Mt Hobson Group featured in Australia's Metro magazine
Mt Hobson Group featured in Australia's Metro magazine
> Mt Hobson Group --- a top Auckland
consultancy firm devoted to town planning and resource
consents --- is pleased to announce that the firm and the
firm's principal, Hamish Firth, has been featured in the
latest edition of Metro Magazine, a quarterly magazine
specialising in essays and articles, reviews, interviews and
analysis of Australian, New Zealand and Asian features,
shorts and documentaries.
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> The article is
entitled “The Great Auckland Property Special”, and has
been published in the October 2013 edition of
Metro.
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> Amongst the interesting points made
in the article about planning and designing the city of
Auckland, are the following:
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> - The best
way to earn a good return investment on a home is to buy in
the less favorable areas in Auckland.
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> - The
crisis of the undersupply of housing in Auckland compared to
an ever growing demand.
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> - The once common
"shoebox housing" boom of the last decade that has left
Auckland with apartments as small as 12 square metres.
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> - The pitfalls of investing in the purchase of
apartments for the purpose of rental properties.
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Buying a home versus buying an apartment in
Auckland
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> - The unprecidented demand for building
in Auckland: "Developers are confident, not in a cocky way,
that deamnd is there for their product. By the end of next
year, there will be 10 cranes on the horizon in the CBD. I
am not going to use words like 'hot and bubble'," says
Hamish Firth, principal, Mt Hobson Group, "but this feels
like spring."
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> - The Unitary Plan's focus on high
density housing: "There is likely to be keen interest from
investors in remaining land in those areas. Demand is
likely to be intense in Grafton and Newmarket, near Auckland
University Campus on the Old Lion Breweries site. In 15
years, there'll be 15,000 people there," says
Firth
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> - The government has mandated the building
of 39,000 new homes in the next three years. "Its an
unachievable goal given it would require a 100-unit
apartment block to be build every three days, or 756
hectares of greenfield land to be ready for development
every year. We can't click our fingers and an apartment
building magically appears," says Firth.
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Mr. Firth, is a well-known consultant in town planning,
resource consents, and design. Mr. Firth has extensive
commercial, indusrial, and residential resource management
experience. This includes approval for 400+ unit apartment
developments, sensitive heritage building restoration and
conversions, residential and industrial land subdivisions
and mixed-use
developments.
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