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Wednesday <strong>December</strong> <strong>13</strong> <strong>2023</strong> <strong>Selwyn</strong> <strong>Times</strong><br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
NEWS 3<br />
<strong>Selwyn</strong> lifestyle attracting Aucklanders<br />
• By Nikki Preston<br />
AUCKLANDERS are on the<br />
move, coming to <strong>Selwyn</strong> in their<br />
droves for a better work-life<br />
balance.<br />
More New Zealanders moved<br />
to Canterbury than any other<br />
region for the second year in a<br />
row – 11,000 people in the year<br />
ending June <strong>2023</strong>, including<br />
3000 who moved from elsewhere<br />
in New Zealand.<br />
Of that 11,000, 31 per cent had<br />
moved to <strong>Selwyn</strong> and 12 per cent<br />
to Waimakariri, a combined 43<br />
per cent. That<br />
was almost<br />
as many as<br />
had moved to<br />
Christchurch –<br />
44 per cent.<br />
Christchurch-<br />
NZ economic<br />
Sophie<br />
Jones<br />
analyst Sophie<br />
Jones said the<br />
type of migrant<br />
varied across different parts of<br />
Canterbury, with <strong>Selwyn</strong> and<br />
Waimakariri attracting people<br />
from other parts of the country<br />
and Christchurch capturing people<br />
moving from overseas.<br />
With 11,000 Aucklanders leaving<br />
their city, Jones said it was<br />
expected a significant number<br />
had chosen <strong>Selwyn</strong> and Waimakariri<br />
to set up home.<br />
Ray White Rolleston business<br />
BETTER LIFESTYLE: Aucklanders are leaving the big city behind, settling in <strong>Selwyn</strong>.<br />
Inset – facilities such as Foster Park are a drawcard.<br />
PHOTO: NZ HERALD<br />
owner Brendan Shefford<br />
said they were seeing a<br />
lot of immigrants who<br />
had initially settled in<br />
Auckland now relocating<br />
to <strong>Selwyn</strong>.<br />
People have also relocated<br />
from the Hawke’s<br />
Bay, Wellington, Waikato<br />
and Taranaki, but to a<br />
much lesser extent.<br />
About 50 per cent of those<br />
moving in were from the<br />
North Island and had<br />
been transferred down<br />
for work, he said.<br />
In <strong>Selwyn</strong>, Rolleston<br />
had seen the biggest<br />
growth in out-of-towners,<br />
followed by Lincoln and<br />
Brendan Farringdon, according<br />
Shefford to figures from ChristchurchNZ.<br />
Shefford said Rolleston still offered<br />
better value for money than<br />
Auckland and even Christchurch.<br />
Those moving from Auckland<br />
could often trade their one or<br />
two-bedroom unit for a brandnew<br />
three to four-bedroom,<br />
two-bedroom freehold home in<br />
Rolleston for about $800,000.<br />
The same brand-new home<br />
would be about $900,000 in Wigram<br />
and the price crept up the<br />
closer they got to the CBD.<br />
“You get more value for<br />
money,” he said.<br />
“Instead of driving an hour<br />
and a half in Auckland each day<br />
. . . they will jump in the car,<br />
and they will be in the middle of<br />
town and parked up and in the<br />
office in 30 minutes.”<br />
People were drawn to the district<br />
because they wanted more<br />
space and it had some great new<br />
facilities such as Foster Park in<br />
Rolleston.<br />
Median rental prices had<br />
grown 9.8 per cent in Canterbury<br />
in the year ended September<br />
<strong>2023</strong> with the median rental<br />
price rising from $455 to $500<br />
per week.<br />
The shift in house prices had<br />
been less dramatic with the<br />
average house price in the three<br />
months to November showing a,<br />
3 per cent in <strong>Selwyn</strong> and 0.9 per<br />
cent in Waimakariri, according<br />
to CoreLogic’s house rice Index.<br />
– NZ Herald<br />
merry christmas<br />
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when to water<br />
your garden<br />
For smart watering tips visit:<br />
selwyn.govt.nz/watersense<br />
Don’t water<br />
Check weather conditions<br />
(avoid watering on hot days<br />
– overcast is best)<br />
Water wisely
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