MTK Capital's Max Key has had a 1920s bungalow trucked onto an Owairaka/Mt Albert site to double his investment. Read the full article as a subscriber on NZ Herald
Read the full article on NZ Herald Max Key has made a splash in the hot Auckland property market, revealing that he has sold his first property development. The son of former Prime Minister Sir John Key shared before and after photos of the Glen Innes property, which he transformed from...
This story was originally published by Your Home and Garden and is republished with permission. Renovating a rundown home can take far longer than you think – even for The Block NZ veterans Alice and Caleb. PROBLEM The rooms felt dark and closed-in. The decks were unusable and therefore no indoor-outdoor flow. The foundations...
Albert Park's historic caretaker's cottage is on the move, but don't worry it's not going far. The 136-year-old heritage building has been hoisted two metres into the air in order to replace its crumbling foundations. The vertical move is part of a council plan to restore its heritage buildings but instead...
Commercial lifting company Meccanico is harnessing the experience it learned from the Christchurch earthquakes and putting it into practice in Auckland and Wellington. With contracts tendered for re-levelling Wellington's Town Hall among others, the company has had the benefit of some unusual jobs, including lifting a castle that was subsiding. One...
Character villas line most streets in Grey Lynn, Auckland, but time isn't always on their side. The owners of this century-old villa had loved it for years, but they knew it needed major work before they could move in with their young family. Dougal and Faye Swift, with children Rocco, 2,...
Character villas line most streets in Grey Lynn, Auckland, but time isn't always on their side. The owners of this century-old villa had loved it for years, but they knew it needed major work before they could move in with their young family. Dougal and Faye Swift, with children Rocco, 2,...
There's plenty of life left in Grey Lynn's tired villas, but they do need a bit of work, and sometimes an extreme makeover is called for. That's what happened to this run-down transitional villa, which has just won the 2017 TIDA NZ Architect-designed Renovation award. Designed by architect Paul Leuschke of...
It may seem surprising six years after the Canterbury earthquakes that House Lifter owner Rod Moore is busier than ever. But he said work is ramping up for straightening commercial buildings, while his residential work was also the busiest ever, and he was looking at contracts in Wellington too. With the...
The future of one of Christchurch's oldest buildings is up in the air as part of a restoration project in the centre of the Meadowlands subdivision in west Christchurch. Meadowlands is currently a work in progress between Hendersons, Halswell, Sparks and Milns Roads. Rod Moore of House Lifters said he believed...
