Let’s go there now: the future of our urban villages
This is a guest post by David Slack, who has kindly shared it from his excellent long-running newsletter ‘More Than a Feilding’, for the benefit of Greater Auckland readers. (Header image and accompanying photos also by David Slack.) If the only line Joni Mitchell had ever written was about paving paradise and putting up a parking lot, she’d have left words for the ages.…
22 Comments Development update: October 2018
To most Aucklanders, 2018 looks a lot like 2017.
House prices have been flat, or have gone down a tiny bit, depending on what data you look at. Rents keep going up. Auckland is still growing, still congested, and still has sub-par public transport.…
Ch-Ch-Changes
Submissions to the Productivity Commission’s Low-emissions economy draft report close today June 8th, here. Arrrg.
There is a great deal that’s really good in the report, but one thing that I feel the Prodcom is missing is the changing nature of our cities, in particular Auckland.…
Development update: June 2018
Here on Greater Auckland, we’ve got the sponsored RCG Development Tracker page which shows hundreds of housing projects across Auckland (and NZ): apartments, terraces, retirement villages etc. It also shows big commercial developments and Auckland’s rapid transit network.
After a great post from Matt the other week, I’ve updated the Development Tracker with the proposed light rail lines along Dominion Rd and out to the airport, and out to the North West.…
Development update: Feb 2018
If you wander around Auckland (especially the city centre), you’ll notice that there’s a lot of construction going on, and a lot of people hard at work on those sites. 2017 was a big year for building and development. 2018 will probably be even bigger, but let’s recap 2017 for now.…
Development Update: December 2017
As I sat down to write this “Development Update” post, the 30th one I’ve done, I realised I didn’t really know what I wanted to write about. So I thought I’d throw it over to you guys, our Greater Auckland readers.…
Development update: October 2017
Patrick’s great post on Hamilton the other day prompted me to take a closer look at Hamilton for this Development Update. Like its “Golden Triangle” buddies Auckland and Tauranga, Hamilton is growing at a rate of knots. Let’s hope we can get even better connections between the three with Regional Rapid Rail.…
Development update: September 2017
Despite it being winter, and almost an election, and house prices in Auckland having backed off a bit this year, there have still been a number of apartments ‘launched to the market’ in the last couple of months.
Interestingly, the eastern suburbs are finally getting some love.…
Development update: August 2017 (the “top 10” for Auckland apartments)
This month, I’ve pulled out some of the data behind the RCG Development Tracker, to give a picture of the people helping to solve Auckland’s housing crisis. I’ve taken a narrow focus here – just looking at apartment developers, builders and architects – but they’re an important part of the solution.…
Development update: June 2017
Winter is a quiet time of year for real estate agents. People tend to hunker down and stay where they are. This has always seemed silly to me – if I’m thinking about moving house, I want to see the new place at its worst.…
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