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Payouts for quake feed into house price rise
The top of the south property market saw the biggest rise nationally in prices last month. Nelson and Marlborough recorded the largest lift in prices from November to December, an 8.3 per cent increase. This saw the median price across the region rise by $27,000 to $352,000, according to the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (Reinz).
Read the full postLessons learned from the big flood
A year ago, hundreds of people across the Nelson region were forced from their homes as the worst flooding in a generation brought down slips, sending torrents of water and mud across farms and subdivisions, closing roads and stretching emergency services, local body staff and contractors. When the bill was totted up across the councils, the Earthquake Commission and insurance companies, it came to well over $50 million. BILL MOORE looks at what has been learned.
Read the full postSpate of whale stranding continues
The stranding of a baby sei whale in the Motupipi estuary is the fourth species of whale to be beached in Golden Bay in past seven weeks. After to getting a phone call on Sunday telling him of the live whale in the estuary, Department of Conservation Golden Bay programme manager for biodiversity Hans Stoffregen was surprised to find it was a sei whale. "Apparently there are few sightings of sei whales," he said.
Read the full postBlokarting South Island Champs
The Blokarting South Island Championships will be held in Nelson, 9-11 November at the Vortex Blokart Track (behind the A&P Showgrounds) in Richmond. This is an event not to be missed with plenty of action for spectators and competitors! Make sure you book your car hire from Pegasus Rental Cars Nelson, especially stationwagons and vans as these classes are booking out quickly! There will be a BBQ and social event with a long distance race planned for Rabbit Island on Sunday 11th November.
Read the full postBurlesque Craze sweeps Nelson
What is it about the new burlesque craze that's proving so popular with the women of Nelson? Naomi Arnold shimmies along to find out. ‘I'm a really shy person," Cheyenne says. This from the woman who's just spent the last half hour in the small, hot studio practising shimmying to the low purr of Henry Mancini's Pink Panther theme. But that's what burlesque can do to a girl.
Read the full postFestival team gets cracking
It’s all go at Founders Heritage Park this week as the technical crew for the Nelson Arts Festival gets the place ready for showtime. The festival, which opens this Friday, boasts performances by artists from as far afield as Canada, Korea, Chad, Australia and Germany, along with a host of talented Kiwis, and runs until October 28. The technical team of 20 has been hard at work turning the Energy Centre at Founders Heritage Park into the 350-seat TSB Bank Mainstage where many of the programme’s biggest acts will perform.
Read the full postRichmond drives leap in housing prices
Nelson Marlborough house prices showed the highest lift nationally between July and August at 9.6 per cent, according to the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand. The national median house price rose just 2.5 per cent or $9000 to $370,000 from July, while in the top of the south the 9.6 per cent lift saw the median price rise from $301,000 to $330,00. Reinz Nelson Marlborough spokesman Paul Hedwig said the region was seeing continual gradual growth.
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