Amanda Gillies
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Queenstown, home to million-dollar views and now homes with an average $1.8 million price tag.
It's a milestone that might be good news for sellers, but bad news for many people who live there.
Hi, I'm Amanda Gillies, and today on The Detail, the real cost of soaring prices in our southern paradise.
So how does this happen in such a wealthy region?
To make sense of it all, today I talked to Queenstown Mayor John Glover, who is desperately trying to find solutions.
And he has fears for developers who are coming in from a flat-lined Auckland housing market, hoping to strike property gold down south.
Today I also chat to Vanessa Williams from realestate.co.nz.
But first, property journalist Nikki Preston, who has just done a detailed story on the situation for One Roof.
She says everyday hard-working Kiwis are being simply priced out of the Queenstown region.
Some desperate workers, she says, are even opting for bed hotspotting.
Wow, RNZ actually did a story about workers.
They arrive in Queenstown and they pretty much don't even unpack because they leave almost immediately because they can't find a place.
Local workforces and businesses, what impact is it having on them when they're trying to recruit staff?
That economist, he said that the only way everyday Kiwis could actually afford to live there nowadays is by compromising.
What did he actually mean by that?
It's been described as madness in the article that you've done.
Is that an accurate description and what led to that?
So how did Queenstown reach this level of madness and become something of a rich man's playground in the first place?
Vanessa Williams from realestate.co.nz says that over the past six years, the region has defied ever.
every housing trend and has rewritten the housing rulebook.
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