Friday, 21 May 2021, 4:10 pm
GM
Harris
Manawatū District Council
has appointed Shayne Harris as Chief Executive for the next
five years. Shayne has been Council’s Acting Chief
Executive since Dr Richard Templer left for a position at
Engineering New Zealand in November 2020.
Shayne
started with Manawatū District Council in 2008 as the
Support Services Group Manager and a year later became the
General Manager – Corporate and Regulatory, which he did
until he became Acting Chief Executive.
Born in
Palmerston North, Shayne attended Palmerston North Boys High
School before joining the NZ Army where he completed 23
years’ service in the Regular Force and Territorial
Te Kōtui Reo Taumata collective spokesperson, Meihana Durie of Ngāti Kauwhata, leads a haka in the square. “What do we want? Māori wards! When do we want them? Now!” The march, the largest protest in Feilding in living memory if not all time, was led by the marae collective Te Kōtui Reo Taumata. It began at Te Runanga O Raukawa on South St, through the town square, and to the council building on Manchester St. Barbara Cameron, the only Māori to be elected to the council, said she had not seen a protest of such a scale in her 15 years of local government.
Perth’s luxury property growth ranked highest in Australia
By Bianca Dabu
25 February 2021
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Smaller cities have outranked the major capitals for prime luxury residential real estate price growth, a new report has shown.
Five Australian cities have entered the top 65 in prime residential market performance over 2020, according to Knight Frank’s latest wealth report, with PerthPerth, TASPerth, WA (34), Gold Coast (36) and Brisbane (44) overtaking Sydney (56) and Melbourne (65).
Knight Frank’s Prime International Residential Index (PIRI 100) tracks the movement of luxury residential prices across the world’s top 100 residential markets.
“Globally, prime residential prices performed better than expected in 2020, with markets having to weather the global pandemic and associated economic turmoil,” Knight Frank’s head of residential research for Australia, Michelle Ciesielski, said in a statement.
Aussies swarm high-end property market, triggering price growth
By Bianca Dabu
25 February 2021
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Prices across the high-end property market are tipped to see exponential growth as demand for space and comfort increases.
Knight Frank’s latest wealth report has predicted strong demand for luxury property to continue across the country, with growth of 3 per cent predicted across PerthPerth, TASPerth, WA, Gold Coast and Sydney. Brisbane and Melbourne too are expected to benefit from this new trend, with increases of 2 and 1 per cent, respectively.
According to research head Michelle Ciesielski, with the ultra-wealthy population in Australia increasing over the past year, much of this wealth will be redirected back into expanding property portfolios over the coming year.