After waiting seven long years to get the stage to themselves, New Zealanders finally have a buyers' market in Queenstown, with a significant drop in the numbers of United States, United Kingdom and Australian buyers, Adrian Snow says.
A $35 million pilot scheme aimed at helping modest-income, first-home buyers in Queenstown, Auckland, Wellington, Nelson and Christchurch was announced by the Government yesterday.
A $35 million pilot scheme aimed at helping modest-income, first-home buyers in Queenstown, Auckland, Wellington, Nelson and Christchurch was announced by the Government yesterday.
About half an hour after the Queenstown Chamber of Commerce yesterday asked the Queenstown Lakes District Council to tighten its purse-strings and review the proposed district rates rise, Destination Queenstown asked the council for another $1 million in funding.
The Government's approach to the proposed Affordable Housing Bill was flawed, offering only partial solutions to a "very complex and multifaceted issue", a select committee heard from the company behind Queenstown's Remarkables Park development.
The search for Israeli woman Liat Okin looks to be all but over after more disappointment at the weekend.
The open day for Alpine Aqualand - Queenstown's aquatic centre - on Saturday attracted 1200 Wakatipu residents who wanted to have a look at the community's newest asset.
Less than a dollar a day will enable locals to take a dip in the soon-to-be-opened Queenstown Aquatic Centre.
For some, scaling mountains, careening down scree slopes, negotiating slippery creeks and rivers - all at a pace verging on a sprint - is unimaginable.
Queenstown Lakes district councillors were yesterday asked to look into the eyes of a portrait hanging at the back of the council's chamber
Deng Chao may have travelled half way around the world, but if he thought he would fly under the radar in Queenstown, he was mistaken.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council will be asked to approve annual salaries for the Mayor and other elected representatives at its meeting in Queenstown tomorrow.
A ‘‘relatively low'' risk guarantee for a $100,000 five-year interest-free loan to allow restoration work to begin on three historic Arrowtown cottages will be discussed during tomorrow's Queenstown Lakes District Council meeting in the resort.
The ground has literally been moving at Millbrook over the past few months as Queenstown's Millbrook West development proceeds, stunning even the designers with the results so far.
Pilots at a Civil Aviation Authority seminar in Queenstown last night had a refresher course in fuel management, with presenter Andrew Warland-Browne.
THE cause of a fire which burned about 739ha on land near State Highway 6 between Kingston and Queenstown last month has been determined by a Dunedin fire investigator.
Queenstown-based Alpine Heli Ski Ltd has been granted the first concession from the Department of Conservation (Doc) to operate in public conservation land in Southland.
It has taken more than 12 months, the sale of some stock, multiple phone calls, one accident and one near miss, but 44 wandering deer which made themselves at home on farmer Chris Dagg's property were finally removed on Tuesday.
Some are calling it an eyesore and are horrified, but tourists spoken to on the Lake Te Anau waterfront on Saturday thought a 3m-high plastic and aluminum trout contraption was "pretty cool''.
Queenstown businessman and golf course owner Michael Hill and his wife Christine can add another trophy to their mantelpiece after winning the World Superyacht Award for a craft between 30m and 49.9m.
