By: Bryce P
There is something really wrong with your maths. You are assuming that they are going to buy a property for $400k, demolish the house and sell it for $500k. This is not what will happen. What they will...
View ArticleBy: obi
“Do you have a reference to back that opinion or is this just a WAG?” NZ has constructed around 15-20k homes a year over the last decade. There just isn’t the excess capacity in the industry to double...
View ArticleBy: Malcolm M
If the private sector can already provide homes for $350,000 and make a profit, HNZC should be able to go to $300,000 by redeveloping the land they already own. Compliance costs can be spread across a...
View ArticleBy: Peter M
Indeed. Biggest cost for developers is acquiring the land and then the holding costs of paying heaps of interest while they go through the consenting process. HNZC land has none of those problems so...
View ArticleBy: Matt L
An interesting comment from Hank Dittmar in his talk was than when developing greenfield sites using a traditional sprawl based houses, was that the first house you sell is the most important one as...
View ArticleBy: Matt L
This is where I think the council/government could be really innovative. Work together to develop a series of designs that are scalable and that could be mixed and matched but that all meet the...
View ArticleBy: Peter M
Yeah absolutely. I think that most of the developments of HNZC land should be done as PPPs anyway to introduce a bit of risk and reward sharing plus to ensure a bit of variety. Could be a huge boost to...
View ArticleBy: Kent Lundberg
Peter, what do you see as the transportation structure/system serving this swath of land?
View ArticleBy: KLK
Well, if I’m not mistaken, the area west of Great South Road is about the line the proposed Avondale-Southdown rail line would run….
View ArticleBy: KLK
…..and to the east, part of it is picked up by the eastern line, while a new CBD ferry service from Glenn Innes/Glendowie would pick up the rest near the coast
View ArticleBy: Robert
I don’t think anyone is a fan of too many tower blocks out of the CBD but intensification doesn’t need tower blocks. I hope the unitary plan does try to retain Auckland as a city of views like say...
View ArticleBy: Ricardo
Peter M, you are right about the Productivity Commission report being “lackluster” and “narrow-minded”…it was comprehensive in terms of freeing up land supply…but it ignored demand side solutions such...
View ArticleBy: bbc
The housing going in around Glen Innes which I presume is being done by Housing NZ looks pretty nice IMO (http://bit.ly/VcbN8s) and shows what could be done in many of these older HNZ areas. There are...
View ArticleBy: Mr Anderson
Glen Innes is less than 15 min from Britomart on the train. Just need a really good network of feeder bus services for areas beyond walking distance from the station I reckon.
View ArticleBy: Bryce P
A ferry would be a terrible idea for GI. It takes forever to get out of the Tamaki River and then to cut across St Heliers, Kohi etc. The train would be much faster not to mention more frequent.
View ArticleBy: Tom
NZ has constructed around 15-20k homes a year over the last decade. There just isn’t the excess capacity in the industry to double this number … Truly? It’s impossible to double building capacity in...
View ArticleBy: kalelovil
Where are the existing tenants to be housed while the land is redeveloped?
View ArticleBy: KLK
I only mentioned the ferry because I had just been reading an article about the local board and how theynwanted a ferry service from Glen Innes/Glendowie/Howick
View ArticleBy: Matt Lee
There’s no doubt this a big project, but not impossible. In the peak year of the first Labour government’s state house programme about 4000 units were built. (This at a time when N.Z.’s population was...
View ArticleBy: Matt Lee
If you break it down the numbers are less daunting… Of 6,000 – 7,000 houses each year, you might, for argument’s sake, spread them between • medium density greenfields, Pukekohe • multi storey flats,...
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