Buy, build and renovate with the numbers in front of you
Suburb prices and rents, step-by-step guides for your own home, how bigger buildings come together in New Zealand, and free design tools that check your work as you draw.
Property
Auxuro Property
Official median weekly rents for every district and suburb in New Zealand, from MBIE rental bond data, with trends and a yield and repayment check.
Explore suburb rents LandlordsHealthy Homes check
Check a rental against the five Healthy Homes standards and see which work fixes each failing item.
Start the checkResidential guides
Build & renovate handbook
Your own project, step by step: consent paths, timber and fixing specs, paint and flooring, suppliers and how-to videos, with a checklist you can make your own.
Open the handbook Healthy, low-energy homesPassive House
The five principles, the PHI standards and classes, and how certification works in New Zealand, including retrofits.
Read the guideConstruction guides
How different kinds of buildings are designed, consented and built in New Zealand. These are guides, not property listings.
AU / NZ construction map
Who does what at each stage of a large project, from business case to CCC, and the firms behind major NZ projects.
Open the map Multi-unitApartment building guide
Sound between units, fire, weathertightness and the body corporate’s long-term maintenance plan.
Read the guide EducationSchool building guide
Ministry of Education DQLS targets for CO₂, ventilation, acoustics and comfort in learning spaces.
Read the guide HealthHospital building guide
Importance Level 4, AusHFG and Health NZ guidance, medical gases and building services that can’t stop.
Read the guide IndustrialWarehouse building guide
Sprinklers for high storage, seismic racking, slabs and yards, and the compliance schedule.
Read the guide CommercialOffice building guide
H1 for large buildings, NABERSNZ and Green Star, and the changing earthquake-prone building rules.
Read the guide Data centresData centre cooling guide
Heat load formulas, sizing calculators, cooling schematics and ASHRAE envelopes, with an ANZ data centre project database.
Open the handbookDesign tools
DuctPlan
Ducted heat pumps and heat recovery ventilation. Room loads, airflow and duct sizing, then a priced quote with customer follow-ups.
Open DuctPlan PlumbingHydroPlan
Cold and hot water, sanitary drainage and stormwater for NZ and Australian houses, checked against AS/NZS 3500 and NZBC G12, G13 and E1.
Open HydroPlan EnergyEnergyPlan
Insulation R-values, heat loss, heating and cooling loads, HVAC sizing and airtightness, with NZ H1, NCC and Passive House checks.
Open EnergyPlan ElectricalElectrical plan
Lights, switches, power points and circuits. Maximum demand, cable and RCD sizing, smoke alarms and wet-area zones to AS/NZS 3000.
Open Electrical planGuides and tools give design-stage information. Check final designs against the current Standards and have them reviewed by a registered professional. Property figures are indicative and sourced on each page.