Mt Hobson Group featured in Australia's Metro magazine

Mt Hobson Group featured in Australia's Metro magazine

> Mt Hobson Group --- a top Auckland consultancy firm devoted to town planning and resource consents --- is pleased to announce that the firm and the firm's principal, Hamish Firth, has been featured in the latest edition of Metro Magazine, a quarterly magazine specialising in essays and articles, reviews, interviews and analysis of Australian, New Zealand and Asian features, shorts and documentaries.
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> The article is entitled “The Great Auckland Property Special”, and has been published in the October 2013 edition of Metro.
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> Amongst the interesting points made in the article about planning and designing the city of Auckland, are the following:
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> - The best way to earn a good return investment on a home is to buy in the less favorable areas in Auckland.
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> - The crisis of the undersupply of housing in Auckland compared to an ever growing demand.
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> - The once common "shoebox housing" boom of the last decade that has left Auckland with apartments as small as 12 square metres.
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> - The pitfalls of investing in the purchase of apartments for the purpose of rental properties.
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> - Buying a home versus buying an apartment in Auckland
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> - The unprecidented demand for building in Auckland: "Developers are confident, not in a cocky way, that deamnd is there for their product. By the end of next year, there will be 10 cranes on the horizon in the CBD. I am not going to use words like 'hot and bubble'," says Hamish Firth, principal, Mt Hobson Group, "but this feels like spring."
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> - The Unitary Plan's focus on high density housing: "There is likely to be keen interest from investors in remaining land in those areas. Demand is likely to be intense in Grafton and Newmarket, near Auckland University Campus on the Old Lion Breweries site. In 15 years, there'll be 15,000 people there," says Firth
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> - The government has mandated the building of 39,000 new homes in the next three years. "Its an unachievable goal given it would require a 100-unit apartment block to be build every three days, or 756 hectares of greenfield land to be ready for development every year. We can't click our fingers and an apartment building magically appears," says Firth.
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> Mr. Firth, is a well-known consultant in town planning, resource consents, and design. Mr. Firth has extensive commercial, indusrial, and residential resource management experience. This includes approval for 400+ unit apartment developments, sensitive heritage building restoration and conversions, residential and industrial land subdivisions and mixed-use developments.
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