Napier house prices hit record $810k: Parents investing just to keep roof over kids heads
13 May, 2021 06:00 PM
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A larger supply of higher-priced houses and fewer sales of more affordable houses are a cause of the high, increasing house prices in Napier, a real estate professional says. Photo / Warren Buckland
A larger supply of higher-priced houses and fewer sales of more affordable houses are a cause of the high, increasing house prices in Napier, a real estate professional says. Photo / Warren Buckland
A real estate agent says parents in Hawke s Bay are becoming unwitting property investors in a desperate bid to keep a roof over their kids heads.
Haumoana seawall could increase value of houses by 40 per cent, estate agent says
29 Apr, 2021 11:01 PM
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Nikki Armstrong at home on the sea front with Buster. She s ecstatic about the seawall. Photo / Warren Buckland
Nikki Armstrong at home on the sea front with Buster. She s ecstatic about the seawall. Photo / Warren Buckland
Hawkes Bay Today
By: Sahiban Hyde
The value of homes on a stretch of eroding Haumoana coastline have likely increased by 40 per cent overnight after a council seawall got the green light, a property expert says. Hastings and Hawke s Bay Regional Council this week granted consents for the 100m wall, which will be built from large limestone rocks and constructed to protect Cape View Corner at the intersection of East, Beach and Clifton Roads from erosion.