HAMILTON

lor · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 7:52 am Post subject: HAMILTON

Hi everyone

, can you give me all your views please which you may have on the area of Hamilton? Don't know much about the area but would like to, please advise if you could on rental property prices, good areas, bad areas (if any), good schools etc... Thanking everyone.

richsadams · Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2004 3:13 pm Post subject: Hamilton

Hi Lor

You don't hear too much about Hamilton here. It's really a great place as far as my wife and I are concerned. Like Goldilocks said...it's not too big, but not too small either...it's just right.

We stayed there for a few days last year and really enjoyed ourselves. There are a ton of good restaurants. They have their own rugby team, plenty of pubs, gardens, museums, shops, a nice riverboat and the place is extraordinarily clean! Clapping

We looked at some properties and found everything from small flats for $160K NZD to very nice houses for more than $1MM+ NZD.

There are a fair amount of students attending the university and that lends itself to a little bit of "hipness", but nothing like Wellington...which was fine with us.

As far as rents...like buying, you can pretty much have anything you want...depending on how much you want to spend. Here's a great site that lists rents throughout NZ:

http://www.minhousing.govt.nz/tenancy/Market-Rent/market%20rent%20region.asp

Hamilton is in the Waikato (read: breathtaking river) area. Nice One

In any case, we found it a very pretty and friendly place. It's within an hour's drive of Auckland. They're completing a four to six lane highway in between so a lot of folks that work in South AKL live in just north of Hamilton. But it's far enough away from the "big city" to be considered "rural". Wink

The ocean is within easy reach as well as other areas inland.

It gets fairly cool in the winter...by North Island standards anyway, but overall, pretty nice. We'd recommend having a look! Yes

Hope that helps a bit! Mr. Green

lor · Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2004 5:25 am Post subject:

Cheers Rich,

Sounds nice, anywhere must be better than dirty old Lancashire here in the UK!! I looked at the website which you gave me, very good advice on rental prices thanks. As for the cool winter, that does not bother us we are use to bad weather and being cold!!!

Thanks again.

richsadams · Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2004 9:13 am Post subject: Hamilton

Cheers Lor!

No worries. Yes

Just let us know where you end up!

JCM · Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2004 5:49 pm Post subject:

leroy · Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2004 4:45 pm Post subject: Re: HAMILTON