[ad_1] Deconstructing Lancaster Park Stadium has cost $2.9 million less than expected. Christchurch City Council had budgeted $12 million for deconstructing the earthquake damaged stadium, but a final tally of the costs puts the bill for deconstruction at just over $9 million. “By managing the demolition ourselves we have been able to make significant savings…
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Share your views on our revised draft budget
[ad_1] Mayor Lianne Dalziel explains how the COVID-19 crisis has impacted on Christchurch City Council’s finances and invites public feedback on the organisation’s new draft budget. The world has changed dramatically over the past few months and we have all been affected in some shape or form by the COVID-19 pandemic. Many businesses and individuals…
Revised budget recommends lower rate rise
[ad_1] Christchurch City Council staff are recommending a revised budget that provides for an average residential rate rise of 2.23 per cent and an overall rate increase of 3.5 per cent. For an average house with a value of $508,608 that would mean paying an extra $1.19 a week, or $62.05 a year. Read the…
Tax Cuts For All – A GST Rise & Property Investors Hit Hard With New Tax Laws!
The New Zealand Budget 2010! For most of us this is something that we have been looking to for a while now. There has been plenty of hype running around this years budget and the cat has now been let out of the bag. Property tax has been hit hard with quite an increase and…
Property Property Property – The Market's Gone Mad
The Breaking News story today is about property again. Seems like lately everything is about property property property. Today’s headline states Property sales plunge in January – January house sales worst in nearly two decades… Sounds terrible doesn’t it! This story is quite a different picture that was being painted last month when the authorities…


