Tasbar is the development vehicle behind four Auckland projects — Unilodge Whitaker at 5 Whitaker Place, Waverley at 16 Waverley Street, Anzac Avenue in the university precinct and The Airedale at 79 Airedale Street. We hold the development role on our own account rather than managing for a client: we source the site, arrange, or design, plan and consent it, then deliver or sell on.
The portfolio
Auckland, New Zealand
Purpose-built student accommodation at the centre of Auckland's university quarter. Delivered by Tasbar with the development role held in-house — site, funding, design team and construction all carried to completion.
The larger of the two delivered projects: 360 student rooms on Waverley Street, developed by Tasbar and built for long-hold ownership rather than sale.
Our design and planning job, end to end: feasibility, urban design and planning through to resource consent for a 21-level student accommodation building on the narrow site between Anzac Avenue and Beach Road — then sold before construction. The buyer built it out and completed in 2020 as a 488-bed student building.
79 Airedale Street, in the university quarter: we carried the feasibility, the scheme design and the planning work, and the site went to market consented with concept plans. It was built out as The Airedale — 17 levels of 93 apartments, completed in 2020 and now let as serviced apartments.
How we work
We source the sites ourselves rather than waiting on a client brief, and we carry the development risk that comes with that.
Funding is arranged and managed by us through to settlement, with our New Zealand entities holding the assets.
Design team, consultants, builder and handover — one continuous line of responsibility from acquisition to completion.
Contact
c/- Neovia Auckland Limited
Level 10, 34 Shortland Street
Auckland Central, Auckland 1010
New Zealand
