52 Chesney Street, Invercargill

Southland's commercial hub, Invercargill, is one of New Zealand's most beautiful and precious cities. As the gateway to some of the country's most picturesque landscapes and exciting outdoor activities with remarkably long daylight hours in summer and the most extraordinary night sky offering regular vistas of the spectacular Aurora Australis, the southern lights, it's no wonder that more and more Kiwis are deciding to call this long-established city home.

The gold rush originally drew settlers to Invercargill in the 1860s. While gold nuggets might be harder to come by these days, astute investors still have the opportunity to seek their fortune from the land here by investing in a new home at Chesney Mews that will work almost as hard as those gold miners did all those years ago with much more reliable results. Invercargill was expertly planned in the 19th century by a surveyor with a vision, John Turnbull Thomson, who clearly had high expectations for the city. The main streets are 40m wide, and the city's grid structure is incredibly effective, making it the envy of gridlocked Auckland and Wellington residents. As a result, it doesn't take long to get anywhere in town, but residents of Chesney Mews will enjoy having major services and employers like Southland Hospital and Southern Institute of Technology just 5 minutes from their front door, as well amenities like the immaculate grounds of Queens Park just 10 minutes away.

With heavy investment in the city's Infrastructure and Development happening right now, including $180m of improvements to the city centre, a $65m upgrade to the museum and construction of a $50m data centre, Invercargill is only set to grow. Enormous and ambitious projects like the stunning new Invercargill Central shopping centre are further helping to boost the already impressive local economy and GDP while creating an expected 400- 500 new jobs at the same time.