Finally, Auckland has a residence to accommodate those who enjoy the very best of everything! St Mary’s Residence in St Mary’s Bay Auckland has classic harbour-views, is only minutes from downtown and with it’s chic heritage decor provides an ideal escape from the ordinary in every way. This Villa offers a unique full service home-away- from- home experience in the style and comfort of the most luxurious and refined Hotels and private Villa’s in the world.  The St Mary’s Residence manifests as an example of the diverse cultural and modernist trends that have embraced the fast growing city of Auckland since the turn of the century. Auckland’s population,now over 1.5 million, is a vibrant ethnic mix which tastefully blends with the British /European influences of its beginnings in the 1800’s. This year St Mary’s Bay and adjacent Herne Bay, two of Auckland’s  pioneer  suburbs, have become the first ” two million dollar” median house price...

Queenstown, in the far south of the south island of New Zealand in the Otago district, lies in the heart of an almost untouched eight million square kilometer wilderness. It is situated at the southern end of the beautiful, 291 square kilometer Lake Wakatipu that was gouged out by glaciers during the last ice age and is fed by the Kawarau and Shotover Rivers.  Lying at latitude of 45° south, with scarcely any large cities or polluting industry for thousands of miles in any direction right around the globe, and only the continent of Antarctica to the south, Queenstown has some of the most pure air in the world. The European settlement of the Otago area has a fairly recent history that came about after the discovery of gold in the 1860s.  Of course though, there have also been various native New Zealand inhabitants with the Waitaha, Moriori and Maori...