Harcourts Ilse Evans No ‘Doom & Gloom’ Predictors

As Ilse Evans puts it, “It all feels a little back to normal in the real estate world, or just about. Open home numbers are confident and buyers are still looking and making buying decisions. There are always those one or two buyers that can’t wait to tell us that the market is about to come crashing down and we should all hide for cover (unless our owners will happily take a massive drop and then they are in)”.

Innovative Home Radiant Heating & Cooling Solution has hit the New Zealand market

Every year, 1600 deaths are contributed to insufficiently warmed homes in winter in New Zealand. In the past it was more a luxury to have central heating installed in the home, but this was just limited to heating. A heating and cooling solution new to New Zealand has just hit the market, which could make many Kiwi homes warmer in winter and comfortably cooler in summer.

Ground-breaking test shows new low-damage New Zealand construction practice can withstand earthquakes

A team of QuakeCoRE researchers have just completed a significant test of New Zealand building construction that shows new design methods will withstand future earthquakes without the damage observed during the Christchurch and Kaikoura earthquake sequences. A two-storey precast concrete building was tested on one of the world’s largest and most flexible shake table arrays.