Top local tavern: Tavern Harewood
A family-friendly bar and restaurant at the heart of Harewood’s community is a treasure box of connection and memory-making. Harewood is lucky to host a local tavern that is designed for comfort and convenience, with plenty of on-site parking and family-friendly dining. Even better, Tavern Harewood is under new ownership and joins the […]
Super success for stadium architects
Local architecture heavyweight Warren and Mahoney reflects on the scale and significance of delivering One New Zealand Stadium at Te Kaha together with lead architecture practice Populous. “Architecture of this scale isn’t achieved overnight. It’s the result of years spent refining details and working through the sheer scale and complexity that a project […]
5 best places to invest in Christchurch
If you’re wondering which suburb across the city is the best investment, Opes Partners managing director Andrew Nicol shares rental yields, growth data and expert insights for 2026 in order of how fast prices have grown. 1. Addington Median house value: $564,100 Yield (rental return): 4.6% How fast prices have grown: 6.1% One […]
Half a billion for Hornby
Is a half-billion dollar investment into Hornby the answer to commercial land shortages and snowballing prices? Intensifying commercial land shortages and prices doubling to nearly $500/m2 have called constraints on future large-scale investment into question at a critical time in Canterbury’s growth. Yet a Hornby project will unlock one of the last remaining […]
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