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Kiwi Choose Property Over Passion, New Survey Reveals

A new survey's confirmed NZ's love affair with property, revealing some prefer browsing listings to romance

Last updated: 10 October 2025

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Unique home and pond view

Unique home surrounded by bush worth pond-ering

A quirky Kerikeri home beside a lily-pad pond offers tropical style, bush surrounds and treehouse charm.

It has been more than 30 years since Wendy Harvey and her late partner Wayne Edwards bought a very big field of onions and set about transforming it into a family property with a gracious home, airstrip and hangar. Photo: Barfoot & Thompson

Country home with private airstrip and hangar was once a field of onion

Former onion field transformed into a country estate with a private airstrip, hangar and pool.

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