Fascinating Timeline For Gaze Property Services

Fascinating Timeline For Gaze Property Services

Gaze is a leading independent property services company with a vision to add value to their clients by providing innovative end to end property solutions and they offer advice and design for office fit outs and also provide project and cost management. Gaze operate two standalone companies, Gaze Property Solutions and Gaze Property Partnerships, with branches in Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch, who share the same innovative thinking and the same enthusiasm for new and different projects, as is amply demonstrated by their timeline outlined below.

Gaze was founded in 1982 and one of their first projects was to shift a small real estate company called Bayleys Real Estate from Papatoetoe into City Road, off Symonds St. Their success has since become legendary and Gaze grew rapidly during these years through their work with Bayleys, Chase Corporation, Equicorp, Landmark and other high flyers of the 80s.

Rapidly growing, they took on the top two floors of an eight storey building in Newmarket (now 277 Shopping Centre) and procured naming rights for the building that could clearly be seen from the Newmarket motorway viaduct. Today people still remember that high exposure and they attribute much of that to those naming rights. The same year Gaze opened an office in Wellington.

Along the way David Gaze had a personal invite through interactions with the YPO network, to attend a USA-led tour of Vietnam and thought that the Gaze expertise could work well there and quickly set up, converting old French Villas that had exceptional character on the outside but barely a cold water tap on the inside. Gaze added everything from full air-conditioning to marble kitchens, ready for the invasion of expats coming into the country and they also assisted companies re-opening their doors to Vietnam, such as Coca Cola, Johnson & Johnson and the American Consulate’s new premises.

The Gaze family moved overseas and David Gaze wanted to export organic food from New Zealand but the venture never reached its potential. Instead, they began to refurbish post-war commercial hospitality projects in Croatia and a large tourism development in Malta, using New Zealand and European expertise. As part of their continued ‘Corporate Social Responsibility', Gaze established a Memorandum of Agreement with the ‘International Trust Fund for Demining & Mine Victims Assistance’ (ITF). The concept was to purchase ‘land mined’ land in Croatia and Sarajevo, de-mine and sell it. The profits from the concept were then used to purchase more land and repeat the cycle.

David and his family returned to a New Zealand poised for great growth in the property sector and after the devastating earthquakes, they opened an office in Christchurch headed by Brendon Gaze. Although it has taken years of slow progress, Gaze now have a successful team based there completing earthquake repairs and shifting companies into their new premises. 2011 was also the year that Gaze Property Partnerships came to fruition.

Gaze is now focused on supporting their younger staff members to come through and take the company to the next level. The brand has been well-established and it’s now time to watch this space!

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