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Amazon doubles NZ staff, moves into larger digs 11 May, 2021 05:45 AM 6 minutes to read Managing director Nick Walton opens Amazon Web Services' Commercial Bay office in downtown Auckland and reveals what's ahead for clients now they can meet face-to-face. Video / NZ Herald Managing director Nick Walton opens Amazon Web Services' Commercial Bay office in downtown Auckland and reveals what's ahead for clients now they can meet face-to-face. Video / NZ Herald Amazon Web Services has hired 50 local staff in the past year, taking its total complement to more than 100, AWS NZ managing director Nic...

New homes built for community’s vulnerable The new houses on Tuka Grove. Supplied photos. '); } else { // } As demand for rental properties in our region soars, our community’s most vulnerable are getting left behind. Low-income earners, older people, and those living with a disability or mental illness are struggling to find suitable housing, whether due to sheer unaffordability or lack of accessible properties available. Local charity Tauranga Community Housing Trust is working to change that by improving access to quality, sustainable housing.   As a regis...

Business digest: First Mortgage Trust CEO Tony Kinzett to retire 4 Apr, 2021 07:33 PM 11 minutes to read Got business news? Email businessBOP@nzme.co.nz Photo / Getty Images Bay of Plenty Times Michael Smith, chairman of First Mortgage Managers, the owner of First Mortgage Trust, has announced the pending retirement of CEO, Tony Kinzett, after 15 years at the helm of the organisation. Smith said Kinzett had led the business through significant change and growth in the last 15 years. "When Tony came into the role in 2006, the investor fund size was $280 million. By compariso...

A rental agent sees people desperate to find a home coming to his office in tears and a property developer predicts Tauranga will run out of land to build houses on in the next two years.

A DEVELOPMENT of new council homes has been completed behind schedule due to a number of delays. The scheme in Laxton Road, Taunton, includes eight one-bed flats in two three-storey blocks built on the site of disused garages. Building, which started in November 2019, was due for completion last autumn but was delayed by "a number of challenges", including the discovery of a service pipe and the Covid pandemic. Work was halted for six weeks following the onset of the coronavirus and contractors Classic Builders was forced to implement new safe working practices and extended working ho...