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Whangaparāoa School found a unique, contactless way to give students a send off at the start of the school holidays. Its Honk and Wave Parade, held on Friday, October 1, saw staff decorate their cars and form convoys, honking as they drove past the homes of their students – from Gulf Harbour to Ōrewa. Children decorated their letterboxes and stood out the front holding signs. Students attending school under lockdown decorated the fence and waved placards. Balloons and the school emblem, the orca, were everywhere. Around 50 cars took part. Organiser, deputy principal Jo Kember, says they wanted to end the term with a bit of fun. “We congratulate the children on a great term of learning under difficult circumstances,” she says.
Coast property reaches MILLION $$ median All suburbs on the Hibiscus Coast now have a median property value of more than $1million highlighting that, despite the amount of development, first home buyers still face an enormous challenge to get on the property ladder here.
On the other hand, those who already own property have cause to see the ongoing price gains, despite Covid-19, the snap lockdown and border closures, as positive.
The figures are in financial services company CoreLogic’s Mapping the Market report, released last month. The report uses an automated valuation model to measure the median value of every residential property in NZ, every week – a method CoreLogic says provides a highly accurate view of how property values change over time. The data provides a useful tool when it comes to estimating the cost of a typical
property in a particular suburb.
The report maps the percentage increase in value over 12 months – describing it as a “broad-based and frankly rampant upturn”. A year ago, only the lifestyle blocks and farms of Dairy Flat, along with residential property in Silverdale/Millwater and Matakatia, had a median value of more than $1m. Since then, the increasing value
of property has tipped the other nine local suburbs over the $1m median mark. The biggest gains were in Stillwater, with a 24.9 percent increase, Manly and Hatfields Beach (23 percent); and Ōrewa, 22 percent. It brings the Coast in line with the Auckland-wide figures. Only 37 Auckland suburbs, of a total of 208, have a median value of less than $1m. continued p2