McIsaac said she was looking for a smaller home after her husband died last year, and jumped at the opportunity to move into one of the units. “Being alone with a bigger property to look after, it just made sense to downsize. So this has been amazing, for me.” Brya Ingram/Stuff Picton Health Trust trustee Nigel Weetman, left, receives the keys to three new houses from builder Rob Blick. The trust’s houses were intended to offset a shortage of small, affordable housing in Picton. Marlborough was one of eight regions to reach a record median April house price last month, at $627,000, the latest figures from Real Estate Institute New Zealand showed. The top sale for the region was a house in Waikawa that sold for $2.2 million.