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Housing Trust Undertaking Sustainability Review Of Major Arrowtown Project
Monday, 9 August 2021, 2:33 pm | Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust
The Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust (QLCHT) is challenging its own urban design practice by seeking out specialists to help create affordable sustainable housing for future generations. The Trust is calling for proposals from urban design, ... More >>
Affordable Home Ownership Opportunity In Wanaka
Thursday, 29 July 2021, 8:47 am | Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust
Home ownership opportunities under $500,000 remain few and far between in Wanaka these days. However, thanks to the Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust’s (QLCHT) ground-breaking assisted ownership model, Secure Home, this remains a real option ... More >>
Snow Machine Announces New Dates For The Four-day Destination Music Festival
Tuesday, 27 July 2021, 4:32 pm | NZSki
Joint Press Release from Snow Machine and NZSki. Organisers of the highly anticipated Snow Machine festival have made the decision to push the event out by three weeks, following the pause of the Trans-Tasman bubble on Friday. The event, which is in ... More >>
Housing Trust Waiting List Continues To Grow Despite Rents Reducing
Friday, 23 July 2021, 9:32 am | Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust
The waiting list for assistance from the Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust (QLCHT) is continuing to grow despite COVID-19 resetting rental prices across the district. Before the pandemic hit New Zealand shores, QLCHT had a waiting list of ... More >>
Business Insolvency In A Pandemic World
Thursday, 22 July 2021, 11:32 am | BWA Insolvency
By Bryan Williams of BWA Insolvency The economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have seen an increase in demand for insolvency services. We believe this demand will only increase over the next few years. While New Zealand hasn’t seen ... More >>
Popular First Base Retro Ski Parties Coming To Queenstown This Winter
Wednesday, 19 May 2021, 9:54 am | NZSki
Coronet Peak and The Remarkables have announced that First Base; A Vintage Après Ski Soirée, will be hitting the Queenstown mountains this July. The two-day event begins on Saturday 3 July at Coronet Peak with a special Night Ski as part of Queenstown’s ... More >>
Progressive Home Ownership Launched At Queenstown Apartments
Friday, 12 March 2021, 5:42 pm | Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust
Yesterday celebrated the kickstart of 25 first home buyers into their Progressive Home Ownership (PHO) journey at the Toru apartments in Queenstown. Twenty-five households will be purchasing homes under the Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust’s ground-breaking ... More >>
Home Ownership In Queenstown Now Truly Affordable With Housing Trust
Thursday, 28 January 2021, 3:01 pm | Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust
Home ownership in Queenstown has never been more affordable thanks to the Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust’s ground-breaking assisted ownership model, Secure Home. Three years after signing a contract for 50 of the 78 units in the Toru development ... More >>
Drax Project And BROODS Presented By Corona At Coronet Peak
Tuesday, 12 January 2021, 1:30 pm | NZSki
Two of New Zealand’s biggest acts, Drax Project and BROODS, will take centre stage at Coronet Peak on Sunday 21 March in an all-ages gig. The double header, presented by Corona, is set to be one of the biggest music events held at Coronet Peak and ... More >>
Ex-Pat UK Athletes Take Out NZ Sotheby’s Realty Queenstown Marathon Titles
Saturday, 21 November 2020, 5:19 pm | New Zealand Sotheby's International Realty
QTM 2020 | Photo: Ross Mackay It was somewhat ironic that in a year when international visitors could not make it across the borders, it was athletes with strong ties to the UK that took out the New Zealand Sotheby’s International Realty Queenstown ... More >>
Significant Queenstown Station Up For Sale
Wednesday, 18 November 2020, 8:29 am | New Zealand Sotheby's International Realty
One of New Zealand’s most prominent alpine properties has been listed on the open market for the first time in 40 years. Halfway Bay Station – a phenomenal 18,000-ha station located on the shores of Queenstown’s majestic Lake Wakatipu – is now ... More >>
Scope Media Finalists In 2020 Pressies Awards
Tuesday, 17 November 2020, 1:21 pm | Scope Media
Southern Lakes' marketing communications agency Scope Media has been named a finalist for the NZ Communications Council Pressies Awards. The agency is a finalist in the Best Use of Media Relations category for its work on launching Wānaka start-up Nautilus ... More >>
Community Initiative Turns Queenstown Students Into Marathon Runners
Thursday, 22 October 2020, 8:30 am | New Zealand Sotheby's International Realty
Twenty-nine students and 20 teachers and staff from the school are participating in weekly training sessions, led by Braden Lee of Industrial Fitness, to get in tip-top condition for the world-renowned marathon, which takes place Saturday, November 21. ... More >>
Affordable Housing Underway At Wānaka Subdivision Hikuwai
Monday, 21 September 2020, 1:23 pm | Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust
Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust’s ground-breaking assisted ownership model, Secure Home, is coming to Wānaka for the first time – with six houses under construction at Hikuwai. QLCHT is building two 2-bedroom, three 3-bedroom, and one ... More >>
NZSki Announces A New Zealand First For Mt Hutt Next Winter
Friday, 18 September 2020, 5:36 am | NZSki
The Mt Hutt winter experience is set to be transformed with the installation of New Zealand’s first 8-seater chairlift – the Nor’west Express. The new Nor’west Express lift from Leitner Ropeways will replace the current Quad chair and Mt Hutt ... More >>
Sober Findings In Major Survey Of Queenstown Lakes Renters
Wednesday, 5 August 2020, 9:16 am | Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust
Residential renters in Queenstown and Wanaka are still experiencing significant housing stress in the the rental market despite rent prices falling in June, a local survey reveals. Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust (QLCHT) surveyed more than ... More >>
Government Funding Announced For Community Housing Trust’s Secure Home Programme
Friday, 24 July 2020, 1:54 pm | Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust
The Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust (QLCHT) has today received confirmation of a $6.35m interest-free loan from the Government. Housing Minister Megan Woods today announced the Government would commit $6.35m to supporting QLCHT’s ... More >>
The Remarkables Kicks Off The 2020 Season
Sunday, 5 July 2020, 7:57 am | NZSki
From left to right - Jano LePage, Flynn Cashmere-Reid, Mace Korani, Kennishii Palmer, Sam Blackman and Tim Blackwood. An enthusiastic crowd hit the slopes for the opening of the 2020 season at The Remarkables on Saturday. Local Arrowtown residents Jano ... More >>
Underlying Conditions
Thursday, 23 April 2020, 11:44 am | BWA Insolvency
“Underlying conditions” and “impaired immune systems” are terms that New Zealand now readily understand. They are used in the context of those people in our society who are most vulnerable to the effects of COVID-19. That same vulnerability ... More >>
Government’s Business Debt Hibernation Scheme Is A Watered-down Version Of Voluntary Administration
Wednesday, 15 April 2020, 1:19 pm | BWA Insolvency
The government has made positive plans to reignite the economy post lockdown. An example of this is the Business Debt Hibernation scheme. This is designed to increase the survival potential of a viable business that may be faltering because of the ... More >>
