The Star: February 22, 2024
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Thursday <strong>February</strong> <strong>22</strong> <strong>2024</strong><br />
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Failed project manager’s<br />
home sale attracts offers<br />
DEADLINE SALE: Receivers are reviewing offers on Marc<br />
Findlay and Deborah Jane Robinson-Findlay’s family home<br />
in Ilam, after it was put on the market. Below – the couple<br />
in 2017.<br />
• By Chris Barclay<br />
THE ILAM home at the centre<br />
of a receivership drama for a<br />
failed project manager and his<br />
wife has drawn plenty of interest.<br />
<strong>The</strong> five-bedroom, three-bathroom<br />
property in Chevron Pl<br />
was put on the market by receivers<br />
Waterstone Insolvency with a<br />
sale deadline of 4pm Tuesday.<br />
It is the family home of Marc<br />
Findlay and Deborah Jane<br />
Robinson-Findlay, who were<br />
both placed into receivership in<br />
December.<br />
Waterstone Insolvency is acting<br />
on behalf of Auckland-based<br />
business finance lender Ignite<br />
Solutions Ltd.<br />
Other unidentified creditors are<br />
involved. Waterstone Insolvency<br />
would not reveal the scale of the<br />
debts incurred by the couple.<br />
Although it had a rateable<br />
value of $1.18 million in August<br />
20<strong>22</strong>, extensive renovations<br />
were undertaken after a consent<br />
to add two bedrooms and an<br />
ensuite was issued in 2021.<br />
“We have received a number<br />
of offers that the receivers are<br />
currently reviewing,” said Waterstone<br />
Insolvency consultant<br />
Peter Drennan.<br />
Findlay, a sole trading individual<br />
project manager, said he<br />
had not worked for six months, a<br />
factor leading to the home being<br />
sold.<br />
As reported in <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> last<br />
week, Findlay was adjudged<br />
bankrupt in 2017, leaving<br />
Christchurch tradespeople thousands<br />
of dollars out of pocket.<br />
Plumber Darren Maher is<br />
investigating whether he can<br />
lodge a claim for proceeds<br />
from the house sale, claiming<br />
he is owed $65,000 by Findlay<br />
for work carried out in a<br />
Manchester St apartment<br />
complex in 2017.<br />
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