market in April. John Duder, Northland...

Featured

February 2024

What does 2024 have in store for the property market in New Zealand?

The most recent numbers are in and it seems that the New Zealand property market is starting to make its comeback after a quiet 24 month period. According to REINZ, figures from December show...

Featured

January 2024

How to: Choose a Real Estate Agent to Sell Your Property

Check out your local market You probably already know of a few agents around your town or region. Whether it’s through signage, advertising or word-of-mouth, some names will certainly be...

Featured

January 2024

What to expect from a property appraisal

What happens at your free appraisal? A property appraisal is a way for you, as a homeowner, to understand what your property may be worth in the current market. You may wish to sell in the near...

Featured

January 2024

Fiordland property market ‘hotspot’ bucks national trend

While property transactions in most of the country are at a low ebb, the ‘hotspot’ market in Te Anau and Manapouri is bucking the trend as buyers, particularly from outside the region,...

Featured

December 2023

A quick guide to sell your lifestyle property in 2024

It is not an easy decision to make - that the time has come to sell your lifestyle property. But lives change, needs evolve, and so do our desires for where we want to call ‘home’. There...

Featured

March 2023

Rekindled love of horses prompts lifestyle move

Since she was a teen living on her family’s Prebbleton lifestyle block south of Christchurch, Anna Grainger has loved horses. She became a keen equestrian, enjoying the sport as both a...

January 2025

Fact or fiction - is there a ‘best time’ when it comes to selling your provincial residential, rural or lifestyle property?

If you’re thinking about selling your property - whether rural, residential or lifestyle - you’d want to know when is the ‘best time’ to do so. Of course it’s important...