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Barfoot & Thompson is New Zealand's largest privately owned, non-franchised real estate company, based in Auckland, New Zealand.The company is family owned and operated and is still run by the same Barfoot and Thompson families that started the business in the 1920s.
New Zealand society as a whole continues to dream the dream of owner-occupied home-ownership despite changing economic and environmental conditions. The local real-estate sector promotes myths of moving onto (and up) the property ladder [9] accordingly, and New Zealand politicians foster the idea of a stable democracy rooted in property-ownership.
The Vero Centre (constructed as the Royal & SunAlliance Centre) is a high rise office tower located in Auckland, New Zealand. Constructed in 2000, it was Auckland's first major tower built since the 1980s. The centre contains a health club and gymnasium, main entry public foyer, retail outlets in the five podium levels and 32 office levels.
The Auckland Islands – as with all of New Zealand's subantarctic islands – is a National Nature Reserve, afforded the highest possible level of protection under New Zealand law. In addition, a marine reserve encompasses all of the Auckland Islands territorial sea and internal waterways. [2]
Mainzeal Property and Construction Ltd was one of the largest New Zealand property and construction companies [1] until being placed into receivership on 6 February 2013 and then being placed into liquidation on 28 February 2013. [2] According to its website, Mainzeal was involved in delivering $7.5 billion of construction projects across New ...
Sandspit is a settlement in the Auckland Region of New Zealand. It is on the Mahurangi Peninsula, about 65 kilometres north of the city centre. It has experienced substantial increases in property values during the first two decades of the 21st century. [3] Ferries run several times a day from Sandspit to Kawau Island. [4]
In August 2022, the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ) reported the median house price in the Auckland region was $1,100,000, ranging from $900,000 in the former Papakura District area to $1,285,000 in the former North Shore City area, This is compared to a median price of $700,000 outside of Auckland. [118]
Hardwicke is the name of a former agricultural and whaling community set up at Port Ross, a natural harbour on Auckland Island in the New Zealand Subantarctic Islands. The settlement was established in 1849 but was abandoned within three years.