Source: Otago Daily Times / By Allison Rudd 17 Apr 2012
Excerpt—-“More people in Dunedin and the Queenstown-Lakes area are choosing to build new homes, local authority figures show. The number of building consents issued for new dwellings in Dunedin in the first three months this year were up 30% compared with the corresponding quarter last year, while consents for homes and apartments in the Queenstown-Lakes district rose 29% over the same period.”