Auckland (Auckland Council area), New Zealand
New Zealand's land register is a public record by statute and any title, naming its owners, costs NZ$8 from LINZ — but bulk owner names are licensed on a condition that forbids search-engine indexing, no open sales register exists, and Auckland Council's rating values are open only one property at a time on a site that refuses scripts, so the city's biggest holdings are read here from the owners' own audited valuations: Sylvia Park at $1.78 billion and the PwC Tower at $588 million.
8 buildings · 7 with an owner established · 30 sources · 7 tier A · 1 tier B · prepared 2026-10-06
New Zealand is a Torrens jurisdiction: Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) keeps the land titles register, which the Land Transfer Act 2017 makes a public record. Anyone can buy a record of title for NZ$8 through LINZ's Land Record Search — 'When a land record is bought, it will include the names of owners and other interest holders recorded on the title' — but the service 'does not let users search for an individual's name or do bulk searches'. Bulk owner names exist only under the LINZ Licence for Personal Data (applications reopened, page updated 19 May 2026), whose conditions include 'not allow the data to be indexed by any public internet web search engine', which rules them out of a public research site. Title geometry, title numbers and the number of owners per title are open (CC BY 4.0) with ownership deliberately stripped. There is no open register of sale prices: the open District Valuation Roll subset carries rating values (capital, land, improvements) for consenting councils only, and Auckland Council's own per-property valuation lookup is closed to automation. Foreign buyers are a spine fact: under the Overseas Investment Act 2005 'Overseas people usually cannot buy a house or land in New Zealand', and since the 6 March 2026 amendment holders of Active Investor Plus, Investor 1 or Investor 2 visas may buy or build a home worth NZ$5 million or more.
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The marquee buildings
The towers that set the tone of the core, and who holds them. A price is the price a document states, on the date it states — not an estimate of what the building is worth now.
| Building | Use | Owner | Owner type | Last price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PwC Tower and Commercial Bay 15 Customs Street West, Auckland CBD (Auckland Council area) Commercial Bay retail 17,228 m2 net lettable (Precinct FY26 valuation schedule); tower area not stated in the report |
Mixed use | Precinct Properties Group (NZX: PCT) Precinct's FY26 Annual Report carries PwC Tower (15 Customs St, Auckland) at an independently assessed value of $588.4 million at 30 June 2026, and Commercial Bay Retail as a consolidated investment property (JLL, 17,228 m2 NLA, 5.5% initial yield). Note 1.9(x): 'On 16 June 2026, Precinct announced the agreement to sell a 50% interest in PwC Tower ... and to establish a new investment partnership with PAG ... The sale remains conditional on Overseas Investment Office approval, with settlement expected to occur in the first half of FY27'. Precinct calls itself 'the largest owner and developer of commercial real estate in Auckland and Wellington'. No price for the 50% is given. |
REIT | —A |
| Deloitte Centre / One Queen Street 1 Queen Street, Auckland CBD (Auckland Council area) 11,921 m2 net lettable (office), Precinct FY26 valuation schedule |
Mixed use | Precinct Properties Group (NZX: PCT) — office component Precinct's FY26 Annual Report lists Deloitte Centre (1 Queen St, Auckland) at $177.0 million at 30 June 2026 (Colliers; 11,921 m2 NLA; 5.4% capitalisation rate), with the footnote 'Deloitte Centre valuation excludes the InterContinental hotel which was sold during the period'. Note 1.9(viii): 'On 30 January 2026, Precinct announced the settlement of the sale of the InterContinental Hotel at One Queen Street in Auckland for $180.0 million'; the buyer is not named in the report, so the hotel's owner is not established here. The building is described as 'a mixed-use asset containing office, hotel and hospitality uses'. |
REIT | —A |
| ASB North Wharf North Wharf, Jellicoe Street, Wynyard Quarter (Auckland Council area) |
Office | Precinct Pacific Investment Limited Partnership (PPILP) — Precinct 24.9%, with GIC Precinct holds 24.9% of PPILP; the balance is held with GIC (percentage not stated) Precinct's FY26 Annual Report, note 1.9(vii): 'On 27 January 2026, Precinct announced the acquisition of ASB North Wharf in Auckland by Precinct Pacific Investment Limited Partnership (PPILP) for $205.0 million as part of an existing partnership with global institutional investor, GIC. The acquisition settled on 29 May 2026.' Precinct's equity in PPILP is 24.9% (30 June 2026 and 2025), equity-accounted as an associate, with Precinct Properties Management Limited as manager. The vendor is Kiwi Property: its 2026 Annual Report records 'a conditional agreement to sell ASB North Wharf for $205.0 million', unconditional 30 April 2026 after OIO approval. Street number not stated in either report. |
Institution | NZD $205.0 million 2026-05 Announced 27 January 2026, settled 29 May 2026; Precinct FY26 Annual Report note 1.9(vii) A |
| Downtown Car Park Customs Street West / Lower Hobson Street, Auckland CBD (Auckland Council area) |
Land | Precinct Properties Group (NZX: PCT) Precinct's FY26 Annual Report, note 1.9(v): 'On 18 December 2025, Precinct announced the acquisition of Downtown Car Park in Auckland, with a final settlement payment of $115.8 million.' It is carried as a development property (CBRE) at 30 June 2026, and the report records that resource consent for the redevelopment was secured and that the project is intended to 'extend the Commercial Bay precinct'. The vendor is not named in the note; Auckland Council's own site, which would confirm the sale, returns 406 to automation, so the counterparty is not asserted here. |
REIT | NZD $115.8 million 2025-12 'final settlement payment' as stated in Precinct's FY26 Annual Report note 1.9(v); acquisition announced 18 December 2025 A |
| Sylvia Park Mount Wellington Highway, Mount Wellington (Auckland Council area) |
Mixed use | Kiwi Property Group (NZX: KPG) Kiwi Property's 2026 Annual Report values the 'Sylvia Park Precinct' at $1,784,490,000 at 31 March 2026 (various valuers, 5.94% capitalisation rate; $1,735,748,000 a year earlier), the largest line in its investment property schedule. The report states 'Kiwi Property owns and manages a high-quality real estate portfolio'; the precinct includes the shopping centre, Sylvia Park Lifestyle, the ANZ Raranga and Geneva House offices and the 295-apartment Resido build-to-rent block. Kiwi's property page calls it 'New Zealand's largest shopping destination with well over 200 retailers'. LynnMall, Kiwi's other Auckland centre, is carried at $218,500,000 on the same schedule. |
REIT | —A |
| Vero Centre 48 Shortland Street, Auckland CBD (Auckland Council area) |
Office | Kiwi Property Group (NZX: KPG) Kiwi Property's 2026 Annual Report carries the Vero Centre at $450,000,000 at 31 March 2026 (Colliers, 6.13% capitalisation rate; $456,500,000 a year earlier). The 2025 report records that a sale had been agreed and fell over: 'we were disappointed the conditions to complete the proposed Vero Centre sale were not met in August 2024', after which the company decided 'to wait for more transactional activity before proceeding with divestment'. Kiwi's property page describes '32 office levels' in 'the heart of Auckland's financial district, between High Street and the Britomart Precinct', completed in 2000. Floor count from the property page, values from the annual reports: tier B. |
REIT | —B |
| SkyCity Auckland (Sky Tower, casino, hotels and NZICC) Corner Victoria and Federal Streets, Auckland 1010 (Auckland Council area) |
Hotel | SkyCity Entertainment Group Limited (NZX/ASX: SKC) SkyCity's 2026 Annual Report, note 19(b): 'A memorandum of encumbrance is registered against the certificate of title for the Auckland casino in favour of Auckland Council. Auckland Council requires prior written consent before any transfer, assignment or disposition of the land' — a statement about SkyCity's own title. It records the Council as lessor of subsoil under Federal and Hobson Streets, and three encumbrances on the NZICC land including a Crown covenant. The precinct is 'anchored by the Sky Tower'; the NZICC opened 11 February 2026. Note 37: 99 Albert St and 62–68 Victoria St West sold for $74.5 million, unconditional 17 July 2026 (buyer not named). |
Public company | —A |
| Auckland Town Hall and Aotea Centre 301–303 Queen Street and 50 Mayoral Drive, Auckland CBD (Auckland Council area) |
Civic | Not established the source would not open Left blank deliberately. Tātaki Auckland Unlimited, the council-controlled organisation formed in December 2020 from ATEED and Regional Facilities Auckland, lists Auckland Town Hall, Aotea Square and the Aotea Centre among the venues it runs 'on behalf of Auckland Council' and says it 'is primarily funded by Auckland Council' — operation, not a statement of title. Every aucklandcouncil.govt.nz path tried returned HTTP 406 to scripts and to WebFetch, so the Council's own statement of ownership, and any rating-roll entry, could not be read. A record of title would settle it for NZ$8; this record does not infer it. |
Not established | —A |
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Auckland Council's rating valuations (capital value, CV) exist for every one of its 630,000 rating units and are values, not prices: a mass appraisal as at 1 May 2024, released June 2025. They are open per property on the Council's own lookup, but that host returns HTTP 406 to any script, the open LINZ District Valuation Roll subset holds 287,774 rows nationally against Auckland's 630,000 rating units, so the Council has evidently not consented to it, and the national roll (LDS table 113969) is government-only. The most valuable ground therefore has to be read from the owners' own audited valuations, which are independent assessments at balance date, not sale prices.
Who builds the houses
New-home building in this market: the volume, and the firms behind it. Ownership of a builder matters as much as its volume — a private-equity platform and a family firm behave differently.
New Zealand has no builder league table — nothing like Australia's HIA Housing 100 — and Stats NZ's consents series counts dwellings, not builders, so the figures below come from the builders' own filings and pages and are not comparable with one another. The market itself is measurable: 17,264 new dwellings were consented in the Auckland region in the year ended August 2026, up 19% (Stats NZ, CC BY 4.0). Who builds them is a mix of a listed conglomerate's housing arm that is up for sale, the Crown's social-housing agency, KiwiSaver-funded build-to-rent landlords and private townhouse builders, none of which publishes an Auckland unit count in an open document this record could read.
| Name | Type | Units (as the document states them) |
|---|---|---|
| Fletcher Living (Fletcher Building Limited, NZX/ASX: FBU) interest.co.nz, reading the appendix to Fletcher Building's half-year presentation: 223 units taken to profit, 81 fewer than the first half of 2025; divisional EBIT $12 million; 'just under $1 billion' of invested capital. The residential business was being marketed for sale, with 'Residential and Development strategic review ... underway'. Fletcher's own results page is client-rendered and its NZX attachments returned 'Not found' to scripts, so the primary document is not cited. National figure; Auckland share not stated. |
Public company | 223 units 'taken to profit' in 1H FY26 (six months to December 2025), down 27%A |
| Kāinga Ora – Homes and Communities The Crown's social-housing agency and New Zealand's largest residential landlord. Its site and its annual-report PDF are behind an Incapsula challenge that served 953 bytes of JavaScript to curl and nothing to WebFetch, so the report was not opened; the figure is as search results describe it and carries tier C for that reason. No Auckland breakdown is asserted. |
Government | 3,456 new homes delivered 2024/25 (national), per search summaries of the annual reportC |
| Kiwi Property Group (NZX: KPG) — Resido build-to-rent Kiwi's property list describes Resido as 'a build-to-rent residential community in the Sylvia Park precinct, featuring 295 quality apartments', opened in FY25 per the 2025 Annual Report. A landlord that builds to hold, counted here because it is one of the few Auckland residential developers whose unit count is stated in a filing-backed document. |
REIT | 295 apartments (Resido, Sylvia Park)A |
| Simplicity Living 'Simplicity Living – we're not agents, we're landlords. We're owned by funds managed by Simplicity, a KiwiSaver default provider. We build, rent, and maintain our homes.' The site names its Auckland communities but states no unit total on any page that opened (the communities page returned 404). |
Institution | not stated — communities at Reiputa (Mount Wellington) and Waiatarua (Remuera) renting in 2026A |
| Williams Corporation Private townhouse builder 'founded in 2012' by its two principals, with 'property consultants ... located in Christchurch, Auckland, Wellington and Singapore'. Its site describes itself as 'one of New Zealand's leading residential property builders' but publishes no unit count; it is listed to show the shape of the market, not its size. |
Private company | not statedA |
Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
No floor-area league table exists: Property Council New Zealand publishes none openly, and the three NZX-listed landlords with Auckland towers report values rather than square metres. Precinct's and Kiwi's annual reports and Stride's opened; Goodman's investor site (goodman.com and nz.goodman.com) is 403 to scripts and to WebFetch, and Auckland Airport's corporate site likewise, so the region's largest industrial landlord and its largest single landholder appear under 'unverified'. Auckland Council's own property arm, now the Auckland Urban Development Office, to which Eke Panuku's domain redirects, states that it owns a large portfolio but publishes no total on the page that opened.
| Name | Type | Portfolio (as the document states it) |
|---|---|---|
| Precinct Properties Group (NZX: PCT) 'The largest owner and developer of commercial real estate in Auckland and Wellington.' Auckland investment properties on its FY26 schedule: AON Centre (25,354 m2), HSBC Tower (31,611 m2), GHD House (13,681 m2), Commercial Bay Retail (17,228 m2), Deloitte Centre (11,921 m2); PwC Tower held for sale pending the 50% sale to PAG; Downtown Car Park and 256 Queen Street as development properties; 24.9% of PPILP (with GIC), which bought ASB North Wharf for $205.0m in May 2026. Group-wide NLA 225,887 m2 across Auckland and Wellington. |
REIT | $3.3 billion property portfolio at 30 June 2026 (incl. inventories and held-for-sale); $5.2 billion assets under managementA |
| Kiwi Property Group (NZX: KPG) 'Kiwi Property's total portfolio was valued at $3.01 billion as at 31 March 2026, reflecting a fair value decline of 0.9% for the full year.' Auckland assets on the schedule: Sylvia Park Precinct $1,784.5m, LynnMall $218.5m, Vero Centre $450.0m; ASB North Wharf sold for $205.0m (unconditional 30 April 2026). Also owns The Base (Hamilton) and the Aurora Centre (Wellington), and holds development land at Drury. |
REIT | $3.01 billion total portfolio at 31 March 2026A |
| Stride Property Group (NZX: SPG) with Investore, Industre and Diversified Stride Property Limited 'directly own[s] a portfolio of office and town centre assets', including its own building at 34 Shortland Street, Auckland, and cornerstone stakes in the Stride Products. FY26 Auckland moves: Investore bought Silverdale Centre from SPL ($114m) and Bunnings New Lynn ($43m) and Woolworths Greenlane ($35.9m); Industre (with JPMAM) holds industrial assets 'primarily located in the Auckland region' and committed ~$70m at 2-14 Patiki Road; SPL has a conditional agreement with Auckland Council for a 125-year pre-paid ground lease at North Wharf, Wynyard Quarter, for $17.5m. |
REIT | $2,424m 'SPL's weighted look-through portfolio value as at 31 March 2026'A |
| Auckland Council (Property Department / Auckland Urban Development Office) 'Auckland Council owns and manages a wide range of land and buildings. These are grouped into service and non-service properties, based on how they are used. The Property department manages Auckland Council's non-service property portfolio.' Eke Panuku's old domain now redirects here: the urban-regeneration and property functions 'have been brought together' inside the Council. Service properties (libraries, stations, water assets) sit with Auckland Transport, Watercare and the service departments. No asset count or value is stated on the page; aucklandcouncil.govt.nz itself is 406 to scripts. |
Government | not stated — 'a large property portfolio across Tāmaki Makaurau'A |
| Mansons TCLM Limited 'The three-generation Mansons TCLM family business is New Zealand's largest private developer', which 'both funds and builds its own developments' and whose model is 'developing huge Auckland CBD commercial premises ... with little or no tenant pre-commitment, leasing, then selling part-way through construction'. Its own pages mark 155 Fanshawe Street 'Sold Unconditionally June 2018', so it is counted as a developer, not a long-term landlord; the buyers are not named on the site. |
Family / private | develops, leases and sells — 155 Fanshawe St 15,354 m2 office NLA (sold June 2018); 136 Fanshawe St 22,938 m2; 50 Albert St 29,940 m2 proposedA |
| Goodman Property Trust (NZX: GMT) — Highbrook Business Park Goodman's investor pages on goodman.com and nz.goodman.com returned HTTP 403 to curl and to WebFetch, and its NZX attachments 'Not found' to scripts, so no annual-report figure is quoted and the row is tier C. The Highbrook site, which opened, carries an 'About Goodman' section and the park's size, but does not itself state the owning entity; search results describe GMT's portfolio at about $4.7 billion with Highbrook in a new Highbrook Fund partnership, which this record does not assert. |
REIT | Highbrook: '107 meticulously planned hectares', 'over 140 businesses, 6,000 people', East Tāmaki (highbrook.co.nz)C |
Looked for and not found
Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.
- Whether Auckland Council is among the territorial authorities in LINZ's open District Valuation Roll subset (table 114085): the subset holds 287,774 rows against Auckland's 630,000 rating units, so it almost certainly is not, but the table could not be queried without an LDS key.
- Auckland Town Hall and the Aotea Centre: Tātaki Auckland Unlimited runs them 'on behalf of Auckland Council', but no opened page states title; aucklandcouncil.govt.nz is 406 to scripts.
- Goodman Property Trust's ownership of Highbrook Business Park and its portfolio value (search results say about $4.7 billion): goodman.com and nz.goodman.com are 403.
- Auckland Airport's land holdings and investment-property portfolio: corporate.aucklandairport.co.nz is 403 and its NZX attachments 'Not found' to scripts.
- The Britomart precinct's owner (Cooper and Company, per common reporting): britomart.org is Cloudflare-blocked.
- The buyer of the InterContinental Auckland hotel at One Queen Street ($180.0 million, settled 30 January 2026): Precinct's report does not name it.
- The buyer of SkyCity's 99 Albert Street and 62–68 Victoria Street West ($74.5 million, unconditional 17 July 2026): not named in the annual report.
- The vendor of the Downtown Car Park to Precinct ($115.8 million final settlement, December 2025): not named in Precinct's note; Auckland Council's site could not be read.
- Kāinga Ora's homes delivered in Auckland: the annual-report PDF is behind an Incapsula challenge; the national 3,456 figure is from search results only.
- Fletcher Living's full-year FY26 unit count: only the half-year figure (223) could be read, via interest.co.nz.
- Auckland's total regional capital value after the 2024 revaluation: the RNZ report gives counts and percentage movements but no regional total.
- An Auckland-only title count from the LINZ title layer and the per-title owner-count distribution: needs an LDS key.
Sources
- Land record order fees — Record of title (current with diagram) $8; less commonly ordered records $52 — Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand · openA
- LINZ Licence for Personal Data — conditions for bulk property owner data (applications open; page updated 19 May 2026) — Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand · registrationA
- About Land Record Search — $8 per record; the land titles register is a public record under the Land Transfer Act 2017; no name or bulk searches — Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand · openA
- NZ Property Titles (LDS layer 50804) — title geometry and number of owners, ownership excluded; 2,455,129 features, published 3 October 2026 — Toitū Te Whenua LINZ, LINZ Data Service (Koordinates API) · openA
- NZ Properties: National District Valuation Roll (LDS table 114085) — open subset for consenting territorial authorities, 287,774 rows, owner and ratepayer fields excluded — Toitū Te Whenua LINZ, LINZ Data Service (Koordinates API) · openA
- Buying residential property to live in — who may buy a house in New Zealand (page updated 6 March 2026) — Toitū Te Whenua LINZ (Overseas Investment Office) · openA
- Reform of the Overseas Investment Act — Overseas Investment (National Interest Test and Other Matters) Amendment Act in effect 6 March 2026 — Toitū Te Whenua LINZ · openA
- Precinct Properties FY26 Annual Report (year ended 30 June 2026; financial statements dated 26 August 2026) — Precinct Properties Group (NZX: PCT) · openA
- Kiwi Property 2025 Annual Report (year ended 31 March 2025) — investment property valuation schedule — Kiwi Property Group (NZX: KPG) · openA
- Vero Centre — property page (32 office levels, Shortland Street) — Kiwi Property Group · openA
- SkyCity Entertainment Group Annual Report 2026 (year ended 30 June 2026) — note 19(b) Encumbrances, note 37 events after balance date — SkyCity Entertainment Group Limited (NZX/ASX: SKC) · openA
- About us — Tātaki Auckland Unlimited (council-controlled organisation; 'on behalf of Auckland Council') — Tātaki Auckland Unlimited · openA
- Taonga and venues — Auckland Town Hall, Aotea Centre, The Civic, Aotea Square — Tātaki Auckland Unlimited · openA
- Kiwi Property 2026 Annual Report (year ended 31 March 2026) — investment property schedule; ASB North Wharf sale note — Kiwi Property Group (NZX: KPG), via Publitas · openA
- Building consents issued: August 2026 (released 1 October 2026) — new dwellings consented by region, year ended August 2026 — Stats NZ Tatauranga Aotearoa · openA
- How Auckland Ratepayers Can Learn Their New Property Valuations (RNZ, 9 June 2025) — 630,000 properties revalued as at 1 May 2024 — RNZ, republished by Scoop · openA
- Fletcher Building made an after-tax loss of $11 million for the first half of the 2026 financial year; no update given on the pending sale of the company's residential business — interest.co.nz · openA
- All properties — owned and managed assets (Resido: 295 build-to-rent apartments at Sylvia Park) — Kiwi Property Group · openA
- Why Simplicity Living? — 'we're not agents, we're landlords ... owned by funds managed by Simplicity, a KiwiSaver default provider' — Simplicity Living · openA
- Kāinga Ora – Homes and Communities Annual Report 2024/25 (PDF) — Kāinga Ora – Homes and Communities · blockedC
- About us — Williams Corporation (founded 2012; consultants in Christchurch, Auckland, Wellington and Singapore) — Williams Corporation · openA
- Stride Property Group FY26 Annual Report (year ended 31 March 2026) — Stride Property Group (NZX: SPG) · openA
- Property Department — 'Auckland Council owns and manages a wide range of land and buildings' — Auckland Council, Auckland Urban Development Office (audo.co.nz) · openA
- About — 'New Zealand's largest private developer'; builds, leases, then sells — Mansons TCLM Limited · openA
- 155 Fanshawe Street, Wynyard Quarter — office NLA 15,354 m2; 'Sold Unconditionally June 2018' — Mansons TCLM Limited · openA
- Highbrook Business Park — '107 meticulously planned hectares', 'over 140 businesses, 6,000 people', East Tāmaki — Highbrook (Goodman) · openA
- Reports and presentations — Goodman Property Trust — Goodman (NZ) · blockedC
- robots.txt — 'you will not use any automated device, software, process or means to access, retrieve, scrape, or index any Realestate.co.nz Website' — realestate.co.nz · openA
- Residential property data gallery — Rent Reviews marked 'Restricted Content'; statistics 'as part of your membership' — Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ) · registrationA
- QV House Price Index — quarterly value movement by district; three months to August 2026 — QV (Quotable Value Limited) · openA