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With online tutorials, project-management apps and a growing DIY appetite, more homeowners are asking why they wouldn’t just manage their own build. It’s tempting, especially if you’ve dealt with trades before, are organised, and want to dodge the builder’s margin. But construction runs on timing, documentation, accountability and leverage more
There is a phrase I have been using increasingly when talking about the property market: uncertainty fatigue. And that’s a good thing. New Zealanders have had a lot to absorb over the past few years: interest rates, inflation, cost-of-living pressures, economic uncertainty and now another election on the horizon. For
A four-storey mass timber office building rising on the former Heretaunga House site in the heart of Hastings says a lot about where Hawke’s Bay’s commercial property market is heading, even while the wider economy takes its time to find its feet. The development at 300 Lyndon Road East, built
For many high-income households, the challenge is not earning enough. It is making sure the money they earn is being used deliberately. People in high-earning professions, from medical specialists and lawyers to engineers, senior executives and successful business owners, can all have excellent incomes and still carry substantial debt for
New Zealand is approaching an intergenerational wealth transfer of unprecedented scale. Across farms, family businesses and privately owned enterprises, a generation of owners is preparing to step back after decades spent building valuable assets. Their attention often falls on the sale itself, yet what follows can prove every bit as
Unison Group has published a 2025/26 Sustainability Update, sharing progress made over the past year with a maturing framework now guiding sustainability across the Group, and building on the foundation established through Unison Group’s first sustainability report in 2025. A key development this year is the Unison Group Sustainability Strategy,
For many CFOs, AI has moved beyond experimentation and into the budget. Copilot licences, ChatGPT and Claude subscriptions, training and governance are all adding up. As adoption increases, attention is shifting towards whether those costs are producing an adequate return. Not all AI returns are created equal Some returns are
Plenty of leaders who are mid-career or looking for change know exactly what’s wrong. They’ve read the books, done the podcasts, picked up a useful line or two from a seminar. What they haven’t done is turn any of it into a habit that survives a bad week. That gap,
Most mornings, Richard Kettle’s phone fills up with texts from farmers. Not enquiries. Not complaints. Orders. Drums of drench for Wairoa. Supplements heading to the Wairarapa. Fly control products bound for Gore. No quote requested, no price check, just farmers who’ve found a supplier they trust and are getting on
Kaweka Hospital. The stopbank rebuild after Cyclone Gabrielle. Napier’s newest suburb taking shape at Mission, above Taradale. If you have watched Hawke’s Bay change over the past nine years, there is a good chance you have been looking at local twin-city planning consultancy Stradegy’s work without knowing it. Stradegy, with
