The many factors to achieve affordability
One of the fundamental factors affecting the price of housing is the availability and cost of land. The land component makes up 30% to...
Grass roots strength
One of the themes that you often hear in the rugby union arena centres around ensuring “grass roots strength” — so that local players...
‘All I want for Christmas!’
For most of us in the construction industry we are charging towards Christmas 2005 at breakneck speed. In the past few years we have...
Not time to party just yet . . .
The residential building consent figures for March show a sharp improvement in the number issued. We have been experiencing a gradual and perceptible...