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4/09/2010
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Slow burn

Slow burn

Queenstown real estate continues to be stuck in the same doldrums it’s been in for most of this year.  Just 24 homes or apartments changed hands in July – one more than May, which marked a 10-year low.  By contrast, June »»

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Funding cuts force new-home buyers to pay for eco-design service

Funding cuts force new-home buyers to pay for eco-design service

Eco-friendly: David Reid Homes Queenstown manager Alistair Smith outside Jason Bartlett’s »»

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No fee war out there?–?yet

No fee war out there?–?yet

Queenstown realtors insist they’re standing firm on commission rates – despite some »»

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Queenstown real estate sales shrinking

Queenstown real estate sales shrinking

Wakatipu realtors put through nearly 20 per cent fewer residential property deals in the first half »»

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Under the hammer

Under the hammer

The ghost of bankrupt apartment developer Dan McEwan returns to haunt Queenstown’s real »»

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Moving on up

Moving on up

A two-tier leasing market grips central Queenstown as commercial tenants sidestep second-rate spots »»

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Agency growth spurt

Agency growth spurt

A Wakatipu real estate company has made a major push into Frankton – taking over »»

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Porter slams road block

Porter slams road block

Remarkables Park and Queenstown Lakes District Council are at loggerheads over a proposed road »»

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Dirt on the runway

Dirt on the runway

Remarkables Park boss Alastair Porter says his deal with Queenstown Airport Corporation is a »»

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Frozen out

Frozen out

These four freezing Canadians are not alone.  A first-ever survey of Wakatipu residential »»

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Hit the road, Jack's

Hit the road, Jack's

  The multi-millionaire developers of Queenstown’s Jack’s Point »»

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Frankton reality check

Frankton reality check

An entire Queenstown suburb is struggling to shift properties because the whole area is overpriced, »»

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Rents down - but remain right up there

Rents down - but remain right up there

Queenstown retail and office rents are said to be decreasing yet prime space in the resort remains »»

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Powerless Paradise

Powerless Paradise

  A $12 million slice »»

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Frozen out

Frozen out

  Latecomers to »»

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Business park blues

Business park blues

  Life in the »»

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Dream on

Dream on

  The Wakatipu must »»

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Boxing them in

Boxing them in

  New Zealand’s »»

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Hot to trot

Hot to trot

  A stretch along Camp »»

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It’s a corker

It’s a corker

  An upgrade to the »»

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Development tax a ‘rort’

Development tax a ‘rort’

  Wakatipu developers »»

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Sales rise up

Queenstown’s real estate industry is letting out a collective sigh of relief.  February’s sales volumes are back up to last year’s monthly levels. The resurgence comes after a dire January.  The Wakatipu’s 100-plus agents notched up just 35 combined dwelling and »»

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CBD’s new bar boys

CBD’s new bar boys

  A downtown »»

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Park life picks up

Park life picks up

  Increased demand is »»

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Slow-motion market

Slow-motion market

  Real estate in the »»

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Virtual open homes

It’s home movies but not as you’d know it. A Queenstown graphic designer has developed internet technology for video home tours that are becoming a major tool for local realtors and seem likely to catch on further afield. Umoview director Jack Williams calls it a “24/7 video »»

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Pump up the volume

Wakatipu’s residential market has come through 2009 in far better shape than the slump of 2008. Despite a year-end blip, the latest real estate statistics confirm the recovery. Sales volumes for every month apart from July and December were up on the same month the year before. The figures »»

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Eight of the resort’s best

Eight of the resort’s best

Keen to start the new decade by becoming a Wakatipu homeowner instead of just a tenant? Mountain »»

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Hole of a year

You could say the Queenstown property scene endured some shaky foundations in 2009. Here’s some of the more memorable shudders. Hendo’s Hole sold, hope for Kawarau Falls The fate of developer Dave Henderson’s excavated hole for his aborted Five Mile township and Nigel »»

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Keeping burglars at bay

Keeping burglars at bay

It’s that time of year when many residents leave the Wakatipu for a holiday – but »»

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Lock in lower loans

Lock in lower loans

As Queenstown Lakes District Council’s subsidised-housing quango completes another five »»

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That’s A for Architect

That’s A for Architect

When Queenstown architects announce they’re off to an AA meeting don’t assume »»

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Don’t sign too quick

Don’t sign too quick

Like lawyers elsewhere, local legal eagles are frowning at a new sales and purchase agreement. »»

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Agent shakeout

Agent shakeout

Expect a thinning of the ranks of the Wakatipu’s 114 real estate agents as a new law »»

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Simply the best

Simply the best

  Stunning Wakatipu »»

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Room for lots more

Room for lots more

    »»

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Old Nugget’s new shine

Old Nugget’s new shine

A small, award-winning accommodation chain is taking over Queenstown’s original boutique »»

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Bye-bye to builders in Queenstown’s CBD – for now

Bye-bye to builders in Queenstown’s CBD – for now

Mark down November 2009 as the month central Queenstown becomes a crane-free and scaffolding-free »»

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Toughing it out

Toughing it out

Mortgagee meltdowns and crashed developments haven’t dented a leading banker’s »»

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Second coming

Second coming

Canny landlord swoops on two floors of five-star Sofitel hotel A Christchurch »»

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Queenstown's new one stop property shop

Queenstown's new one stop property shop

Go-to site for property buyers A new Mountain Scene residential property website launched this »»

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Buzz returns to Queenstown’s apartment scene

Buzz returns to Queenstown’s apartment scene

Queenstown’s real estate sector is still buzzing over the promising price fetched at a recent »»

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Growth spurt

Growth spurt

Shopping centre defies downturn with $40m expansion »»

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Sydney will save us

Sydney will save us

Resort fast becoming winter favourite for Aussies The so-called “Macquarie »»

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Getting the right mix crucial, say Terrace Junction developers

Getting the right mix crucial, say Terrace Junction developers

Don’t expect to find residential or industrial tenants in Queenstown’s newest »»

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Points of difference

Points of difference

Starting small: Arrow Private Htotel developer Tim Hemingway plans to boost his new »»

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Joining the dots

Joining the dots

Danger intersection’s fix to link to growing Quail Rise Quail Rise and the Frankton Flats are »»

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Opposites attract

Opposites attract

Popular properties at high and low-end of pricing spectrum Opposite ends of the residential market »»

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Name your price

Name your price

Surge in CBD space sparks a cut-throat contest for tenants You might think landlords set rents but »»

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Ace in the hole

Ace in the hole

The site’s half-dug – complete with consent for new Hilton Hotel. If »»

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Bargains for rent

Bargains for rent

  It’s a »»

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Flight to quality

Flight to quality

  Millbrook trumpets $20m property sales for year Millbrook Resort property »»

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